Brady Corbet
Brady Corbet
Brady James Monson Corbetis an American actor and filmmaker. Corbet is known for playing Mason Freeland in the film Thirteen, Brian Lackey in the film Mysterious Skin, Alan Tracy in the 2004 film Thunderbirds, and Peter in the 2008 film Funny Games. He has made guest appearances on many television shows. He made his feature film debut with The Childhood of a Leader and won Best Debut film and Best Director award at 72nd Venice International Film Festival...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 August 1988
CityScottsdale, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.
Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.
Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.
It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.
I know that I'm very comfortable with my body. I'm not in insane shape or anything. I run, but I'm not a gym guy or anything. I wish I had washboard abs, but I don't.
I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject in the photograph.
After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.
I'm really bad at tests of any kind, so I'm bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when I'm under the gun, I just fail.
I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.
I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.
I look pretty different. Luckily for me, I don't get harassed or anything like that.
To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.