Adrien Brody showed up for the LA premiere of Iron Man 2 last night, trying very hard to convince us that he’s cool. Still cool, or was he ever cool? I’ve never really had the hardcore Brody love that some women have or had, but at one time I did like him and root for him and wish him well. Those general hopes for his good future have sort of been destroyed, just because he started to seem like a tool. Maybe it all fell apart for him when his then-girlfriend Elsa Pataky dumped him for Olivier Martinez about a year ago. Olivier and Elsa are still together, by the way, and Adrien hasn’t dated anyone high-profile since.
Anyway, Adrien showed up at the premiere, and he was sporting this… thing on his face. Lainey at LaineyGossip sort of lit into Adrien for sporting what she termed as “doucheface”. As in, “he definitely fails with that f-cking growth on his face, a douche growth no matter where you are, what part of the world. That sh-t belongs on DoucheFaces. It’s the universal sign of DoucheFace. Adrien is a DoucheFace. And while he’ll try to convince it’s some kind of Euro styles, please let’s all remind him that he owns a FAKE CASTLE in Upstate New York. There is no Euro happening here. There is no Jude Law. There is simply DoucheFace and Done. Done. Dead. Over.” Can you tell she once loved him? That’s the way I would handle it if someone I loved turned up looking like a douche face, too. Say, Gerard Butler. If Gerry ever came to an event with that landing strip facial hair, I would probably be done with him too. It’s gross.
So… here’s my question: Was Adrien Brody ever cool? Or did we just now notice how uncool he is?
Adrien in LA on April 26, 2010. Credit: WENN.
I’d hit that. No question.
So not cool
He’s cool in his own way. It has more to do with the movies I’ve seen him in than what he’s wearing. He’s way too skinny for me, and he smokes, but I maintain he’s still got some cool. And he needs to shave that off his face.
What is with that JACKET? Is it snakeskin?
I am getting such a pimp vibe from these pics
what’s that jakcet made of? gross. he’s chanelling Buffalo 66….
He was hot for ten seconds on the Oscar podium.
Seemed like he was for a while, maybe he’s just trying to hard to get “it” back. It’s not working.
No, he’s always been a douche. And it’s time to give that Oscar back. One hit wonder.
I think he’s handsome, not cool and I LOVE his nose!
Oh noes! Adrien’s gone all “Blue Steel”
Yes. I love his nose too.
I love this man and would go live in his fake castle in a heartbeat! The jacket-not so much.
i think thats with his looks he would have made a good joker he has that classic joker look
I’ve always thought he was handsome. That facial hair looks dumb as hell, though. He could do with a face full of stubble, it’d be a good look for him. Would make him look more manly and less like that one guy in high school who could grow a goatee and thought he was hot shit.
Never, ever, never.
I never saw his appeal, and still don’t.
Didn’t that nasty pap that Britney dated have the same facial hair going on? FAIL.
He is HOT and sweet and I have NO idea what you’re talking about. I LOVE the man.
I thought he was cool till he did a diet coke commercial. Then I just wondered why he would bother with something like that. The Pianist was good, but then did anyone see that movie with Kira Knightly? Awful!
Never gotten the appeal, never will.The oscar kiss with Halle Berry was obnoxious, and even more so was his numerous reenactments. See how funny I am!? How edgy?! Remember this?! Good times, huh?!
He could be wearing a shirt that says “I f— sheep” and I’d still be all over him like a cheap suit. He’s hawt!
I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt & assume he got distracted while shaving & forgot to go back & get those few hairs.
agree with Kolby. still hot. that landing strip is removable. his hair looks great. huge improvement with the hair.
of course he is hot! and I loved to see him kissing halle berry at oscars
Nope. He has charming moments, and the nose is fine with me, but overall, he’s creepy.
I think the sunglasses make him look more like a douche than the landing strip.
While I have definitely enjoyed AB in the past, this look is way too Scott Baio for me. Please, stop the madness!
It’s been over for me since the unwanted Oscar kiss, to put it lightly. In extreme terms, sexual harassment. If someone did that to you at a work function where they were giving out awards, you’d be pissed, not laughing about it.
Anyway, he’s a dweeb and always has been.
I’ve always been weirdly attracted to him. He is soo not my type, and I want to remodel his nose soooo bad, but I would hit it in a NY second.
p.s. @manda, The Jacket was a shitty movie, but I loved him in it.
Yikes. No, No and No.
I guess the hair on his chin is to distract from his large nose, he looks cool. He’s a great actor I loved him in “The Pianist”.
From Madrid:
Adrien dumped Elsa Pataky.
She is a famewhore and staged the pictures with Olivier, who is with beautiful Goya Toledo.
Then she tried to stage picture with Pau Gasol.
She, desperate, advertisimg ice cream and dishwashers.
Be more accurate
Trying too hard (snakeskin blazer?) is never cool. I should know, I’m not cool either : )
No, he never was and never will be. I’ve never understood his appeal at all.
He is and always has been hot. The hair is working – the sunglasses are working – the landing strip is unfortunate but as stated above removable. Totally hot. And cool.
He looks like this guy who used to live below me in our duplex. He would hit on me everyday, and when I finally told him that I was never, never going to go out with him, he pulled a, “whatever, you’re ugly anyways!” From that point on he would make fat jokes when I walked by. (I’m not fat.)
Now I can’t help but think that maybe that WAS Adrien Brody.
He was sublime in The Pianist. And for some reason his career didn’t really take off. Maybe it still will.
Adrien forever owns cool. He rocks at life. Plus he’s buddies with Gerard so he can’t be bad.
i actually don’t mind the little facial hair thing on him… i DO mind the weird jacket and the glasses, but the little goatee thing? eh, it’s alright… although, i do agree that for most guys its the kiss of death. the jacket and the glasses and the green shirt are kind of off, but it’s also possible it just didn’t photograph well. i don’t know how many Oscar and Grammy’s dresses have looked like total crap at home only to have the interviewers from the red carpet talk about how great it was in person.
he gets a pass in my book if only for The Brothers Bloom and The Darjeeling Limited. i think he looks like he’s gained a little bit of weight, which is good for someone so tall and lanky. m y guess is that he’s been out of the lime light for a while, maybe since the breakup a year ago, and he was probably a little nervous and overshot the whole outfit. it’s probably a really nerve wracking type of buildup…you know you have to go…what do you wear……so on and so on
HE LOOKS LIKE A HORSE.
I’d definitely hit that!
Luv him. Always have, always will.
He’s so cool, he’s hawt. I’d waaaaaay hit that.
Good actor, unusually attractive, would watch him in a movie if I wanted to see it anyway. I don’t get the hate, so what he has bad facial hair? So does Johnny Depp and he’s my epitome of cool depsite that and his wackily wonky dress sense. I thought the Halle Berry thing was lame at the time, but I don’t need to think an actor is the coolest to enjoy their performances – I think Jude Law and Mickey Rourke, among others, are probably twats of the highest order but I’d still happily watch them if they’ve given a good performance. Even the actors I find the most irritating, ok with rare exception but it has to be a pretty major crime of taste – fickle people, almost feel sorry for the celebs!
poor guy! he had his heart broken just last year… (i mean, buy a castle for your gorgeous girlfriend, when you’re sexy-in-a-weird-looking-way-at-best, and then she dumps you for OLIVIER MARTINEZ??!) to me it looks like he’s trying to be brave and look like he’s “back” or doing fine or whatever. i dunno. maybe i just pity cuz he’s ugly-hot, but he seems totally sweet and i really think he’s seriously talented.
I’d rather hit it with Olivier Martinez, that man is sex on wheels. And so is that hot French actor on Brothers and Sisters, YUMMO!
He killed it in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam.
His jacket is gross ‘crocodile vibes’ but i’d still tap that
He is extremely talented & gifted actor. No one is perfect. quit picking on him. Does he really have to be cool? Why can’t you let him be himself.
No.
I wouldn’t hit that. He’s not my type.
But I think he’s an extraordinary actor. I just wonder why he did so many films beyond his talent after The Pianist. Was he in desperate need of money or something? I refuse to believe that he took part in shitty films like The Jacket, The Village, Hollywoodland and Cadillac Records voluntarily. He could’ve done so much better than that.
Okay,
VikGin, patron saint of Adrien Brody, says, “Haters fall back!” (In a spirit of jocularity, of course)
I LOVE Adrien! My BFF and I had a joint crush on him in high school. He’s really a talented actor whom I like all the more because he didn’t go down the famewhore route after winning his Oscar. I’m really turned on by the fact that he’s not conventionally attractive. I suppose that with me one has to have a limb missing, or in his case a crooked nose! Anyway, my favorite role of his was the character he played in this small indie film some years back called “Love the Hard Way”. Team Adrien!
@Sylvia,
You made my day because I really did not like that woman.
For me he’s got it.
It could be his magnetic eyes, which he’s hiding so maybe that’s why so many people aren’t fans of these photos. I can overlook the adolescent goofy grin..or the landstripe goatee..Actually like the goofy grin..:)
plus he’s nice n tall.