The Brutalist: Felicity Jones on the Oscar-nominated epic... and its long run time 

Felicity Jones stars alongside Adrien Brody in the tale of Holocaust surviors who come to America. She tells Aoife Barry about her role in the widely-praised film 

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist. 

When it comes to films about male genius, you might fear the female characters will get relegated to a wafer-thin role. Not so in The Brutalist, the new Brady Corbet-directed epic film about a fictional Hungarian architect called László Tóth (Adrien Brody).

László is a man of huge talent, but the movie ensures his journalist wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) has as much complexity as her husband. As Jones tells The Examiner, the key to this was gender balance - the script was written by Corbet and his wife, filmmaker Mona Fastvold. “They were so keen for all of the characters to feel truly wondrous and strange and complex,” she enthuses.