Adrien Brody Refused To Leave The Stage During Oscars Speech: ‘Turn The Music Off’

Actor Adrien Brody refused to leave the stage after giving his Best Actor acceptance speech at Sunday night’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony.

The star of “The Brutalist” heard the prompt music indicating his time was up, but he stopped and instructed the people behind the scenes to turn it off. 

“I’m wrapping up. Please. Please. Please. I’m wrapping up. I will wrap up. Please turn the music off. I’ve done this before. Thank you. It’s not my first rodeo. I will be brief,” Brody said from the stage. 

“Thank you God, thank you for this blessed life,” the two-time Oscar winner said at the beginning of his lengthy speech. “If I may just humbly begin by giving thanks for the tremendous outpouring of love that I felt from this world and every individual that has treated me with respect and appreciation.”

“I feel so fortunate,” Brody continued. “Acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous and, in certain moments, it is, but the one thing that I’ve gained having the privilege to come back here is to have some perspective. No matter where you are in your career, no matter what you’ve accomplished, it can all go away.”

“I’m here once again to represent the lingering traumas and the repercussions of war and systematic oppression, and of anti-Semitism and racism and of othering,” he continued. “I pray for a healthier and a happier and a more inclusive world, and I believe if the past can teach us anything, it’s a reminder to not let hate go unchecked.”

The actor wrapped up quickly when the music started playing again.

Brody previously won Best Actor for “The Pianist” in 2003 at the age of 29. He was the youngest person ever to win in that category. 

Many X users weighed in on the length of the speech, calling it “self-indulgent” and joking that it was longer than “The Brutalist,” which clocks in at just over three and a half hours.

“Adrien Brody managed to say so much and also nothing at all,” one person complained.

“[S]orry adrien brody but you should have enough perspective to know that you need to wrap it up — this is so self-indulgent,” another reaction said. 

A third person joked, “Adrien Brody’s speech is gonna have an intermission.”

By the end of the evening, “The Brutalist” won three Oscars in total, taking home the prizes for Best Original Score and Best Cinematography in addition to Brody scoring Best Actor.