Director Brady Corbet is defending the use of AI in “The Brutalist” after facing heavy backlash for utilizing the controversial tech to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones' Hungarian dialect and to create certain images in the film’s ending.

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet clarified how AI tools were used on the film during postproduction after social media outrage about the practice spread widely over the weekend. In a statement provided to Gold Derby,

The A24 film is under fire after editor Dávid Jancsó revealed an AI tool was used to perfect the actors' Hungarian dialect.

"Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own," says Corbet, after details emerged on how AI technology was used in the editing of the actors' scenes spoken in Hungarian.

EXCLUSIVE: Following news that the 3x Golden Globe winning movie The Brutalist used AI in post to smooth the Hungarian accents of its stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones as well as that of its cast,

The director discusses the immigrant experience, his own origins and why America needs a movie about a sympathetic rightwinger

Before his days as a director of such acclaimed works as Vox Lux and The Brutalist, Brady Corbet was most known for his acting work, with one of his most notable roles being in Michael Haneke ’s English-language remake of Funny Games.

The Brutalist' director Brady Corbet is defending the controversial use of AI to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian accents in his acclaimed film

Director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is both intimate and epic. It is an intense exploration of one man’s complicated life during post–World War II in America. Corbet and his co-writer, Mona Fastvold,

Director Brady Corbet clarifies use of AI in post-production for The Brutalist, emphasizing authenticity of lead actors' performances.

Brady Corbet's critically claimed film elicited backlash after the editor said that artificial intelligence had been used.