Brit, Felicity Jones has got herself a another Best Supporting Actress nomination. This time, for her role in the Oscar-tipped The Brutalist. She puts in an incredible performance alongside Adrien Brody and admits she can't believe she's still acting in incredible films like this. Felicity reflects on working with Adrien and admits she was really worried about the accent she had to have for this film. She posed with her co-stars at the UK Special Screening at London's Picturehouse Central in Piccadilly. Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Does anyone, you know, but nobody does, I don't think.
00:04No. Oh, it's still working. It's still going. I can't believe it.
00:08You can go and have a cup of tea, you can have a drink.
00:12I'm just going to have a little bit of water. I've got a little bit of a tickly cough.
00:14What a day. You're allowed a tickly cough on a day like today.
00:18Do you get as excited every time? I mean, how does it all work?
00:21Do you know in advance and do your team know?
00:23I mean, I'm fascinated by how it works in the nomination business.
00:26Oh, I know. I think you should know in advance.
00:28You know, I'm always asking my team, does anyone know?
00:30Does anyone, you know, but nobody does, I don't think.
00:33No. I think you find out, I think everyone, it is genuine.
00:38I think everyone finds out on the day.
00:40Oh, it's so incredible. Can I just name who you're up against?
00:43Yes. Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Jamie Lee Curtis, Zoe Saldana and Isabella Rossellini.
00:50Yeah, what a list.
00:51I mean, that is the best girl group ever.
00:53Pretty cool, yeah. All doing really cool performances.
00:59Interesting performances in pretty cool films.
01:03When you look back at your career so far,
01:05did you think you'd be here against those ladies in all the different genres you're in?
01:09We're really making headway, aren't we?
01:11Yeah. I mean, I'm shocked that each year I sort of do a film
01:16and I'm like, oh, I'm still working. It's still going. I can't believe it.
01:20I'm always thinking, what are my other options, you know, if I'm forced into retirement?
01:24But luckily I haven't been quite yet.
01:27Yeah, not yet.
01:28But it is, it's pretty special to have a film like The Brutalist.
01:32It's so unusual to read something like this.
01:36And so often, you never know quite how it's going to go.
01:39And a film like this, we could have shown it and people not respond to it
01:43and it would have disappeared.
01:44So having the awards and the response just gives it a long, long life, hopefully.
01:50And talking of long, I love there's an advert break in this.
01:53You can step out of the room for 15 minutes.
01:56What's your advice for what you do in that break? Have you got any...?
01:59Well, you can go and have a cup of tea.
02:02You can have a drink. You can have a chat.
02:06Hopefully you don't leave the cinema. That would not be great.
02:09But I think people are enjoying the fact that it is so novel.
02:14When was the last time you saw a film with an intermission?
02:17I mean, it would have been decades ago that that would have happened.
02:21You're making history.
02:22And the accent, just finally, unbelievable, remarkable.
02:25How did you keep that up?
02:26And when you first found out about it, were you daunted?
02:28Yeah, I was really...
02:31I knew I wanted to do it and I was all in and I read it and I really liked it
02:35and I did think, oh gosh, hold on a minute.
02:37Am I really going to have to pull the stops out here?
02:40Because I was so determined.
02:42I just didn't want people to be thinking about the accent when they were watching it.
02:46I just wanted them to be in the character, in her,
02:49and hopefully we've all pulled it off.
02:53But it was definitely...
02:55Playing Erzsébet was a challenge for sure.
02:58And your friends and family, at the end, were they like,
03:00thank goodness for that accent. It's gone for a little bit.
03:02Yeah, exactly.
03:03I think my husband's always relieved when Erzsébet,
03:07or whatever character I'm playing, departs our house.
03:10It's like, oh, Felicity's come back, great.
03:12We can carry on with our lives.
03:14Exactly.
03:15Well, you were unbelievable.
03:16Really, really well done.
03:17I think you're a rebel in this moment. You deserve it.
03:20Thank you, Felicity.
03:21Thank you very much. Thank you.