4 days ago · Perhaps the most startlingly absent character in the epilogue of The Brutalist is László Tóth's patron, Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. (Guy Pearce). In part one of The Brutalist, Harrison serves as László's patron in more ways than one: he not only hires László as an architect and houses him on the Van Buren estate, but Harrison also introduces László to the lawyer who brings László's ...

3 days ago · Guy Pearce in The Brutalist (Image via YouTube/@A24) To understand the fate of Guy Pearce's character, we must take a look at the history of Adrien Brody's character. Brody plays László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect, who immigrates to the United States after surviving the horrifying Holocaust. While there, Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr ...

1 day ago · The Brutalist is filled with fascinating characters, including Guy Pearce's Harrison Lee Van Buren, raising questions about the real stories behind the movie. Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is one of the most astonishing films of the year, offering an epic tale set in post-war America about a Hungarian-Jewish architect and his relationship with a ...

Jan 24, 2025 · NEW YORK (AP) — Over the years, Guy Pearce has been good in most all things. But he’s been particularly good at playing characters with a refined disposition who harbor darker impulses underneath. That was true of his breakout performance in “L.A. Confidential” as a squeaky clean police detective whose ambitions outstrip his ethics.

Dec 24, 2024 · Guy Pearce told Business Insider that what happens to his character Van Buren at the end of "The Brutalist" isn't the point — there's much more to examine.

Dec 20, 2024 · Guy Pearce discusses his new movie, The Brutalist, and his character, Harrison Van Buren, along with his fitness, bodybuilding past, David Cronenberg, and more.

Jan 24, 2025 · His Harrison Lee Van Buren in “The Brutalist” may be Pearce’s most colossally two-faced concoction yet. If Brady Corbet’s film, which was nominated for 10 Oscars on Thursday, is one of the...

Dec 19, 2024 · Guy Pearce plays the quixotic industrialist driving events in epic drama The Brutalist. The actor tells Demetrios Matheou how he sank his teeth into the contradictory, multi‑layered role

Dec 25, 2024 · A benefactor to Adrien Brody’s architect character László Tóth, the patronage of Guy Pearce’s wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren eventually metastasizes into something far darker as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist examines balances of power and privilege.

Nov 22, 2024 · As the ultra-rich Harrison Lee Van Buren, an apparent philistine who becomes Toth’s artistic champion, Pearce steals the show. Here—speaking from the sanctuary of his home studio,...