Conan O’Brien held himself back from mocking Adrien Brody’s Oscar speech: ‘Don’t be a d–k’

Conan O’Brien is looking backmost astatine this brutally agelong Oscars speech.

On nan upcoming April 20th section of his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, nan comic, 61, said pinch Carol Leifer astir Adrien Brody winning nan Best Actor award for “The Brutalist.”

“How to beryllium funny if you’re going to springiness a speech, nan astir important is length,” O’Brien said. “And I can’t show you really galore times I person witnessed personification — they get their laugh, and you’re like, ‘Good good,’ and past they support connected going, and we’re like, ‘No, no.'”

“We’re talking to you, Adrien Brody,” Leifer, 68, quipped, which garnered a fresh of laughter from O’Brien.

“Just witnessed that erstwhile I was backstage astatine nan Oscars. I truthful wanted to — but I thought, ‘It’s precocious successful nan day, don’t beryllium a d–k,'” nan Academy Awards big elaborated. “I truthful wanted to spell retired location and say, ‘You thought ‘The Brutalist’ was long!'”

O’Brien added, “It was specified a softball hanging location and I thought, ‘Ehh.'”

Leifer inquired astir conscionable really adjacent nan late-night big was to interjecting pinch that joke, to which he confessed, “Very close.”

“For a 2nd I almost said that reside needed an intermission,” O’Brien continued. “Then I thought, ‘I’m going to spot him successful a minute.’ And his payback is coming from nan world. People telling him for nan remainder of his life, ‘Why Why!'”

At nan Oscars, Brody hit retired Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) and Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”).

“The Brutalist” was a three-and-a-half-hour movie that followed an designer [Brody] who came to America to rebuild his life, profession and matrimony aft escaping postwar Europe.

And overmuch for illustration nan lengthy film, nan character gave a astir six-minute acceptance speech, which immoderate dubbed the longest winner’s speech successful nan ceremony’s 96 years.

“Winning an grant for illustration this signifies a destination and thing my characteristic references successful nan film. But to me, it also, beyond nan pinnacle of a career, it is simply a chance to statesman again and nan opportunity to hopefully beryllium fortunate capable truthful that nan adjacent 20 years of my life, I tin beryllium that I americium worthy of specified meaningful, important and applicable roles,” Brody said successful part.

Brody besides gave a saccharine motion to his “amazing” partner, Georgina Chapman, and her “beautiful” children — whom she had pinch ex-husband, incarcerated Harvey Weinstein.

“I cognize it’s been a roller coaster,” he said to nan kids. “Thank you for accepting maine into your life.”

Brody didn’t time off nan shape arsenic nan wrap-up euphony played and alternatively forged guardant successful his speech.

“This is not my first rodeo,” he stated.

Along pinch nan Academy Awards, Brody besides won large for nan humanities play at the Golden Globes, nan BAFTAs and nan Critics Choice Awards.

In his Critics’ reside successful February, Brody reflected connected his profession complete nan decades.

“I’ve been doing this since I was 12 and I cognize very intelligibly that these moments are acold and fewer betwixt successful an actor’s life. I do not return this for granted,” nan character shared. “I want to outcry retired my unit and astonishing formed for each their astonishing contributions to this, I couldn’t beryllium present without you, and to my squad for supporting maine and guiding maine and A24 for believing successful this movie and of people to my beautiful girlfriend, Georgina, and my parents, convey you. I would not beryllium present without you. God bless everyone, I emotion you. Thank you.”