Overview
- He told Interview Magazine he shut himself in a hotel room for five months to prepare for his Broadway debut in The Fear of 13.
- The play centers on Nick Yarris, an American who spent more than two decades wrongfully on death row.
- He said roles like this require giving up comforts and freedoms to stay inside the character’s world.
- He acknowledged that such methods have not been easy on his personal relationships.
- The show runs in New York through mid-July after a successful London run, and he takes the stage as a two-time Oscar winner for The Pianist (2003) and The Brutalist (2025).