Marlon Brando anyone at home behind the face?

Famous faces. Anyone at home behind them? Let’s begin with Marlon Brando, remembered now as a famously corpulent body, By Last Tango in Paris, his brooding power had turned to blubbery narcissism, Since 1978, aside from his rare film appearances, Brando-watchers have had to make do with the Chinese American broadcaster Connie Chung’s televised visit to his island hideaway

Brando was scathingly sane about acting – ‘I don’t put it down ... but I resent other people putting it up’

His conversations ranged over literary and political history, not only American and European: a discussion of Aldo Moro’s murder is well-informed and politically acute. After a few hours in this Brando’s company, his references to Kafka and Kierkegaard, Baudelaire and Epictetus, seem thoroughly, unostentatiously appropriate. The man was widely read and witty on an impressive variety of topics. He was wise, charming, and at ease with himself and with the world.

What of the other Brando - the murmuring hulk promising childish storms of violence and tenderness. Which ws the real Brando? Both, no doubt. It’s not uncommon for someone to combine elements of the tartar and the sage. For an intelligent actor who becomes an idol, it’s almost unavoidable.

Source Carey Harrison This was an interesting man. Not too sure about the acting.