Peter Gabriel and Adrien Brody

Since Adrien Brody was listed in order of appearance as part of the cast of Francis and Sofia Coppola's piece LIFE WITHOUT ZOË, I kept a sharp eye out for the adolescent Adrien in the school cafeteria scene -- at least it looked like it was supposed to be the cafeteria! The artistically dim lighting made things a little hard to see, which may be why I could hardly find Brody. Judging by the order in which he’s listed in the credits (as a character named "Mel"), Brody should've shown up in Zoë's school right after the know-it-all character Andrea (Alexandra Becker) shows up, just before the hotel robbery scene with Chris Elliott, and Brody must've had dialogue at some point or he wouldn't have been in the credits at all. However, I guess Coppola & Company pulled a THIN RED LINE on Boy Brody, because, like you guys, I didn’t see or hear him utter a single syllable. My only inkling that young Adrien was in the scene at all was that when I looked *very* closely and pressed my DVD remote’s "Slow" button, I thought I detected a familiar noble-nosed profile amongst the students stylishly silhouetted in the background. Oh, well, at least Adrien Brody got an early screen credit and presumably a paycheck out of the experience! :-)

That wasn´t a girl. It was a skinny lad with a girly voice. Could´ve been Adrien.