United Kingdom, Feb. 6 -- Adrien Brody's love of acting has been "reignited".

The 51-year-old star has cited the COVID-19 pandemic as a turning point in his career, explaining that it led him to rediscover his love of acting.

Adrien - who won an Oscar for his performance in 'The Pianist', the 2002 war drama - told Variety: "Something's really reignited my love of acting.

"I think COVID was a reminder of how precarious things really can be and how much hardship exists in the world, and how so much of what I look back on from my experience of making 'The Pianist' was an earth-shattering awareness of what not to take for granted and how I had taken a lot for granted in my youth.

"Getting older, for that matter, reminds you of how valuabl...