The Pianist Credit: Focus Features

Poor tall, dark and cute actor Adrien Brody. First he was hunted by Nazis as a WW II Polish Jew in The Pianist, for which he became the youngest man ever to win the Best Actor Oscar, then he was shipped down to New Zealand to run from a very, very big monkey in Peter Jackson's King Kong. Somewhere in the middle, he shot a cool psychological thriller called The Jacket, in which he co-stars with Keira Knightley and plays a Gulf War soldier with amnesia, framed for a murder and sent to a mental institution where he's placed in a straightjacket in a morgue drawer! Geez, Adrien, lighten up! Actually, the actor, in person, is very positive, witty, funny and upbeat. Witness the 2004 Oscar telecast during which he planted a super big smooch on winner Halle Berry!

We got to have a sitdown with Adrien at the 4 Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills earlier this week. We were impressed with how very young the actor looked in tousled hair, dark pinstripe suit, light blue shirt and interesting bling; a diamond encrusted skull and crossbones necklace! (Humm, is Keira passing out pirate treasure to her co-stars now?). We got the latest on Adrien's preparation for The Jacket and his take on working with a giant, invisible monkey in "Kong"!

TeenHollywood: You are locked in a morgue drawer in a straightjacket for some of this film. What kind of preparation do you do for something like that?