Adrien Brody Photo: CFP

Belgian film sales and production company Corsan announced on Monday at Cannes that Oscar prize winner Adrien Brody will play the role of Charles V in the movie Emperor by New Zealand director Lee Tamahori.

In an interview with the Xinhua News Agency, Brody talked about his role in the movie. "My responsibility is to help that story and find truth in the depictions of a character that, although there are historical elements, will largely have fictional elements.

"A lot in the story will come out from imagination, but hopefully with the authenticity and conviction of how a man in that position of power would behave."

Talking about his way of working on set, Brody explained that he always tries to have something truthful that he picked up along the way and which is able to come out later.

"For me it's very difficult to discuss here the acting process because the beauty of movies is that you sit in the room and you connect with the story and feel for the characters," he explained.

Brody thinks that to sit, dissect and analyze the details of a film before it's seen, pulls audiences out of the movie because the beauty of going to the cinema is not knowing anything about the actor playing that character.

Versatility is a quality that Brody feels is the key to being an actor, "I need the room to be an actor. I did Predators mainly to prove that the actor who can play the main character in The Pianist, can also step in the shoes of Schwarzenegger in a film like that, and do it faithfully to the original representing what the fans are looking for."

Production is scheduled to begin in August 2014, with filming both in the Czech Republic and Belgium.