This Resurfaced Conversation Between Harris Dickinson And Drew Starkey About Adrien Brody's Alleged 'Filthy' Habit Has Aged Scarily Well After The Oscars, And It's Too Funny

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07-03-2025

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At the Academy Awards on Sunday, Adrien Brody became a two-time Oscar winner and made history in more ways than one — giving the longest-ever acceptance speech and becoming the first person ever to throw their used gum off the stage while collecting an award.
If you've not watched his nearly 6-minute speech, Adrien found himself in a sticky situation on his way up to collect the award for Best Actor when he realized he still had gum in his mouth. I have many questions about how this even happened, but nonetheless, he dealt with the matter swiftly — stopping midway up the stairs, spitting the gum into his hand, and throwing it down to his girlfriend, Georgina Chapman, who not-so-elegantly tried to catch it from the front row of the audience.
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The bizarre moment left people divided, with some branding it as disgusting while others thought it was hilarious. A few days later, Adrien addressed the move during an appearance on Live With Kelly and Mark, saying: 'I could've swallowed it, but I didn't think about that. I had to get rid of it somehow.' Which… I guess makes sense?
And now that the dust is beginning to settle on the 2025 Oscars, a nearly three-month-old clip from Variety's Actors on Actors series suggests this possibly wasn't Adrien's first offense when it comes to used gum mishaps.
Actors on Actors is when — you guessed it — actors pair up to talk about their buzzy films in the run-up to awards season. So, when Babygirl star Harris Dickinson sat down with Queer 's Drew Starkey, the start of their conversation was momentarily stalled by the realization that a previous guest had left a piece of used gum on the set.
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'Is that a piece of gum? Someone's left their gum on the table,' Drew said, leaning down to investigate the coffee table beside his chair. Harris agreed that were was, in fact, a piece of used gum stuck to the table and suggested that it'd probably been left there by 'someone very famous,' leading them to ask the producers which celeb had been filming in there before them.
Though Drew and Harris didn't get an answer (on camera, at least), the pair circled back to the gum conversation at the end of the interview and concluded that it was left by Adrien, who was also part of the Actors on Actors series last year. 'Whose fucking chewing gum is that? Real talk, is that Adrien?' Harris said while getting up to leave. 'Adrien Brody, you filthy motherfucker. How dare he…You win one Oscar and think you can do anything,' he joked with Drew as another crew member in the background can be heard adding, 'It's gotta be Adrien Brody.'
Obviously, we can't know for sure that Adrien left the gum, but it's very possible he'd been in there before them, which would explain why his name came up. That aside, it is pretty hilarious how these quotes have aged, from the misplaced gum to the joke about the Oscar win — and it's safe to say that fans also noticed the coincidence of it all.
'They got him months ago…,' one TikTok user joked on a video combining the clips of Harris and Drew along with Adrien's speech. 'It's so funny to me how they basically summarize the whole thing, literally saw the future.' 'He's obviously got a reputation,' someone else joked about Adrien's alleged gum-chewing habits. The TikTok clip also drew parallels between Harris joking that Adrien thinks he can 'do anything' and Adrien getting played off during his acceptance speech on Sunday, saying, 'Please turn the music off. I've done this before… It's not my first rodeo.'
Either Harris and Drew are a little psychic, or Adrien chews more gum than he knows what to do with. Alternatively, it's just a big funny coincidence… but this got a giggle out of me, I'll tell you that much.