Edward Norton Career Retrospective | SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Edward shares stories from his performances in Fight Club, Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You, Motherless Brooklyn, The Score, and Keeping the Faith in this interview covering his acting career. He recounts his experiences with the casting process, acting while directing, getting in character, and working with Marlon Brando in this Q&A moderated by Dave Karger. This interview is part of the SAG-AFTRA Conversations series, an essential resource for actors, filmmakers and students of discussions with performers, exploring the process and profession of acting.
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0:00 Introduction
0:06 Education, theater
8:03 Affordable housing work
10:07 Beginnings in acting
13:27 Primal Fear
25:48 Everyone Says I Love You
27:51 American History X, getting in character
32:23 Casting Motherless Brooklyn
35:05 Fight Club
40:44 Keeping the Faith
43:02 Acting while directing
53:13 The Score, Marlon Brando
58:31 Motherless Brooklyn - Zábava
![Edward Norton on 'Primal Fear,' 'Fight Club', 'American History X' and more [extended]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/76bNIzKusrA/mqdefault.jpg)
i feel like my pupils turn to hearts when I look at this man
Very intelligent actor.. he has so much emotional awareness
Edward Norton is literally genius!!! I hope he has more movies coming out!
Motherless Brooklyn was beautiful, a really good movie indeed
Amazing actor, one of the best, most poignant and articulate actors of all time
Extraordinary actor... and underrated. Thank you Mr. Norton for your movies!
He's an absolute inspiration to me
I rate him extremely highly!
Underrated? He's considered top tier as far as I know.
Edward is such a great actor. He also doesn’t take any bullshit from studios or directors he does what he wants to do.
I didn't know just how brilliant he is. He has a big brain.
You have to check out what he does besides acting. Amazing!
@@bettina4374 yes , he is into technology and is amazing
What a thinker. It was a pure pleasure to listen to him. And I don't know why,but during the whole conversation I just can't take my eyes off his hands.
I've noticed that i often find myself watching his hands. The way he uses them to accentuate what he says is very intriguing. Even when I'm watching his movies I enjoy watching how he uses his hands to help him act. And the way he does it is very unique to him. Sort of how you might notice Leonardo Dicaprio uses his hands in a way that is just Leo.
American history x introduced me to Ed and I have watched all his movies since. Such a difficult character to somehow make sympathetic in the end... this man is a genius! Very underrated.
He he didn’t want to talk much about American History X. That disappointed me.
A very intelligent person and amazing actor. He acting is a demonstration of what pure talent is. He is flawless. ❤❤❤
Thank you for all of your thoughtful and measured performances Mr. Norton
Edward is one of my favorite actors. Thanks so much for posting this comprehensive and informative interview!
Love All Edwards Movies great Man
I love listening and watching Edward talk, the way he really gets into his answers is amazing to me. He puts so much thought into it.
I wish Jenelle had another chance to interview Edward. She was great the first time around! He's telling a lot of the same stories as the first interview a few years ago because the interviewer isn't that great this time. Jenelle's interview: czcams.com/video/avusZa1hsYQ/video.html
Spoiler Alert : At the end of this interview you find out Dave is talking to Brad Pitt the whole time !
damn it.... this comment needs to be more popular
ah shit here we go again
" if I had a tumor I'd
name it Marla . "
Fight Club is one of those movies to have you thinking if your job sucks and some boss is a jackass there are things you can do about it and the personality Tyler will change your life completely guys have found a place where they enjoy unleashing frustration anger here is another fav Pulp Fiction I like those stories one the Gold Watch because even though Christopher Walken got a small part in that he told the story of war and what happened so well fans can appreciate these movies .
his neck looks literally pink in this
I'm in NYC right now. Not much has changed.
The interviewer did a great job with this
Лучший! Гений!
Love this interview , too much stimming But very inteligent person 😁
I was upset that there wasn't more adventurous art in my youth. I was a bit sad: I had this drama teacher in high school Sharon Leftwich who was this juxtaposed sort of classic Greek this, and French surrealist that. She told me when we were studying Artaud, that one he died on stage for 8 hours, I was full of awe. I mean, sometimes, like Andy warhol, celebrity disappears up it's own *ss like an orouberous vain snake and they forget about the customers a bit, but other times it's just to be more realistic. So this description "Finn Argyle is a thirty something single forensic pathologist," right, there's only so many outfits to wear the sentence never ends
'...who decided stairs were boring and every room in his house is connected by slides" or
"Who railed against two eyeball fascism in his youth and was hospitalised after gene splicing himself with a spider"
Or
"Prefers to drink in an Icelandic giant fable theme pub" right? I always wished the people weren't scared to be happy in harmless ways
To all the actors here, is what Norton saying true about acting being first analytical and emotional second?
For me, when I want to do something meaning a material I would do for free, is one where I'm emotionally connected first.
But as an actor , moving towards the control of my craft, it has to be analytical and by analytical I mean, you become discerning, questioning your choices...And building belief after all that dry analysis.
❤️
Is that a live audience or a laugh track?
I of course wouldn't fault Brando at all for using an ear wig at the age of 82, the only thing is I've heard from plenty of different outlets over the years that he'd been doing that for decades. like at least even as early on as the Godfather, if not even previous. I can more easily understand some taking issue all the way back then with him not being as diligent has having your basic lines already on the day. He obviously was bringing the juice with his performances back in the 70s but it can speak to a certain lack of professionalism.
Angelina Jolie please