Edward Norton Returns Again

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 70K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Edward Norton (The Invite, Fight Club, and American History X) is an Academy Award-nominated actor, filmmaker, and environmental entrepreneur. Edward joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up with a visionary city-planner grandfather, methodically living on $11,000 a year as a young actor in New York, and building a port-emissions company that sucks poison from cargo ships. Edward and Dax talk about the actor’s narcissistic brain, why he doesn’t treat film like a volume game, and the exhilarating trust Olivia Wilde created while directing The Invite. Edward explains the difference between iconic actors and shape-shifting actors, why uncertainty can be the gateway to deeper work, and how the things we absorb from the world become what we eventually give back through art.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:02.2	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:03.0	I'm joined by Monica Norton. Hello. Hello. It's not true. We're not married. No, because he's married to my friend, Shauna. Yeah, yeah. For people who don't know the backstory, Shawna, Edward's wife. That's right. Producer extraordinaire. Yes. Introduce Kristen and I. Yes. And then you'll hear a funny story about when we had babies, which maybe you've already heard, but we revisit it. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, a very serendipitous semi-moment happened. Because she had a dinner party. This is not the, the, if you miss it originally, Shauna had a dinner party where you two met. Yeah, birthday dinner party for Jonah, I think. Oh, yeah. There's only like eight of us. Do you remember which restaurant? It was on Mowro's. It's kind of a famous, fancy restaurant of Mowros, but I can't think of the name of it. Like Jones, like Dantana. It wasn't Jones or Danana. More towards LaBreo. Like more in that pocket of Melrose. Yeah. Yeah. Or Beverly. Could also been on Beverly. And that whole zone. Most, uh, no, for the east. It doesn't matter. West. The point is Edward Norton is our guest today.
1:12.8	He's an Academy Award nominated actor and filmmaker.
1:16.4	Fight Club America History X, Primal Fear, Birdman.
1:20.2	He has a new movie out.
1:21.2	We're continuing on with our invite week because we love the movie so much.
1:26.3	Yes, so good. So we're pushing on strong and hard to talk
1:31.7	more about the invite and to hear all good things from Edward Norton. Please enjoy. This podcast is
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2:42.9	He's an object expert.
2:48.2	He's an object expert.
2:53.6	He's an a treat. You have a cream top.
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