Episode 152 - Edward Norton

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Edward Norton has built a career out of shape-shifting. Just look at his beginning in film: The People vs. Larry Flynt, Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You, American History X, Rounders, Fight Club. And it didn't stop there. Throughout the 2000s Norton embraced what he calls his “penchant for mimicry”–a desire to disappear into roles big and small. So, for the next hour, Norton and I reflect on his past and present, from performing in front of Edward Albee at 24 to directing his 2nd film, Motherless Brooklyn. We talk about building personal mythologies, ambition and early success, his memories of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the enduring legacy of 25th Hour, the puzzling joys of Chinatown, the painstaking process of creating his labor of love, Motherless Brooklyn, and more. Visit our site: http://talkeasypod.com/artist/edward-norton/

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	There's always been. There's always been that idea within like mythological things that
0:17.2	characters like the Greek gods that are iconic and then there's sort of
0:21.0	more that idea of the shape shifter.
0:22.8	In many ways I think it's easier to be a shape shifter if you've been more of a tabula rasa, a generalist.
0:29.4	I went to 13 bar mitzvah's, you know what I mean?
0:32.1	Like I had lots of Jewish friends, lots of black friends,
0:35.1	and I was always really drawn to their worlds,
0:38.2	the exoticism.
0:39.4	And if you get drawn toward exoticism,
0:41.4	then like as an actor, that's exactly, you know, like hey I'm going to go put this skin on I'm going to go put that skin on for sure that's more my bent you know I'm not Harrison Ford like I'm not I'm not going to be like the guy you go to for the same thing
0:57.3	Every time and you love it every time you know what I mean? I'm just not
1:09.2	That was Edward Norton. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy.
1:51.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. So back in 2002, 2003, there was a poker player named Chris Moneymaker who won the World Series of poker. And it was around this time that ESPN started to have ESPN 2 and ESPN 3 and all these
1:56.9	channels and offshoots. And on these channels they would televise the world Series of Poker and other poker Texas Hold and Base events
2:07.3	I mentioned this because in 2002, 2003, 2004, I was certain, absolutely certain, that I was going to become the next great professional
2:19.7	poker player.
2:21.3	I'd have friends over, we'd sit in the basement and play, I played with my sunglasses
2:26.5	on like an asshole, and I loved the game, and in part I loved the game because of this film called Rounders.
2:35.1	If you're listening you've probably seen the movie.
2:37.8	If you haven't please put the podcast on hold.
2:41.9	Go watch Rounders. I love this film so much. I loved it so much that I had to buy a second DVD of it because I wore out the first one.
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