Our first guest is an Academy Award nominated , actor who stars in a new film that's called the score it opens on Friday please say . hello to the very talented Edward Norton I've watched it for years and now I'm actually . sitting well glad to have you here how's your summer going it's going great what kind of , stuff do you do are you not working now you got some time I have been working really hard . and just just finished so um I've I've been in New York about 10 years so uh where are you . from originally I'm from Baltimore Baltimore there's someone else one that's , typical you know one person class it's a small City that's right they start and then they think oh geez maybe I'll get caught and uh I you know I've I've been um I've actually been apartment hunting because I've lived here 10 years I've been saving up my money working hard . that's all New York City is about looking for another for an apartment so um it's it's , been interesting because I've been going around and there's been a um there's been sort . of a rumor that I've I've caught a whiff of that somebody named Rudy has been seeing some of the , apartments are in front of are you kidding about this no I'm serious and I you know of course I postulate that it's his honor and except that it brought up a couple thoughts one being why . is a guy who's you know working in Hollywood and a public servant who's claiming he has , six thousand dollars in the bank looking at the same places aha so I'm uh that made me wonder so my my theory was uh my theory was that he's he's showing him to the girlfriend yeah but then he's gonna back he's going to show a few downtown Lofts and then say you know . they're doing great things over in Jersey City and we're gonna Annex it anyway go over there yeah it's all gentrified it's very nice no but it's um I've been out of New York too long so it's been have you found a place you're going to be able to move in soon I'm I'm having to mortgage , um the life of my entire family to even consider it but but um when you come here uh you have fun . it's I mean it's a great if you're coming in for like three days New York is is heaven you know if , you've got to live here it's hell but three days you can have a lot of fun do you get to have any , fun oh yeah you know I mean I've lived here a long time I really love it but um but I I got back . you know I got theater tickets and what are you gonna go see well I saw the producers oh sure , but well that's a that's a tough ticket that's a tough ticket for any I'm sure everybody knows , but I but I think my ringer was that I directed um a movie that Dan Bancroft was in and Anne , Bancroft is married to Mel Brooks well there you go so there you go so yeah so but then I got this story from Anne that you know Mel's like not not just dulling him out like she she actually told me that someone came up to him on the street and said . you know like Mr Brooks you know I've got to get a ticket my my husband's got a week to live and he said not good enough wow not good enough so I but I managed to get them I managed to get some tickets and um I was with a bunch of friends you know they were really impressed we went to Chinatown for some dim sum and like Veteran New Yorkers you know we knew we couldn't catch a cab we'd get jammed up in traffic so we went over we jumped on the red line we went up to Times Square we got there perfect time we walked out it was beautiful night we're going to the theater we're , going to the producers you know we're excited they're just bringing our step we get toward the theater there's a mob of people hoping for a death or a cancellation and and uh and we're going . we've got tickets you know we've got tickets to The Producers we're gonna see Nathan Lane and . Matthew Broderick and the producers and there's people with Hats there's such a crowd they've got control crowd control people with hats and there's a woman going you know if you are hoping for a cancellation Wade over here with the other diluted people if you are if you are waiting . to pick up a ticket wait over here if you have tickets over here once again Nathan Lane is sick . and will not be performing no oh my God my one of my friends literally looked like he'd been shot . through the through the stomach he looked up wow we decided to go anyway wow so we went and it was like you know our . Garfunkel subbing in for example honestly that's not the same that race is a great question because you got to have understudies you know and and the poor guy who I mean that's a talk about . a thankless uh uh Anonymous position to be in whatever we actually it wasn't our Garfunkel I , was kidding but which would that would I would really oh yeah no no you'd have something there , you'd have had something my friend he's brilliant but but he's not so how was the guy there was a , guy his name was Brad Oscar and we saw him at a restaurant later and he could not have been better

he was he told us he had three rehearsals none with Matthew Broderick none with the orchestra . and he was flawless flawless and it was and the audience was going crazy for him so that's one . of those specials now have you had a chance to go back to see it with the intended cast I have , not yet so um you know oh that's an ugly story yeah oh my God it was I mean you know you know you you're there you hope you're impressing your friends everything's going your way Suddenly . It's Regis Philbin yeah wow that's sad have you seen it yeah you haven't seen it you know I I Mel came to the set of Keeping the Faith when we were shooting in the synagogue one time and . he told me that that's what he was working on and thank God I said to him you're going to make . amend you know like because he he and so now he he credits me with foresight but but um it is . actually everything it's cracked up to be the hype is is is totally earned now when we come back here I want to talk a little bit about uh your uh uh film experience how you got into film it was , kind of an odd audition wasn't it was it was am I right about this it was a nationwide Talent , hunt or some kind of a deal yeah I never I can never remember what stories have gotten made of . it oh good so some of them are true some of them are not some of them are not true we'll make up . another one while we do this okay okay you're gonna think of a good story we'll be backwards is this the complete list of your film work Primal Fear 1996 Oscar nomination that was your , first film experience that was my first film well that's pretty good you get the nominated for . an Academy Award in your first try out that's amazing now is that was that the talent hunt , uh film yeah yeah it was it was not as it was an extraordinary circumstance but I I'd been I'd been doing theater in New York for a lot of years I mean I'd been here a long time and uh . there was a casting director who had seen me in the theater here a lot so it wasn't completely . out of the blue but they were seeing a lot a lot of people because they wanted someone unknown . all right so it was it was um it was very very fortunate everyone says I love you uh the people , versus Larry Flynn rounders American History X uh another Academy Award nomination right there Fight Club and uh Keeping the Faith wow man sure and Woody Allen you worked with Woody Allen I worked with Woody this is a lifelong ambition whatever people , come on who have worked with Woody Allen we always have the question what what was , that like you know I found him to be um uh no he you know what I heard he was in a really , good mood on our movie people told me that and he um I found all the the rumors about him not . talking and everything to be to be uh I think a self I think people don't go up to him and , so people don't talk to him so I just figured I'm just going to talk to this guy and I I . love talking to him he was he was we talked about sports and movies and you know what I got , along with him absolutely great I I loved him what we've heard about him when we talked when we , say we I mean me and a couple of folks watching but is that as a director he is in enigmatic he doesn't give you much direction did you find that to be true and if so is it good either either , he really liked me and so he gave me a lot of direction or he really thought I was really bad . and so he gave me a lot of Direction I do recall um Drew Barrymore and I played fiance's in that . movie I don't know maybe she's told the story too but the uh one of the first Big scenes we had was a scene you know classic Woody Allen shot of us walking up Central Park East and . you know along Fifth Avenue in the trees and everything and and and one one long continuous , talking Woody Allen New York Street walk shot so um Drew and I you know we we really worked on , it and and got it pretty down and the first take we we went all the way through it she , cried like right where she was supposed to cry stepped off I turned and sang because . it was a musical which is a little odd but um and we looked at each other Drew looks at me like hey that wasn't so bad you know not too shabby and um and he comes over and he goes you know okay kids you know because you know who went he said uh he was well you know the thing is we we had a little traffic noise on that but it doesn't matter because in every other way that , was a total disaster oh my goodness so it's like welcome to work with Woody and then how many how . many takes did you have to uh pursue we got it we got it in about it was a traffic issue but we we . got it in about 10 probably uh speaking of uh well that you know that's not bad not bad uh speaking . of uh interesting uh cast and uh circumstances in which to work on a film uh Robert De Niro yes uh , Marlon Brando uh in this current film yeah well I mean you know the guy if someone calls you and . says we're getting these guys together to do a dramatic reading of the phone book would you show

up you want to you want to be there for that yeah I think we could take that one summer in the . park did they do that in the park I think Paul you pick your family yeah yeah but um did you get , along with dinero had you known him from before I had I had met Marlon uh a couple maybe a year or , two ago he saw a American History X and some other films and he really liked them so I I met him and . um and knew him to be a very funny very nice guy and so that was comfortable with that but um Bob I had not met and was you know I had a little more trepidation I I would think of of all actors a an actor might work with for the first time in a film those two perhaps could be the most intimidating , whether in fact they are or not well there's a load stars that any any young actor is going to . set their sights by and and either of them it would be thrilling together it was um it put me in , minds of like you remember the old George goebels Line about the world being a tuxedo and you're a . pair of brown shoes I felt there was times I I was fighting fighting feeling like that so but but but they're both um they're both uh all that they're cracked up to be and and Incredibly , terrific in different ways was Marlon weird on this film or was it because you know there's . the the story that he was uh Dressed funny he had odd makeup on and no Marlon had an idea about the character that he wanted to run with you know he I I recall him saying at some point you know I was thinking of wearing a moo moo you know and we're like Marlon it's a heist picture you're amazing you are rich little my friend no I've been a I was around these guys a long time . but Marlon Marlin Marlin's just funny he's just a funny funny guy you know he has he has these great . phrases like he I remember Frank Oz came in and you know Frank was terrific he let us improvise , but one time he came and gave Marlin a note real fast and Molly went Hey listen bub you know you got to give me a little room to swing a cat here you know I was like I leaned over to him I said what the hell does that mean you know and he and he had he had some scene where he had to say to he had to say to Bob you know well you know what would you say to four million dollars and and um and and take after take he kept saying you know for a million Tomatoes four four four four million . clams four million apples and finally someone said Marley can you just save four million dollars you know get off the food kick you know it's like but uh but it was great it was really great and and De Niro De Niro is a whole Bob is Bob is like one you know I mean he's a real he's . truly a genius working and he's everything he's cracked up to me but he's um but he's also like he's got his own he's got bugs in here tonight we got a guy supposed to come but he didn't . because of the holidays uh and and was was Marlon not speaking uh to the director that got a little . that got a little grilled cheese sandwiches yeah I don't know why that can't be a bowl of Doritos no no that got that got a little um that got a . little overblown did they not get along or was it just silly oh no it was it was it was silliness um and and all all for the good of the film in the end and everybody had a we had a great time , I mean the the first time the first time that I sat that we sat down to do an act a scene with all three of us I kind of let myself have a little moment you know I was pretty much we'd . been hanging out and it was relaxed but I sat down and we were going to shoot this scene in a jazz . club and um you know Marlin's sitting there and Bob's sitting there and I'm sitting on a little . couch and I'm thinking well you know this is why I did it right here there's one on the left , and one on the right and and so you know let's let's mix it up let's let's do it and uh swing . some cats yeah let's swing let's swing a cat so is that so um so they roll you know they , roll and there's kind of a hush around the set because it was our first time all three of us and this is you know what they're going to be selling so uh the we start and Marlon has this . bottle of um of Aqua mineral you know I could think and you know he's sort of talking about , uh bugs actually is another thing and he's and he's talking to Bob and he starts pouring and he misses his glass completely and he and he starts pouring the water all down his front which , I realize he's not perceiving so so I turn I turn in the take to you know look at Bob to . see if he's picking up on this and Bob's going and they call they call cut someone's met sees the stains but yeah they they call cut and Bob kind of Bob kind of goes and he , looks he looks over at me and he goes he goes was I sleeping and I said I said dinero . and I said yeah I said yeah he goes he goes how's your meeting hey nice job have a great summer Edward Norton ladies,

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