Edward Norton Returns Again
7/1/20262 hr 3 min
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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First 90 secondsDax Shepard· Host0:00
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepherd. I'm joined by Monica Norton.
Monica Padman· Host0:04
Hello.
Dax Shepard· Host0:05
[laughs] Hello.
Monica Padman· Host0:06
It's not true. We're not married.
Dax Shepard· Host0:08
No, 'cause sh- he's married- He's married ... to my friend Shauna.
Monica Padman· Host0:11
To Shauna.
Dax Shepard· Host0:12
Yeah, yeah. For people who don't know the backstory, Shauna, Edward's wife- That's right ... producer extraordinaire- Yes ... introduced Kristen and I.
Monica Padman· Host0:21
Yes.
Dax Shepard· Host0:21
And then you'll hear a funny story about when we had babies, which maybe you've already heard, but we revisit it.
Monica Padman· Host0:26
Yeah, that's true.
Dax Shepard· Host0:27
Yeah, a very serendipitous semi moment happened.
Monica Padman· Host0:30
'Cause she had a dinner party. This is not the, the, the... If, if you missed it originally, Shauna had a dinner party where you two met.
Dax Shepard· Host0:39
Yeah, a birthday dinner party- Or something ... for Jonah, I think- Oh, yeah ... at a restaurant. There was only, like, eight of us.
Monica Padman· Host0:44
Do you remember which restaurant?
Dax Shepard· Host0:46
It was on Melrose. It's kind of a famous fancy restaurant on Melrose- Like- ... but I can't think of the name of it ...
Monica Padman· Host0:52
like Jones? Like Dan Tana's?
Dax Shepard· Host0:54
It wasn't Jones or Dan Tana's. More towards La Brea, like more in that pocket of Melrose.
Monica Padman· Host0:59
Yeah. God.
Dax Shepard· Host1:00
Yeah. Or Beverly. Could also've been on Beverly.
Monica Padman· Host1:04
I think Mozza.
Dax Shepard· Host1:04
In that whole zone. No, further [laughs] from the east. [laughs] It doesn't matter. West. Um- It's a great intro ... the point is Edward Norton [laughs] is our guest today. He's an Academy Award-nominated actor and filmmaker. Fight Club, American History X, Primal Fear, Birdman. He has a new movie out. We're continuing on with our Invite week because we love the movie so much.
Monica Padman· Host1:26
Yes, so good.
Dax Shepard· Host1:28
So we're, we're pushing on