WHET to Edward Norton?

He's in the same drawer of forgettables as Josh Charles. Sad. They could have been gay icons.

cunty diva to work with, many wont go near him.....

soo fug, how him get be a 'star' ????

Eddy comes from a very, very rich, very, very well-educated family.

He don't need nothing from Hollywood.

He directs now I think.

He just received an Oscar nomination for Birdman like two or three years ago.

He turned down the Hulk in the original Avenger movie. He was demanding creative control of the character.

Too bad.

He is a great actor. To bad he's so difficult.

He had a cute butt in Birdman.

Shows how much i know. Never even heard of ‘Birdman!’ Will check it out now

Vintage gossip: “Norton, Ed. "Smarter than you and happy to prove it." Linked with Helena Christensen, Cameron Diaz, Salma Hayek, and Courtney Love.

Novak, Kim. Reportedly...well, this smacks of urban legend, but reportedly Kim Novak had "testicular feminization syndrome" and "was genetically a male." Linked with Sammy Davis, Jr, Cary Grant, RFK, Aly Khan, Peter Lawford, Porfirio Rubirosa, and Frank Sinatra.”

I included the Kim Novak one because it was juicy and he’s boring.

He'll be back. He is extraordinarily talented.

Absolutely no gay rumors, eh?

Loved him in Primal Fear.

R13, Primal Fear was one of the best debut performances ever.

He was never as good as he was hyped to be. So many films where he phoned it in. Still, more tolerable than say, Ryan Gosling who we still can't get rid of.

The cute butt in question, from the film American History X.

And the cute cock, from the same film:

He's going to be on the Roast of Bruce Willis later this month, which is his first noteworthy project since the Oscar nom for Birdman.

As people have mentioned above, he's a notorious asshole. He more or less hijacked numerous films he was cast in and stole the reigns from the director. He made a lot of enemies, which is why he doesn't get a lot of work. However, some people in the industry really love the classic "asshole actor". See also Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hardy, etc.

"American History X" !!

He did a great job in ‘American History X,’ despite the premise being rather ridiculous. Neo nazis in Venice Beach in the 90s? Really?

His crying scene in American History X is hilarious and awful. Everything about that film is both hilarious and awful.

What r18 said. He was a diva asshole who thought he knew more than the director and everybody else. People got tired of his bullshit.

It doesn’t surprise me at all that there were Neo-Nazis in Venice Beach.

He' was playing himself in "Birdman." In other words he's a dick. That's why nobody wants to work with him. He's controlling and thinks he's smarter than everybody else. Lately it seems that all he does is have roles in Wes Anderson movies.

He did have an affair with Courtney Love years ago. Her mother said Norton had "made a project" of her. Anyway, she blathered about it for years. She said they were getting married (they didn't). She claimed that he was the love of her life, not Kurt Cobain. and that he was more of a father to Frances Bean than Kurt ever was. She claimed he was the mediator when she and Frances Bean had spats (this was long after the relationship was over). When it was rumored he was engaged (I think she actually started the rumor) she tweeted "I wonder what kind of engagement ring he gave her? He gave me a ruby." She claimed that he gave her a $30, 000 ring "when he had only $40, 000 to his name!" Or something to that effect. She claimed he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her in some kind of investment scheme. In other words, Courtney Love is and always was insane. I guess he did think he could make a lady out of her, but you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as the saying goes.

For someone so well educated and from a privileged family he seems to like women from the wrong side of the tracks. His wife is Shauna Robertson, a high school drop who achieved some dubious success as a producer of schlock comedies.

In the late 90s, R23?

R25, are you saying that’s too late or too early for them? Remember Charlottesville? They came from all over.

Too late, R26, but I digress .. another discussion for a different thread.

Norton was a revelation in Primal Fear.

You can be a complete asshole diva in Hollywood and still get work if you put butts in the seats. Unfortunately nobody ever said, I can't wait to see the new Edward Norton movie.

ryan gosling has his career

He was the best Bruce Banner

Yeah, Norton really was sort of a proto-Gosling. Gosling is duller but "nicer" and "easier" to work with. Though apparently he can be an eyeroll as well.

I can't wait to see the new Edward Norton movie.

I posted this on another thread, but in Nick Nolte's autobiography he was hired to play Edward's father in Pride And Glory. Edward Norton told everyone how to play their parts at the table read and Nick Nolte told the director he was going to slit his throat if he had to work with him, so Jon Voight got the part.

His cunty diva rep is well justified.

I thought his ass was a little saggy and his stomach looked like it had a hernia in Birdman, but he ass looked scrumptious in American History X and The Painted Veil.

When he was dating Salma Hyek and she was producing and starring in Frida, he took over the script (without being asked) and rewrote it, and was pissed when he didn't get a writing credit because he was trying to get into the screenwriters guild.

And the stories of him being a dick on AHX are legendary. You can Google it. With a bad reputation and not aging well I'm surprised he still gets work.

He's a nasty, snotty sack who has a bug up his ass because he is so ugly and rat faced.

I get the Gosling-Norton parallels but Norton had already fallen out of Hollywood's good graces by the time Gosling got going. Gosling benefited more from a combination of Heath Ledger's death and Joaquin Phoenix's I'm Still Here hiatus.

He's stuck in twee Wes Anderson hell.

Hung out with him and Courtney Love one night. Guess I’m dating myself. Very strange couple. He was very awkward and unfriendly. I was trying to imagine him fucking her but I could not get a mental image of that occurrence..

He just killed a stuntman on the recent movie he directed in Manhattan so there’s that.

@R37 - Not strange at all. Their being together was merely a professional arrangement: he wanted an 'edgier' image, and she wanted a more 'mainstream' image.

When such arrangement (contract) ran its course, he moved on to Salma, and Court moved on to even more plastic surgery (and borrowed gowns from Sharon Stone).

god dam he is one ugly mo fo

what an asshole, Norton and company told tenants in the bldg. on fire that all was under control. it wasn't, they lost ev thing and the bldg. burned down , killing a nyc fireman.

nortons prod. co. being sued.

what creepy fuks do this. . hope he is sued to death.

25th Hour and The Painted Veil were good movies and I thought he was ok in Birdman. Too bad that he is a jerk.

[quote] Shows how much i know. Never even heard of ‘Birdman!’ Will check it out now

It only won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2014.

I laughed when nobody could remember his name in that Game Night movie. He seemed like Gretchen Mol. Someone jammed down your throat as talented but really just lipless and wooden. Ryan Gosling at least exudes warmth and sexiness.

He’s too difficult to work, that’s why he doesn’t get hired.

Norton’s best performance was in Fight Club, that’s all!

His performance in Primal Fear was pretty good, R46

I liked Painted Veil and I REALLY liked the magician movie that he did right before it which got overshadowed by The Prestige. It had an incredible score.

I hate actors who overact

Had many good movies, e.g. Fight Club was very important and fitting for Western society, he combined art with commerce several times; Hulk with him was my favorite live-action superhero movie, I don't like it that much anymore, but I still like it the most from live-action superhero movies, and I like action movies, if one doesn't like action movies this statement doesn't mean much. He also had good chemistry with Liv Tyler; he did play a senior role in the fourth Jason Bourne movie, he could age into such roles, if he accepts being a third-line supporting actor. Not good times for intelligence and intelligent movies and intelligent commercial tv and cin. I guess the movie was Primal Fear (not from an English-speaking coun), with Richard Gere, pretty scary, don't like scary stuff that much.

Very hammy actor.

Always has a smug expression, because, he is, smug.

He looks like an accountant at a no name small firm. How could someone who looks like that ever make it as a movie star?

^exactly.

His new project is directing Motherless Brooklyn. It was a great novel, hope he does it justice.

[quote]nobody ever said, I can't wait to see the new Edward Norton movie.

There was a point when I couldn't "wait to see the new Edward Norton movie." It ended sometime between Fight Club and Smoochy, when tales of his assholity began to surface.

[quote]His new project is directing Motherless Brooklyn. It was a great novel, hope he does it justice.

He's starring in it, too. I loved the book.

Why does he think he can direct better than any director—and should control every project he’s on? Is he really a good director (himself)?

Death to Smoochy pretty much killed his career

Agree with R52. And the lispy high voice doesn't help matters.

r35, not sure I get the Gosling-Norton parallels, or the Phoenix-Ledger-Gosling argument. Norton, Phoenix and Ledger are all talented character actors, whatever their personality problems.

I haven't heard too much about Gosling being difficult to work with or having major psycho dramas like the others, but the guy can barely emote. I'm not sure who's career he has, but he would never fill Ledger's or Phoenix's shoes, or Norton's for that matter.

I can’t wait to see the next Ed Norton movie!

I feel like after hanging out with Courtney Love, bad things happen to you.

R35 Gosling knows how to present hole to get his roles Norton does not.

William Peterson played a much hotter Will Graham than Edward Norton.

However, EN looked sexy with a beard in The Italian Job.

He and Naomi Watts were great in The Painted Veil. Highly recommended if you like sophisticated, old fashioned, period dramas.

I've never heard him lisp, r59. Present evidence ASAP.

[quote]He's in the same drawer of forgettables as Josh Charles.

Well at least he gets to costar on Broadway with Armie Hammer in Straight White Men.

Anyway for my money, Norton's best moment in film was in Spike Lee's The 25th Hour.

[quote]He's in the same drawer of forgettables as Josh Charles.

Josh Charles, "forgettable"? As if.

r63 feed my fantasy, which roles did Gosling present hole for? Say it wasn't the United States of Leland. Spacey shouldn't have been allowed to taint that taint.

His nadir was when he did that legendarily bad Will Smith movie where he plays business partners of Will Smith who hire actors to manipulate grieving Smith to sell his share of the company or law firm or whatever it was.

Life is too short to watch Will Smith movies.

I can't understand all this negative attitude! Ed Norton is ICONIC! Ask Ralph and Alice!! I think of him every time I pass a sewer!

He has an unsightly facial mole. Who wants to look at that?

Mole troll, I like your mutterings as much as you like moles. Please die in a grease cauterization. Do it now.

I thought he was very good in The Painted Veil, which had a beautiful, haunting score.

As we say in the sewer, here's mud in your eye!

I think he looks better with a beard because it hides his jowls, weak chin, and thin lips. He looked his best in The Illusionist because he still had his natural hairline, which was sexy. After his hair transplant he got less attractive.

R71- That will be my new daily affirmation.

he was reduced to a guest star role in Modern Family! How low can you go??

Isn't Ryan Gosling considered a dreamboat, a sexy symbol. Ed Norton was NEVER considered hot so I don't get the comparison.

Edward, to me, always seemed like the boy next door. It’s a shame about the asshole in real life thing!

He would have been good as Timothy Mc Veigh

As long as he is good on screen, do we really care how big a jerk he is behind the scenes? I never understand why the general public cares what any performer is like behind the scenes. I can understand not wanting to work with him but 99.99999% of us will never do that anyway.

I'm not excusing any serious character flaws, or nasty behaviour, but I have always found him to be very, very sexy. To his detractors here, one doesn't need to be handsome or beautiful to be sexy. I'm ordinarily not keen on blondes, but he does possess some je nai se quoi.

I also thought he was incredibly hot for 10 years or so after "Primal Fear". Haven't seen him in anything in years.

Super sexy

Doughy

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Not pictured above is his equally adorbs daughter Gazeteer.

[quote] Not pictured above is his equally adorbs daughter Gazeteer.

Is that really her name?

His wife looks kinda meth-y

R91, he can do better than her.

Edward Norton once saved DiCaprio's life scuba diving

Too bad Ed wasn't on the Titanic looking out for Leo.

R93, well, everybody makes mistakes.

R95 = Claire Danes!

Gosling is much better looking, funnier and sexier. Norton's Grandfather was James Rouse who was a major real estate developer. He built some of the largest malls and projects in the US. He doesn't need any money from acting, hence the term "Fuck You Money"

R98, no one over 12 yrs old says "adorbs" anymore.

You're in your 60s, dear.

Norton=heavy hung Gosling=sex bomb

R98 I'm getting there, dear. Shame on me. By the way, you're talking to yourself again: are you in your 90s? Maybe you meant R89?

R91

The baby looks like Richard Dreyfus.

Didn’t he date Kim carnes?

R83 I don't think most of the general public cares or even knows much about his behind the scenes behavior. He was never really a tabloid type personality. The subject is what happened to his career. He was expected to be one of the greats. What happened was that he couldn't get along with his bosses and coworkers and most people in his business decided he wasn't worth the trouble.

R91 Lmao! He does look like Dreyfus!

His wife is a hag. But then so was Courtney Love. He obviously has questionable taste in women. Maybe he thinks he can "improve" them.

Can you imagine Avengers 1,2,3 and Thor: Ragnorok with Edward Norton?

[quote] His wife is a hag. But then so was Courtney Love. He obviously has questionable taste in women.

Or maybe he's gay? Gay men don't care about the looks of their female beards.

He's not a great actor. I'm sure the same people who think James Woods is great think Ed is. Both ugly.

Didn't he just do a voice of one of the dogs in Wes Anderson's latest movie?

Good show that's probably a Trump allegory.

i would fuck him hard like a whore he is and then never acknowledge him again

R101 I agree, looks so much like a little baby Richard Dreyfuss. Wow!

R109 Isle of Dogs is really great. Totally enjoyed it. And yes there is something there about authority, corruption, but I don't think it's a Trumpian parable, per se. Wes Anderson had probably already been kicking this idea around for years. It takes a lot of time to realize a claymation movie from idea to finished product.

Erm R50? Fight Club was not a work of art. It was a poseur movie.

I love Death to Smoochy. I don't even consider it a guilty pleasure.

Same here, R114

I can't wait to see the Bruce Willis Roast. When it came time for Willis to roast the panel he hit Norton with "You've rubbed more people the wrong way than Harvey Weinstein."

He was never a big deal. B list is stretching it.

R117 that isn't true. He was a big deal in the 90s. People tolerated him because of his talent. He just annoyed to many people. I wonder if his directorial debut, Leap of Faith, hurt him. It was basically a rom com, nothing special. I expected something more interesting from him. It was no secret that he didn't just act on his earlier films. He argued with the writers and directors. That kind of behavior is okay if you're truly brilliant and have good instincts. That Leap of Faith movie made me doubt his instincts and if he had any talent other than acting. There's nothing wrong with only being a very talented actor, but he fronted as being more than that.

R6 Norton's Hulk was pretty stellar, though, and this coming from someone who is not a fan of his. It wasn't quite as interesting as Ang Lee's vision for Eric Bana - but then in this genre, what else is?

That '08 adaptation as a whole was superior to the superhero films we're getting now. The casting was superb (Tyler is lovely, Roth is a highlight), the story tight and gritty, the visuals clear and sharp. Even the CGI has dated rather well. It's a film about the horror and aching loneliness of being a mutant (like Singer's X-MEN: UNITED/X2) in a world that has no place for them, as opposed to this barrage of AVENGERS/JUSTICE LEAGUE type films of the Now which turns these characters into mundane cartoon characters.

Edward knows how to take a big one

He has a sexy voice still

I never thought he had a "sexy" voice. In no way is Edward Norton sexy.