Edward Norton
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884 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Edward Norton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's guiding us collectively on how to find this thing on the fly.
And even saying things to us like...
we're going to stitch the parachute on the way down, but it's going to open.
And by that, I mean, she not only encouraged, but actually kind of asked of us that we create our own characters.
In many dimensions, Penelope's character wasn't Spanish.
Penelope brought in her interest in
menopause and hormones and the Esther Perel of it all brings that all in and creates this character, Pina, that is so striking and so dynamic and forceful and aspirational.
And Olivia said to me, like my character's name is literally specific to a friend of mine, his story.
There's a lot of things that my friend Julian Sands, the actor who died a
a few years ago, the stuff about the rugs and the carpets.
Those were things he said to me when he walked into my apartment one time.
And it wasn't just that Olivia didn't tighten up.
It was that she did something I've never done, which is she shot the film in page order, right?
And basically said, I don't think we're going to end up
in the same place that's on the page.
I think we're going to end up in a deeper place, but we're not going to know what it is or even how we're going to get there until we march through these beats.
But if we do them in order, each one will feed into the next and we will keep discovering how much this can bear as we go.
Now, that all sounds super creatively sexy, but when you're making a film and hundreds of people are standing around and you're saying as a director, we're going to kind of make this up as we go, and I mean really make it up as we go, to stay in a state of...
of not just equanimity, but one in which you're relishing it so much that you're giving that performance while allowing for that much uncertainty, it is like right up there with the most impressive things that I've seen a director do.
I will throw down and say in 30 years making films,
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