The fire that destroyed Southern California last month caused many of Malibu’s most precious places to turn too much ashes. But like the legendary Shangri-La studio, some still stand. For many years, Shangri-La has been used by some of the biggest names in the music business, including Eric Clapton and Adele. However, it is also known as the house built by Bob Dylan. Even the old buses, which Legend has, used on tours by Dylan.
Dylan even camped on the grass. “In fact, I think there was a time when Dylan had a tent in Rose Garden here,” actor Edward Norton said.
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To him, this is sacred ground. In a way, so is his latest film role. In “The Completely Unknown,” Norton is the folk music legend Pete Seager, who plays the opposite side of Timote Chalamett as the young Bob Dylan.
Norton says it’s sublime and terrifying to play a musical legend like Seager. “I think every actor, some of them want to be rock stars, right?” he said. “I think every actor has a dream in a way. I mean, I started crying with thoughts about it. A biography about Dylan – if you just said it, I would say I thought so, like I have a mythical kind of place for me, I thought so. It’s a really bad idea.”
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And here’s just one of the challenges. Pete Seager was a skilled banjo player, so Norton had to become one as well, and banjos are hard to learn.
“We interviewed Steve Martin. He plays banjos for us and we watch him play banjos. So it’s so complicated and so fast.”
“Yeah, I was joking on Google, and then Norton laughed, “Are there any AI that can replace my hands with Steve Martin’s?” “Or you know, you know, you put your arms on your back and Steve Martin puts your hands under my armpits and plays for me? mosquito?”
In the finished film, his performance looks authentic.
That authenticity is something Norton has always worked for, starting with his first film role as the calculation killer in the 1996 thriller Primal Fear. Growing up in Maryland, Norton grew Appalachian accents and people thought he was actually from Kentucky, so he got caught up in his first Oscar nomination. Three years later, he was fighting Brad Pitt in “Fight Club.” This is a film that is embedded in our culture.
And it has a huge following now, but when it was released it was not a success. “No, not at all,” Norton said. “And it was polarising. I would say there were people who absolutely attacked them at the heart of their own senses, and there were people who thought it was garbage.
In fact, it was booed round at the Venice Film Festival. But that didn’t bother Norton or his co-star Pitt. “As the credits rolled, Brad looked at me in a dark cry and he said, ‘It’s the best movie we’ve ever had.’ And I said, “I think so too,” and we were holding each other in tears. Whether or not you go out. ”
Norton, like the calm police captain of the Grand Budapest Hotel, flew his own freak flag in over 40 movies. He was an ego-led Broadway actor in “Birdman.” And he nailed the eccentric billionaire part of “glass onion.”
It’s hard to see him on screen and believe Norton was told there was nothing needed to make it as an actor. There was once a casting director who told him, “find another profession.”
“Yeah, I had one of them. Someone will sit you down and say, ‘You should do something else,'” he said. “A very, very well-known casting director in New York. One of the things you wanted to enter before. The path you chose, and you can’t push through it, then you probably belong It’s not there.”
There is little doubt that he belongs to all of this. Norton has Oscar nominations every ten years of his career. He is now running for work in “the complete unknown.” But he says for him it’s not about awards or money, but an opportunity to guide greatness.
He said, “If you channel frequency, you refocus on what people look like when people use talent, they have to seek ideas and values that are bigger than they are. – Are you engaged, moved and inspired by the artist’s ideas as an agent of change?
And it’s easy to believe in him, whether Edward Norton is a pure artist or just a truly amazing actor.
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A story created by John Damelio. Editor: Remington Korper.
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