Article: The new Edwardianism. (interview with actor Edward Norton)(Cover Story)(Interview)

The elusive, electrifying, erupting Edward Norton

At the end of last year's Primal Fear, lawyer Richard Gere turns to leave the young hick he's successfully defended in a murder trial. But then he does a double take and turns back. Why? The kid has made a verbal slip, revealing that he is not a terrified runt at all, but a callous killer. The look on Gere's face says everything that the audience feels: How could I be taken in by this. . . this nobody? Precisely because the somebody who played this nobody was Edward Norton, acting in his first feature.

Since Primal Fear, Norton has played Larry Flynt's put-upon lawyer, Alan Isaacman, in Milos Forman's The ...

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