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Edward Norton is part of the select group of Hollywood actors who achieved fame at a young age and just in his first big role on the big screen. We cannot forget that in 1998, at just 21 years old, he played a neo-Nazi in ‘American History X’, a project that made him one of the great promises of the film industry.
As a result of his successful debut, important projects came to his career, such as ‘The Fight Club’ in 1999 and with the heartthrob Brad Pitt. However, not everything has been hunky-dory in the professional life of the famous, since although his career grew like foam, so did the fame of “capricious”.
And it is that Norton’s “arrogant” and “bossy” attitude would have been difficult to tolerate even for the directors of the tapes in which he participated. One of the most commented episodes was directed towards Tony Kaye, director of American History X; according to production He would have harassed him with questions and questions with the intention of modifying his dialogues.
It was after passing through said film, Edward Norton signed a contract with Paramount, so the project options came from everywhere. Nevertheless, he rejected each and every one because they were not up to his standards and that if he couldn’t make modifications to his character, he wasn’t going to take them.
His criteria for choosing films remained firm until 2001, when he decided to be part of the film ‘Cuenta final’; yes, just for the fact of working with Robert De Niro. Two years later she would leave the refusals aside to work on ‘The master swindle’, film he did not want to do, but “they forced him”.
Edward Norton and his departure from ‘Hulk’
Another of the moments that showed his “strong character” occurred during the recordings of ‘Hulk’ (2007). The one who initially refused to give life to the Marvel superhero did not prevent his desire to modify dialogues and make changes to the script from arising.
This caused several scenes that had already been filmed to have to be repeatedwhich generated loss of time, money and, once again, lawsuits with his scene partners.
A single installment as this iconic character from ‘The Avengers’ was the only thing that Norton obtained, since he was fired and Mark Ruffalo joined in his place: “We want someone who shares the creative and collaborative spirit of the rest of the cast.“, mentioned the famous producer.
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