The three-time Academy Award nominee, Edward Norton, has recently been seen in a broad spectrum of projects, tickling audiences in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion, as a billionaire buffoon, a playwright in Wes Anderson's acclaimed Asteroid City, as well as Seth Rogan’s outrageous Prime animated series Sausage Party: Foodtopia as an alarmingly charismatic bagel. Now, Norton is back to grounded reality in James Mangold’s much anticipated Bob Dylan musical biopic, A Complete Unknown.
From the director of Walk The Line comes a pivotal story of astronomically famous singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (in a career-topping performance by Timothée Chalamet). Beginning in Minnesota to the folk houses of Greenwich Village in New York City, A Complete Unknown follows Dylan through to his controversial 1965 concert at the Newport Folk Festival, becoming one of the most memorable moments in rock ‘n’ roll history. In the film, Norton plays folk troubadour, Pete Seeger, writer of iconic protest songs and mentor to Dylan. In addition to Norton, the film co-stars Elle Fanning (The Great), Monica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick) as Joan Baez, and Scoot McNairy (Speak No Evil) as Woody Guthrie.
In this interview, Collider’s Perri Nemiroff sits down with Norton to discuss McNairy’s quiet and beautiful portrayal of Guthrie, the skills required for the role of Seeger and how the film compares musically to 2002's Death To Smoochy, and how an audio clip of Seeger’s laugh helped Norton tap into his take on Seeger.
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