![]() ![]() In fact, the effort he puts into holding the screen feels born of a desire to counterbalance that, as though viewers would be in danger of drifting away were he not calling attention to the magic of performance. He’s not one of those mysterious few anointed with the innately watchable quality we call movie stardom. To watch him is to be made aware of how difficult it can be, of how active the choices he’s making are - the tilt of a head, the narrowing of an eye, the tenor of a voice. Edward Norton has never been one of them. Some people make acting look easy, vanishing into roles in ways that render all decisions about timing and technique invisible. Edward Norton and Willem Dafoe in Motherless Brooklyn. ![]()
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