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Unveiled: the Real Edward Norton: Like all Method-trained actors, Norton's onscreen presence is remarkable for its attention to detail, based as it is on extensive research and study.

Amazon.co.uk: The Score [2001]: Video: Robert De Niro,Edward Norton, Marlon Brando,Frank Oz:
-az rvw: In the heist thriller The Score director Frank Oz partners Robert De Niro with hotshot upstart Edward Norton and heavyweight legend Marlon Brando. De Niro plays a weary thief tempted by wily old associate Brando into, yes, one last job. You'd have to be determinedly grumpy not to get half a kick out of Brando, De Niro and Norton--more than holding his own--coolly bouncing off one another in a Method paradise.

-What the plot lacks in originality it more than makes for it with sheer class. The big heist is well set up and executed and it really is such a joy to watch old pros like Brando & De Niro together at last. However its Edward Norton's performance that almost steals the movie alternating between master thief and a clever masquerade as a mentally challenged cleaner to gain access to the Custom House. He proves beyond doubt that he's more than a match for the Method masters.
A comfortable way to spend a few hours watching great actors at work. The Score elevates itself above the normal run of the mill heist movie through sheer Method acting class.

The real international man of mystery - Times Online the 37-year-old Boston native and twice Oscar-nominated actor explaining the allure of his latest character creation, Eisenheim the magician, from The Illusionist:“As a person he is highly impenetrable,” Norton says. “But onstage he comes to life, and has this amazing presence.” He is describing himself. Only he doesn’t know it. For, offstage, here in a quiet London hotel room, Norton is an elusive, unfathomable creature, a whipsmart Yale graduate and polymath ..
An Oscar nomination for Primal Fear and a string of intense roles established Norton’s reputation as a Method perfectionist, putting on 30lb of muscular bulk for American History X (1998) and losing it all for Fight Club (1999).

Master of the Method: Edward Norton’s finest hours:

American History X (directed by Tony Kaye, 1998) Norton snagged his second Best Actor Oscar nomination (the first was for Primal Fear) as the beefed-up and heavily tattooed neo-Nazi Derek Vinyard in this potent exploration of American racism.

Fight Club (David Fincher, 2000) The press at the time was all about Brad, and his abs, and his uncapped teeth. But Fight Club would be nothing without Norton’s cleverly grounded deadpan narration and sympathetic physical turn as an Everyman on the brink of 21st-century insanity.

25th Hour ( pictured above) (Spike Lee, 2002) Lee’s impassioned love letter to an embattled post9/11 New York is buttressed by Norton’s performance as the convicted drug dealer Monty Brogan. His raging and expletive-filled five-minute monologue at the centre of the movie is astounding.

Down in the Valley (David Jacobson, 2005) The movie was 20 minutes too long, but Norton’s performance as a Californian sociopath who pretends to be a Mid-western ranch hand is one of contemporary American film’s finest turns. Worth it for his Taxi Driver riff alone.

The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2007) Possibly his most punishingly restrained performance yet, as an uptight English bacteriologist fighting cholera in rural 1920s China. This forthcoming adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel co-stars Naomi Watts as his long-suffering wife.

COMMENTS
-Edward Norton is, without a doubt, the most talented actor to liven the cinematic scene in a long time. His performances bring such an intensity that one is nudged into remembering other true actors, i.e., Bogart, Tracy, Peck.
Mr. Norton's use of the nonverbal (body language) to add a "quiet" emphasis to his spoken words is phenomenal. jason dohring. I recommend everyone relook at the scene from Kingdom of Heaven when Balian (Orlando Bloom) meets King Baldwin (Edward Norton) for the first time. Mr. Norton's body language is so powerful....the gloved, leperous hand lovingly touching the chess pieces, the tilt of the head, the blue eyes of his masked face showing the King's nature and feelings
-Will he direct again? "Keeping the Faith", I thought, was a solid effort, and Edward Norton does quite a good drunk scene. "I'm Irish. This stuff is like milk to me". It was a film that was all heart.
-I just come from see The painted veil. Is incredible the two faces acting. The best actor. Ee always makes me feel the story and today de History of China (a bit little).
And very inteligent. I'd wish to know him. naireh, Madrid, Spain