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Edward Norton: 'Motherless Brooklyn'

WNYC's The Takeaway

English - November 07, 2019 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 585 ratings
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Edward Norton, writer, director and star of 'Motherless Brooklyn', discusses the time-traveling and imperatives that attracted him to this private eye story.

In 1999, Edward Norton read the novel 'Motherless Brooklyn' by Jonathan Lethem, and thought there could be a movie in it. Twenty years later, he brought it to the screen as writer, director and star, and shifted the setting to take place four decades earlier. He discusses the time-traveling and the imperatives, moral and otherwise, that attracted him to a private eye story.

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