Saturday
15Nov2008
Edward Norton as Twins in 'Leaves of Grass'
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 1:57AM
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That is
Edward Norton
on the right and Edward Norton on the left. It's a shot from his new drama,
Leaves of
Grass, written and directed by
Tim Blake
Nelson, and in the film, Norton plays twin brothers.
"The movie pits two philosophies against one another, as depicted by the same actor," Nelson told MTV. "One is a rationalist, and one is a hedonist. And the movie explores those two approaches on how to live a life.”
Of his star's performance, Nelson had plenty of praise. "You couldn’t believe that it was the same actor playing the two; it was just breathtaking,” he said. We've seen this sort of thing before, and I think Nic Cage did it about as well as you could hope for in Adaptation., and like that film, these brothers appear to be headed in different directions in their lives.
Nelson, the actor best known for playing slow-witted Delmar in O Brother Where Art Thou? but who has directed several films in the past, says that there were plenty of issues with one actor playing two characters, often in the same scene.
“There were technical challenges to be sure…and so we did motion control and split-screen approaches, depending on the needs of the scene, and I think that will work really well…We always had to do both characters in the same day, because the camera was blocked off. It was always one character for the first half of the day, and the other character for the second.”Leaves of Grass just finished filming, and Nelson is going into the editing bay soon.
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