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The Loose Grip: How Norton Holds His Career
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Dax frames his central fascination with Norton: from the outside, Norton seems to operate with an almost serene non-attachment — declining The Avengers (and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars), taking long breaks between films, appearing immune to the volume-game mentality of the industry. But Norton corrects the record. He draws a sharp distinction between how things appear from outside and the reality inside his own head. No actor, he insists, truly shuts off the narcissistic competitive brain — the voice that asks 'Why didn't I get sent that?' or 'I would have done that better.' He is not immune to that. The conversation touches on how his grandfather's relationship to money (he gave it all away) and his own early frugality shaped his relationship to wealth, with Dax comparing him to Nick Kroll, whose billionaire father liberated him to pursue pure creative interest.
