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mnombo t1_je41mwz wrote

Edward norton

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bolshevik_rattlehead OP t1_je41v69 wrote

Wow you’re right. You win. Although he’s maintained a great career, that’s gotta be in the top debuts of all time. I was blown away the first time I saw Primal Fear.

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bshaddo t1_je52dx1 wrote

Primal Fear, The People vs Larry Flint, and Everyone Says I Love You. All good-to-great performances, all before he had a film credit to his name.

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WoodyMellow t1_je5ei71 wrote

What? You just named three film credits...

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bshaddo t1_je5kadv wrote

All released after they were filmed.

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Key-Training-9303 t1_je6btjs wrote

Like most films

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CutterJohn t1_je88p73 wrote

The point is their release date was after norton had finished acting in all three of them. As in he did all the acting work for those three films, then they released. So he got those roles based solely on how the studio saw him as an actor, with no fame or name recognition attached.

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