bshaddo t1_je52dx1 wrote on March 29, 2023 at 1:57 PM

Reply to comment by mnombo in What actor had the greatest opening one-two punch debut in film history? by bolshevik_rattlehead

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.

WoodyMellow t1_je5ei71 wrote on March 29, 2023 at 3:19 PM

What? You just named three film credits...

bshaddo t1_je5kadv wrote on March 29, 2023 at 3:56 PM

All released after they were filmed.

Key-Training-9303 t1_je6btjs wrote on March 29, 2023 at 6:50 PM

Like most films

CutterJohn t1_je88p73 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:02 AM

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.