Norton might be best known for his blockbuster Hollywood roles, but the actor is also a committed environmentalist and successful entrepreneur
Actor Edward Norton on environmental activism: ‘If you find it inconvenient, I think that’s precisely the f**king point’
“I’m always a little reluctant to play that game of pretending you can only do one thing in life,” he says later, as we sit in a nicely ornate ante chamber in the RDS. “I just don’t find that to be authentic. Creative life is not a nine-to-five job. It never has been for me and I never really wanted it to be. I’m not knocking people who do three films a year, but it’s never been my relationship to it. I don’t think I can do good work in an industrialised way.it.
“Today a lot of people will use ‘virtue signalling’ as a phrase. The funny thing is, my relationship to this isn’t driven by wanting to be a ‘white knight’. I just think it’s fun. My grandfather and my father and my mother, they always seemed like they were having a ball. And they were never hung up on money ... They just looked like they were having the best time.
America has become so maximal. The whole culture is just insisting you must and should go for the biggest version of whatever you’re doing A banking sustainability conference is very much the straight world, though. He laughs. “This is the straight world for sure,” he says. “I always feel like an interloper. I put on a suit jacket because it’s a bank. I feel like I shouldn’t show up in the techie black hoodie. That’s my conservative Irish roots or something.”
Does he see a connection between his political and social activism and his film work? He didn’t in the past, he says, but that’s changed a bit. “The best side of it is people who are just coming up with unbelievably brilliant stuff, that’s fully inspiring,” he says. “This thing we’re at is hardcore institutional, right? But it seems to me that there’s good intention within it. It takes a long time for big institutions to really adopt things, but I don’t think it’s bullshit. It’s important to get people in the room to talk about this stuff.”“Some people need to be called out,” he says.
How did he feel after the election of Trump, a man who promised to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels?the election,” he says. “I’d been out of the United States all summer. I finished doing the film about Dylan. Then in Europe a good bit and then in Canada. And when I came back to the US in September, I felt the aggression of the US, not just the political divisiveness.
“The more I see someone going for the biggest version of whatever they’re doing, the narrower their life actually is,” he says. “And some of that narrowness is what is, I think, producing a lack of empathy. These are people aren’t actually even seeing the wider experience of other people any more. They have this almost Nietzschean like ‘will to power’ ...
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