PODCAST: Edward Norton and Tim Blake Nelson

Newly released on DVD and Blu-ray this week is writer-director-actor Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, starring two-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton:

LEAVES OF GRASS is a comic thriller seen through the dual perspectives of identical twins, both played by Norton). Bill, a classical philosophy professor at Brown University, returns home upon news of his brother Brady's murder in a drug deal gone awry. Bill quickly learns that Brady's death has been grossly exaggerated, as he's swept up into one of his brother's crazy schemes. Alongside his eccentric mother (Susan Sarandon) and a beautiful woman named Janet (Keri Russell), Bill participates in his brother's wild plan, leading him on a twisted path filled with unique characters and life's most challenging questions. Also starring Richard Dreyfuss and writer-director Tim Blake Nelson, the film merges crime drama, drug comedy, and classical philosophy, as it attempts to answer one of the oldest questions in the world: What does it truly mean to be happy?

Last March in Austin, during the SXSW Film Festival, I sat down with Nelson and Norton to discuss the technical and performance logistics of single-handedly playing twins, smoking joints (and fake joints), Horatio's "golden mean," and the reason nobody makes pot dramas.

To listen to the podcast, click here. (14:42)

Podcast Music
INTRO: Cab Calloway: "Reefer Man"
OUTRO: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: "Seeds and Stems (Again)"

Posted by ahillis at October 17, 2010 7:50 AM