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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite

Norton and Wilde laugh together, he in black shirt and trousers, she in loose open-necked striped shirt and pleated baggy trousers
‘There was a lot of pre-existing comfort and trust’ ... Norton and Wilde. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Earlier this week, Edward Norton took a night flight from New York to London and felt so dreadful the next day he decided to get a massage. “I hadn’t had one in such a long time,” he says, “and I almost started crying. You’re like: ‘Oh! Ah!’”

He has heard similar sounds from cinemas screening his new movie, The Invite, which is about the devastating impact of marriage on your sex life. “People are almost tearful. They’re like: ‘I haven’t had a good, adult laugh that made me feel seen in a long time.’”

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