The film's supporting cast includes Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts. With a brief exception, Birdman is presented as though it was filmed in one continuous take, an idea Iñárritu had from the film's conception.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. With Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Kenny Chin, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe. A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

2021年12月8日 · We watch the characters interact outside of performing in the play, but their identities — specifically, Edward Norton as Mike, a cocky, young actor who joins the production before getting...

2014年10月21日 · In the new black comedy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Edward Norton costars as a pretentious and self-absorbed but very talented and edgy theater actor who has been cast in...

As Mike Shiner, a veteran stage actor and confirmed hellion who complicates the plans of a one-time action star (Michael Keaton) staging his comeback on Broadway, Norton’s fantastic. Furthermore, he says that he relished the chance to play the sort of ham he’d encountered during his own life in show business.

Also confronting his real-life reputation is Edward Norton as Mike Shiner, the brilliant but infamously capricious actor who steps in as Riggan’s co-star just as previews are about to begin on his labor-of-love production of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Norton, who’s come with the baggage of being difficult and ...

2014年10月31日 · For Norton, saying yes to a role in “Birdman” was “a foregone conclusion” based on writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s previous work, including 2006 best-picture nominee “Babel”...

Mike Shiner : Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige. Mike Shiner : Does she speak? Sam : She does. Yeah, she can sit, stay, and roll over if you have any treats. Mike Shiner : A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. Mike Shiner : Is this water?

It stars Michael Keaton, with a supporting cast of Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts. The story follows protagonist Riggan Thomson, a faded Hollywood actor famous for his role as superhero Birdman, as he struggles to mount a Broadway adaptation of a short story by Raymond Carver.