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...breezy caper, Oz assured De Niro that it would be rewritten as a more character-driven piece. Oz got the 77-year-old Brando on board, paying him about $3 million for three weeks of work, after a couple of meetings at the actor's home. And Norton, 31, says he joined the cast simply because "if someone called me and said we've got Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro and we're gonna film a reading of the phone book, I would...
...Brando who supplied most of the offscreen drama and humor. You may have read that he shot his close-ups naked from the waist down when The Score was on location in Montreal last summer. Those reports were greatly exaggerated. "It was hot," explains Norton, "and Marlon was sweating through his suit, so he put on shorts instead of the suit pants. It was the most practical, simple thing...
...Niro and Norton also contributed their creative ideas. Unhappy with the film's heist scenes, De Niro recruited a technical consultant--a friend with a shady past who knew about cracking safes and such--to show the screenwriters how it should be done. "There's no point in doing it if there's no authenticity," says De Niro, whose character now blows the door off a safe the way a professional would--from the inside out, by pumping it full of water...
Meanwhile, Norton made extensive script revisions, especially in scenes he shared with De Niro. "There were moments on this movie when Bob and I disagreed," says Norton, "when Frank and I disagreed intensely and when Frank and Marlon butted heads. But the assumption that conflict is bad is wrong. It's just creative wrestling." In the end, the movie worked out fine, and it has been getting good response from preview audiences. "I don't care about tension on the set if it's all about the movie and the character," says Oz, who admits he learned a valuable lesson...
...GALE NORTON Interior Secretary...