In an interview with the Onion A.V. Club, actor Edward Norton reveals the secret origin of his character’s look in The Illusionist:

The Illusionist is sort of a fantasy. There were aspects of the real history of the Austrian-Hungarian empire that are interesting, but they don’t particularly apply in that film. To be totally honest, the first thing I did was go, “Okay, in the script, this guy is an extremely magnetic, sort of darkly enigmatic character.” And something in me just said, “You’ve got to figure out how this guy looks.” And my whole entry point to that, literally, was the Marvel comic Dr. Strange. I was like, “I want to look like Dr. Strange!” [Laughs.] I literally showed the comic book to the makeup artist I work with a lot and said, “This is what we’re going for.” And that was a fantastic entry point for me, because I don’t wake up in the morning and feel like Eisenheim, you know what I mean? I felt like in order to pull that role off, I had to create an aura.

Is there anything Stephen Strange can’t do?

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