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Edward Norton had no idea what was just around the river bend.
The 53-year-old appeared as a guest on Tuesday’s premiere of PBS’s “Finding your Roots,” a show that traces the family tree of entertainers and public figures, where the actor learned that he’s distantly related to Pocahontas.
The “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” star, alongside the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., found out that the legendary Powhatan woman — whose tragic life was romanticized by Disney in the eponymous 1995 flick — is, in fact, Norton’s 12th great-grandmother.
“I understand that was family lore,” said Gates to Norton, whose family had long claimed that they were related to the iconic indigenous figure. “Well, it is absolutely true.”
“Oh my god,” murmured the shocked Golden Globe Award winner, in a clip posted by Gates on Twitter.
Pocahontas, born around 1596, hailed from the Tidewater region of Virginia, where she was met with English settlers to Jamestown during the early 17th century.
