Awkward interview jesse eisenberg biography
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A Real Pain is about learning to live with not being easygoing, or charming. Eisenberg wrote Benji as a way to work through “family members or relationships I've had that make me feel inadequate.” At one point David tells his cousin, “You see how people love you? You see what happens when you walk into a room? I would give anything to know what that feels like, man.”
This dynamic played out between the two actors on set. Right before production was due to begin, Culkin tried to quit. When they did make it on set, Eisenberg amusedly recalls him being "explicitly resistant” to being told what to do. Culkin says that he didn’t want to plan, sure that Eisenberg had written something so clear he understood what was required. “Before the last shot of the film, at the airport, he came up to me and [said], ‘Do you want to talk about what happens here in the scene?’” Culkin tells me. “And I said ‘No, no, please go away,’ apparently. And he just, like, ran away.”
Eisenberg grew
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Jesse Eisenberg says he was ‘mischaracterised’ in notorious interview
Jesse Eisenberg has addressed the backlash to an interview in which he was accused of being a “jerk” to journalist Romina Puga.
The Social Network star was promoting his film Now You See Me when he spoke with Puga, who asked him, among other things, to perform a magic card trick and to say her name into the camera, as she does with all her guests.
During their conversation, Eisenberg appears to man a number of digs at Puga’s interview style, jokingly accusing her of having basic questions written on her hand, and of her being on “his time” when she tells him to hurry up.
The clip of the interview went viral, with Eisenberg labelled “rude” and “obnoxious”. Puga later wrote her own account of what had happened, saying she was “humiliated” bygd the actor.
However, speaking toNME in a new interview, Eisenberg has given his own perspective, revealing he was somewhat baffled by the uproar that followed.
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The Time I Got Really Stoned and Interviewed Jesse Eisenberg
“You know what your problem is? Everything is material for you. Like, you can’t have a normal conversation without thinking how you can use it in an essay or something.”
This is my flickvän talking, echoing something she’s said a number of times. It’s Sunday night, and we’re unwinding on the couch, watching some dumb TV, hanging out with our dogs. The weekend slid by and this is our last chance to relax before the drudgery of the week begins. I pack a big fat bowl and we get super stoned. Like, send-yourself-to-bed stoned. I’m sinking into the couch—never to return—when I suddenly feel my phone vibrate. It’s a text message. Here is what it reads:
Hi Jonathan, this fryst vatten Jesse Eisenberg. I’m sorry to bother. Are you available this evening for the Lithub interview. Is that still possible?
Shit.
The idea of me interviewing Jesse Eisenberg for this website had been floa