Jesse Eisenberg
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It kind of weaves in. And the main thing I really would learn from maybe like a movie like Crimes and Misdemeanors is there are so many great, funny lines and they're thrown away, you know. And I just... wanted as much as possible to have basically jokes that were like off camera, never like a close up on a joke and the reaction to the person so we can milk the joke.
It kind of weaves in. And the main thing I really would learn from maybe like a movie like Crimes and Misdemeanors is there are so many great, funny lines and they're thrown away, you know. And I just... wanted as much as possible to have basically jokes that were like off camera, never like a close up on a joke and the reaction to the person so we can milk the joke.
So stuff like that just gives it an air of lack of obsequiousness that is trying to make the audience, you know,
So stuff like that just gives it an air of lack of obsequiousness that is trying to make the audience, you know,
So stuff like that just gives it an air of lack of obsequiousness that is trying to make the audience, you know,
You put it exactly, exactly how I've been thinking about it for such a long time, which is like I've been in so many movies where I feel like the things I'm tasked with saying would never come out of my mouth. Right. Or the character's mouth. That's what I mean. Oh no, that's exclusively what I mean. Yeah, no, I'm happy if something's not out of my mouth.
You put it exactly, exactly how I've been thinking about it for such a long time, which is like I've been in so many movies where I feel like the things I'm tasked with saying would never come out of my mouth. Right. Or the character's mouth. That's what I mean. Oh no, that's exclusively what I mean. Yeah, no, I'm happy if something's not out of my mouth.
You put it exactly, exactly how I've been thinking about it for such a long time, which is like I've been in so many movies where I feel like the things I'm tasked with saying would never come out of my mouth. Right. Or the character's mouth. That's what I mean. Oh no, that's exclusively what I mean. Yeah, no, I'm happy if something's not out of my mouth.
No, it's just like that it would never be the character. It's like that it's the writer writing a joke that they thought of. It looks good on the page. Yeah, or it's the plot of the movie and so they have to get the... And I hate that stuff so much. So yeah, that's partly why I was...
No, it's just like that it would never be the character. It's like that it's the writer writing a joke that they thought of. It looks good on the page. Yeah, or it's the plot of the movie and so they have to get the... And I hate that stuff so much. So yeah, that's partly why I was...
No, it's just like that it would never be the character. It's like that it's the writer writing a joke that they thought of. It looks good on the page. Yeah, or it's the plot of the movie and so they have to get the... And I hate that stuff so much. So yeah, that's partly why I was...
writing plays for years because basically it was like I didn't have to do any of that because you could just be in service of the character and require the plot or real fireworks or anything like that.
writing plays for years because basically it was like I didn't have to do any of that because you could just be in service of the character and require the plot or real fireworks or anything like that.
writing plays for years because basically it was like I didn't have to do any of that because you could just be in service of the character and require the plot or real fireworks or anything like that.
Because it's five minutes away from where I had family. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. This camp is... So in 2008 my wife and I Ja. trying to destroy the evidence yeah so this camp is like as you described it just feels like this eerie intimate thing it feels like it was liberated the day before yeah but also like it doesn't have the expanse that you know it just it feels like
Because it's five minutes away from where I had family. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. This camp is... So in 2008 my wife and I Ja. trying to destroy the evidence yeah so this camp is like as you described it just feels like this eerie intimate thing it feels like it was liberated the day before yeah but also like it doesn't have the expanse that you know it just it feels like
Because it's five minutes away from where I had family. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. This camp is... So in 2008 my wife and I Ja. trying to destroy the evidence yeah so this camp is like as you described it just feels like this eerie intimate thing it feels like it was liberated the day before yeah but also like it doesn't have the expanse that you know it just it feels like
So what's this new one you're working on? The new one takes place in the world of community musical theater, which is like my other love, besides, you know, the stuff in this movie, which is grief and history. Do you sing? No, but I write music, so I've written musicals, and so they haven't been produced, well, some short musicals were produced. Is this a comedy? Yeah. Yeah.
So what's this new one you're working on? The new one takes place in the world of community musical theater, which is like my other love, besides, you know, the stuff in this movie, which is grief and history. Do you sing? No, but I write music, so I've written musicals, and so they haven't been produced, well, some short musicals were produced. Is this a comedy? Yeah. Yeah.
So what's this new one you're working on? The new one takes place in the world of community musical theater, which is like my other love, besides, you know, the stuff in this movie, which is grief and history. Do you sing? No, but I write music, so I've written musicals, and so they haven't been produced, well, some short musicals were produced. Is this a comedy? Yeah. Yeah.