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Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Well, yeah, I mean, actually, it was even more explicit than what you mentioned. It was at Auschwitz tours with lunch. So, right, so I was writing this movie that took place in Mongolia. It was about similar kind of characters, David and Benji, the characters Kieran and I play in this movie. But it was set in Mongolia, and it was just not going well.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Well, yeah, I mean, actually, it was even more explicit than what you mentioned. It was at Auschwitz tours with lunch. So, right, so I was writing this movie that took place in Mongolia. It was about similar kind of characters, David and Benji, the characters Kieran and I play in this movie. But it was set in Mongolia, and it was just not going well.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And then an ad popped up online for Auschwitz tours with lunch. And I just thought, you know, well, first, like, I must be the target demographic for that advertisement. But also... Like, it was just so profound in its simplicity. It spoke to so many awkward modern things, which is just like, you know, we want to tour sites of horror and, you know, kind of wonder, like, why do we want to do that?

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And then an ad popped up online for Auschwitz tours with lunch. And I just thought, you know, well, first, like, I must be the target demographic for that advertisement. But also... Like, it was just so profound in its simplicity. It spoke to so many awkward modern things, which is just like, you know, we want to tour sites of horror and, you know, kind of wonder, like, why do we want to do that?

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And then an ad popped up online for Auschwitz tours with lunch. And I just thought, you know, well, first, like, I must be the target demographic for that advertisement. But also... Like, it was just so profound in its simplicity. It spoke to so many awkward modern things, which is just like, you know, we want to tour sites of horror and, you know, kind of wonder, like, why do we want to do that?

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

What are we doing when we're doing that? And then also we want to maintain the creature comforts that we have in our lives. So that's the with lunch part. And so, you know, I clicked on the ad, and it took me to a site for, you know, what you would imagine English-speaking –

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

What are we doing when we're doing that? And then also we want to maintain the creature comforts that we have in our lives. So that's the with lunch part. And so, you know, I clicked on the ad, and it took me to a site for, you know, what you would imagine English-speaking –

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

What are we doing when we're doing that? And then also we want to maintain the creature comforts that we have in our lives. So that's the with lunch part. And so, you know, I clicked on the ad, and it took me to a site for, you know, what you would imagine English-speaking –

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

heritage tour of Poland that culminates at Auschwitz and it was just so interesting just like posed all these interesting philosophical questions like you know why do we do tragedy tourism and why don't we try to connect to this kind of history in a way that feels less you know comfortable

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

heritage tour of Poland that culminates at Auschwitz and it was just so interesting just like posed all these interesting philosophical questions like you know why do we do tragedy tourism and why don't we try to connect to this kind of history in a way that feels less you know comfortable

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

heritage tour of Poland that culminates at Auschwitz and it was just so interesting just like posed all these interesting philosophical questions like you know why do we do tragedy tourism and why don't we try to connect to this kind of history in a way that feels less you know comfortable

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, one of the kind of ironies with Kieran's character in the movie, you know, as you said, he kind of plays this incredibly charming and manic guy. But he also just is privately suffering from severe depression. I mean, severe, like, you know, you know, wondering if he wants to go on with his life.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, one of the kind of ironies with Kieran's character in the movie, you know, as you said, he kind of plays this incredibly charming and manic guy. But he also just is privately suffering from severe depression. I mean, severe, like, you know, you know, wondering if he wants to go on with his life.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Yeah, exactly. Like, you know, one of the kind of ironies with Kieran's character in the movie, you know, as you said, he kind of plays this incredibly charming and manic guy. But he also just is privately suffering from severe depression. I mean, severe, like, you know, you know, wondering if he wants to go on with his life.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And one of the dramatic ironies in the movie is that our grandmother survived, as I say in the movie, by a thousand miracles. You know, you know, the way my family survived. survived the war.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And one of the dramatic ironies in the movie is that our grandmother survived, as I say in the movie, by a thousand miracles. You know, you know, the way my family survived. survived the war.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And one of the dramatic ironies in the movie is that our grandmother survived, as I say in the movie, by a thousand miracles. You know, you know, the way my family survived. survived the war.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

They were, you know, hidden in basements with their teachers, you know, crazy stories as, as you know, from, you know, anybody who survived the Holocaust, there's usually a story that's, you know, incredibly shocking and more shocking than the last one you heard.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

They were, you know, hidden in basements with their teachers, you know, crazy stories as, as you know, from, you know, anybody who survived the Holocaust, there's usually a story that's, you know, incredibly shocking and more shocking than the last one you heard.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

They were, you know, hidden in basements with their teachers, you know, crazy stories as, as you know, from, you know, anybody who survived the Holocaust, there's usually a story that's, you know, incredibly shocking and more shocking than the last one you heard.