Jesse Eisenberg

Wow, that's a great question. My family has become increasingly secular just because it was assimilated into American culture. You become probably a little more secular. That's probably not uncommon. But, yeah, I think my family in general does not think in a kind of tribal way. And so I think, like, the takeaway from the Holocaust would probably be something more along the lines of –

you know, goodness, look what people can do to each other rather than look what people do to Jews. That's certainly my take on the world and certainly my parents' take on the world. In some ways, I suppose it's made us more kind of like open in a humanistic way to like the pains of others, the pains of others who are, you know, not Jews.

you know, goodness, look what people can do to each other rather than look what people do to Jews. That's certainly my take on the world and certainly my parents' take on the world. In some ways, I suppose it's made us more kind of like open in a humanistic way to like the pains of others, the pains of others who are, you know, not Jews.

you know, goodness, look what people can do to each other rather than look what people do to Jews. That's certainly my take on the world and certainly my parents' take on the world. In some ways, I suppose it's made us more kind of like open in a humanistic way to like the pains of others, the pains of others who are, you know, not Jews.

You know, one of the characters in this movie, A Real Pain, is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. His character is based on my friend. They both have the same name, Eloge.

You know, one of the characters in this movie, A Real Pain, is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. His character is based on my friend. They both have the same name, Eloge.

You know, one of the characters in this movie, A Real Pain, is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. His character is based on my friend. They both have the same name, Eloge.

And Eloge, the real Eloge, is the same as the character in the movie and the stories that they tell are true, which is that my friend Eloge survived the Rwandan genocide, moved to Winnipeg, and the only people he felt kind of like can understand him were Holocaust survivors because they'd been through a genocide. And he converted to Judaism, and he felt such a deep connection to Jewish culture.

And Eloge, the real Eloge, is the same as the character in the movie and the stories that they tell are true, which is that my friend Eloge survived the Rwandan genocide, moved to Winnipeg, and the only people he felt kind of like can understand him were Holocaust survivors because they'd been through a genocide. And he converted to Judaism, and he felt such a deep connection to Jewish culture.

And Eloge, the real Eloge, is the same as the character in the movie and the stories that they tell are true, which is that my friend Eloge survived the Rwandan genocide, moved to Winnipeg, and the only people he felt kind of like can understand him were Holocaust survivors because they'd been through a genocide. And he converted to Judaism, and he felt such a deep connection to Jewish culture.

And I love that story so much, which is why I based a character on him in the movie, because that story speaks to the way that we can take kind of horrific experiences that have happened to us because of our religion or race or ethnicity or whatever you want to qualify Jews as and have it connect to other people's horrific experiences.

And I love that story so much, which is why I based a character on him in the movie, because that story speaks to the way that we can take kind of horrific experiences that have happened to us because of our religion or race or ethnicity or whatever you want to qualify Jews as and have it connect to other people's horrific experiences.

And I love that story so much, which is why I based a character on him in the movie, because that story speaks to the way that we can take kind of horrific experiences that have happened to us because of our religion or race or ethnicity or whatever you want to qualify Jews as and have it connect to other people's horrific experiences.

And we can take this kind of, let's say, historical trauma experience and have it be able to kind of transcend our own community's pain and allow it to connect us to other pain.

And we can take this kind of, let's say, historical trauma experience and have it be able to kind of transcend our own community's pain and allow it to connect us to other pain.

And we can take this kind of, let's say, historical trauma experience and have it be able to kind of transcend our own community's pain and allow it to connect us to other pain.

So I dropped out of Hebrew school when I was like 12, right before I was having just my own problems. And also I hated in a real way these parties that people had. I grew up in the suburbs of Jersey. Oh, the bar mitzvah parties? And they turned my stomach in a way that I couldn't probably even articulate.

So I dropped out of Hebrew school when I was like 12, right before I was having just my own problems. And also I hated in a real way these parties that people had. I grew up in the suburbs of Jersey. Oh, the bar mitzvah parties? And they turned my stomach in a way that I couldn't probably even articulate.

So I dropped out of Hebrew school when I was like 12, right before I was having just my own problems. And also I hated in a real way these parties that people had. I grew up in the suburbs of Jersey. Oh, the bar mitzvah parties? And they turned my stomach in a way that I couldn't probably even articulate.

You know, just like the deification and celebration of a 13-year-old kid, you know, for doing what, I don't know. And then like the karaoke celebrating a kid. It just, it seemed so gross to me. And like the kids in school would talk about the checks they got from the, it just, it nauseated me. I don't know why. I'm sure because I was probably like a depressed little 12-year-old.