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Jesse Eisenberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2558 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

I've played villains in movies and, you know, I played a bodybuilder who joins a cult last year in a movie. And to me, I just this stuff to me is so much more comforting than just trying to navigate normal stuff.

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Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

You know, as an actor, your job is to kind of like really understand your character, even if the character is like a villain in a movie. You know, your job is to defend your character, right?

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

You know, as an actor, your job is to kind of like really understand your character, even if the character is like a villain in a movie. You know, your job is to defend your character, right?

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

You know, as an actor, your job is to kind of like really understand your character, even if the character is like a villain in a movie. You know, your job is to defend your character, right?

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And so I spent a lot of time thinking about this guy and thinking about, you know, how he felt outcast in the world and created this thing in order to connect with other people because he felt uncomfortable connecting with other people through more traditional social norms. And... And at the time when I was acting in it, I thought, oh, this is wonderful and totally defensible.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And so I spent a lot of time thinking about this guy and thinking about, you know, how he felt outcast in the world and created this thing in order to connect with other people because he felt uncomfortable connecting with other people through more traditional social norms. And... And at the time when I was acting in it, I thought, oh, this is wonderful and totally defensible.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And so I spent a lot of time thinking about this guy and thinking about, you know, how he felt outcast in the world and created this thing in order to connect with other people because he felt uncomfortable connecting with other people through more traditional social norms. And... And at the time when I was acting in it, I thought, oh, this is wonderful and totally defensible.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

This is a guy who is ambitious because he has this great thing that he's going to unleash on the world. And when I see like, you know, the news now, of course, is that, you know, they ended fact checking, you know, whatever. I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's really an extension of that same thing.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

This is a guy who is ambitious because he has this great thing that he's going to unleash on the world. And when I see like, you know, the news now, of course, is that, you know, they ended fact checking, you know, whatever. I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's really an extension of that same thing.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

This is a guy who is ambitious because he has this great thing that he's going to unleash on the world. And when I see like, you know, the news now, of course, is that, you know, they ended fact checking, you know, whatever. I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's really an extension of that same thing.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

A person whose kind of ambition really, let's say, supersedes their caution in a way that can be pretty dangerous. And now that the platform is so powerful and owns all these other things, you know, I guess I feel a little bit sad. Why is this the path you're taking? Yeah.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

A person whose kind of ambition really, let's say, supersedes their caution in a way that can be pretty dangerous. And now that the platform is so powerful and owns all these other things, you know, I guess I feel a little bit sad. Why is this the path you're taking? Yeah.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

A person whose kind of ambition really, let's say, supersedes their caution in a way that can be pretty dangerous. And now that the platform is so powerful and owns all these other things, you know, I guess I feel a little bit sad. Why is this the path you're taking? Yeah.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And so I mostly just think of it that way of like, oh, this is that same person that I spent a long time, you know, humanizing and thinking about, you know, and trying to justify and defend his behavior.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And so I mostly just think of it that way of like, oh, this is that same person that I spent a long time, you know, humanizing and thinking about, you know, and trying to justify and defend his behavior.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

And so I mostly just think of it that way of like, oh, this is that same person that I spent a long time, you know, humanizing and thinking about, you know, and trying to justify and defend his behavior.

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Yes. I became obsessed with Chopin's music in 2008 when I visited Poland. My wife and I went to Chopin's house, which is outside Warsaw. It's a museum now. And I just became obsessed with the music because right after I did that trip, I wrote my first play, which took place in Poland, and I put Chopin's music as the interstitial music in the play. And so I went down a rabbit hole of

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Yes. I became obsessed with Chopin's music in 2008 when I visited Poland. My wife and I went to Chopin's house, which is outside Warsaw. It's a museum now. And I just became obsessed with the music because right after I did that trip, I wrote my first play, which took place in Poland, and I put Chopin's music as the interstitial music in the play. And so I went down a rabbit hole of

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

Yes. I became obsessed with Chopin's music in 2008 when I visited Poland. My wife and I went to Chopin's house, which is outside Warsaw. It's a museum now. And I just became obsessed with the music because right after I did that trip, I wrote my first play, which took place in Poland, and I put Chopin's music as the interstitial music in the play. And so I went down a rabbit hole of

Fresh Air
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid

much of his work. And so when I was writing this movie, A Real Pain, I was listening to his music and I started putting his music in the scenes, in the script.