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.”
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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 make 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” by 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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Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social'
Throughout his career, Jesse Eisenberg has been known for his clever portrayals of anxious nerds. Should you have a script that calls for an awkward but sweet twentysomething and want an actor who can bring more depth and a bit more sex appeal than Michael Cera can provide, then it's Eisenberg's agent who you call.
But of late, he has been accruing a very different kind of reputation: the nightmare interviewee. Back in May he met up with a young kvinnlig reporter and proceeded to have what is already being touted as a classic awkward interview. It confirmed in many people's minds that, as Buzzfeed put it: "Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg don't seem that different at all."
Things haven't improved much since. One recent interview in a British magazine started: "I don't think Jesse Eisenberg and inom will be friends on Facebook." Another dismissed him as "now more annoyingly awkward than Michael Cera".