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Fresh Air

Best Of: Jesse Eisenberg / Pamela Anderson

Fresh Air

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4.434.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Eisenberg talks about writing, directing and starring in the film A Real Pain. Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who go to Poland on a Jewish Heritage Tour. One of the stops is the Majdanek death camp. He spoke with Terry Gross about questions the film raises. Also, we hear from Pamela Anderson. In the new film, The Last Showgirl, she stars as a veteran Vegas dancer who must face the end of her legendary show. She talked with Tonya Mosley about her big career comeback.

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0:00.0

This is Eric Glass.

0:01.3

On This American Life, sometimes we just show up somewhere, turn on our tape recorders, and see what happens.

0:06.1

If you can't get seven cars in 12 days, you've got to look yourself in the mirror and say, holy, what are you kidding me?

0:13.2

Like this car dealership, trying to sell its monthly quota of cars, and it is not going well.

0:17.6

I just don't want one balloon to a car.

0:19.4

Balloon the whole freaking place, so it looks like a circus. Real life stories every week.

0:25.2

From W. H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, Jesse Eisenberg

0:32.5

talks about writing, directing, and starring in the film A Real Pain. Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin play cousins who go to Poland on a Jewish heritage tour.

0:42.6

One of the stops is the Midanic Death Camp.

0:45.4

We'll talk about the questions the film raises like.

0:48.3

What is real pain?

0:49.2

Is my character's manageable, medicated OCD, pain valid?

0:53.8

Or is the only pain that's valid and should be kind of

0:56.3

acknowledged is the pain of war and of kind of mass genocide and, you know, mass trauma?

1:02.6

Also, we hear from Pamela Anderson. In the new film The Last Showgirl, she stars as a veteran

1:08.1

Vegas dancer who must face the end of her legendary show.

1:12.4

Anderson became a pop culture phenomenon in the late 80s and part because of her role on the series Baywatch.

1:19.7

That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

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