Interview With "A Real Pain" Director/Writer/Actor Jesse Eisenberg
The Next Best Picture Podcast
The Next Best Picture Podcast
4.2 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:14.9 | You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is my interview with the writer, director, and star of the film A Real Pain. Jesse Eisenberg. Hey, Benji, I just got to the airport. I really hope you left already. Oh, God, you made it. What's up, Cus? I got some good shit from Wemeyland. Wait, you're not like taking weed into Poland, are you? Oh, yeah. Benji? They don't give shit about that stuff. I think they very much do give a shit about that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We get high in back seats. Daveers and I are cousins. We used to be joined at the hip. Our grandma was from here, so Dave arranged for us to join this geriatric Polish tour with you fine people. That's the way we get by. I really needed this man. |
| 0:55.0 | I know that it's tough for you to leave your boy. We don't really have anything going on. I know it's been the tough few months for you, so I also want to say that I know you're not the most comfortable person with people. I'm not. No. Doesn't look real? Well, they're twice the size of you in metal, so. want to come up here? I'm good. Can you take my picture? That's what I'm talking about. |
| 1:12.3 | Marsha. Thank you, metal. So. You sure you don't want to come up here? I'm good. Can you take my picture? |
| 1:11.6 | That's what I'm talking about. |
| 1:12.6 | Marsha. |
| 1:13.6 | Thank you, David. |
| 1:14.6 | But it's amazing that you're here, putting yourself out there so boldly for me. |
| 1:17.6 | Thank you, man. |
| 1:18.6 | Let's go smoke a joint. |
| 1:19.6 | Word of warning. |
| 1:21.6 | This will be a tour about Penn. |
| 1:23.6 | Our grandmother and Benji were super close. I mean, she was the coolest. I've just been in a real funk, I guess, since she died. |
| 1:30.3 | Just haven't. |
| 1:32.3 | I'm... |
| 1:33.3 | You ain't long. |
| 1:38.3 | You're looking back at the horrors of your family history. |
| 1:41.3 | We completely cut ourselves off from anyone else's true pain. Why are you doing this? |
| 1:45.0 | Oh man, you used to like feel everything. Obviously, there are triggers along the way. We're not at the right station. And you didn't wake me up. Oh, you're having such a good nap, dude. You were like... You were like... Sorry. Yeah, I know, just didn't have the heart to wake you up. Has he always been like this? |
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