Jesse Eisenberg Steps Into His Past

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg’s latest project, A Real Pain, is perhaps his most personal to date.

He joins us today to unpack the journey that shaped the film (9:18), memories from his travels to Poland (15:40), and what he observed about his family growing up in East Brunswick (22:23). Then, Eisenberg reflects on his first jokes written on post-it notes (29:20), his breakthrough acting roles in Roger Dodger (31:35) and The Squid and the Whale (34:37), and formative visits to his aunt Doris in New York City (35:32).

On the back-half, we talk about his transformation in The Social Network (41:15), the erotic dream that inspired his play The Spoils (42:48), the real anxiety he explored while writing A Real Pain (46:39), lessons on directing from Richard Ayoade and Greg Mottola (51:14), and why he cares so deeply about his art (1:00:10).

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0:00.0	Hello podcast fans. It is I, Bruce Valanche. For over 25 years, I worked on the Academy Awards, so you didn't have to.
0:10.3	In that time, I've seen and heard things that should not be seen or heard or certainly felt.
0:17.7	And now, for the first time, I'm sharing all my behind-the-scenes stories and first-hand knowledge
0:23.0	about the Oscars, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the slap, all the things you didn't see.
0:30.2	So join me as I use humor and insight to break down the Oscar Awards of the past to explain how
0:36.3	and why your favorite movie didn't win, why some actors
0:40.9	and some directors had to fire their agents, and how the whole process works or sometimes doesn't
0:47.9	work. This is the Oscars. What were they thinking? Available wherever you get podcasts. This is Talk Easy. I'm Stan Forgo, so welcome to the show.
1:43.3	Today, I'm joined by actor, writer, and director, Jesse Eisenberg.
1:50.0	A little over a decade ago, Eisenberg was nominated for a best acting Oscar for his turn as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network.
1:54.2	Since then, he's lived the life of a varied artist, collaborating with autours like Kelly
2:00.1	Reinhart and Richard Iowade. He's done
2:02.7	television with Fleischman is in trouble,
2:04.9	the hit FX Limited series
2:06.6	based on Taffy Broderer
2:08.5	Akner's best-selling novel.
2:10.6	He's written four plays, authored a
2:12.6	short story collection, and
2:14.5	regularly contributes to the New Yorker.
2:16.8	But he's also gone mainstream, playing
2:19.1	Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman and the Justice League. Not to mention his Now You See
2:25.5	me series, which just wrapped film number three. I guess it's no surprise then that Eisenberg's
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