00:00How are you? Nice to see you.
00:02We met in Toronto once.
00:04I remember meeting you. Where was that?
00:06Came into our studio lounge. I don't usually remind people of like when they met me because it's annoying.
00:11I recognized you but I couldn't place where, so it was Toronto.
00:14Okay.
00:15I just remember because you were like my favorite interviewer the whole time.
00:17What happened?
00:18We were so nice and we had like a good rapport and it ended and you said you were good.
00:23Oh, thanks.
00:24Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25I recognized you with a kind of good connotation, you know.
00:28Yeah.
00:29The synapses were firing.
00:31By the way, I saw you catch up with Andrew Garp.
00:33Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah.
00:35Yeah, I got to see him at the Governor Awards too which is like a similar cultural thing tonight.
00:41Jesse Eisenberg, happy almost one year anniversary to a real pain.
00:44Sundance debut.
00:45Tell me this past year what the highlight has been for you of putting this movie out into the world.
00:50Oh, very surreal.
00:51I've written a ton of things and they've never gotten attention like this and so I was like very surprised.
00:59And you know what's weird is like we only just wanted to get into Sundance and we got into Sundance.
01:08And we got into Sundance and suddenly you're panicking like I want to sell.
01:10So then you sell the movie to a company like Searchlight and then after that you're like wait, when is it coming?
01:15Suddenly like everything, once you get the thing you wanted, you just need another thing.
01:19And so these award things are seemingly designed to like have you feel that way at every turn.
01:23Wait, the Golden Globe Awards and then the next, you know.
01:25And so like it's a very surreal experience because I suddenly have developed expectations that are beyond what I ever dreamed of.
01:34And yet they all feel like I have to get that too.
01:36And so it's been unnerving actually in a strange way.
01:39How do you manage that?
01:41Oh, I try to remind myself like what my dad told me which is just like if you get one of these in your career in the arts you're incredibly lucky.
01:49And if it ended in Sundance that would have been great.
01:51If it ended now it would have been still great.
01:53So I try to remind myself how lucky I am.
01:55That's a smart dad.
01:56Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:57He's kind of removed from this stuff so he sees it as kind of, he can see it as a little more silly than I can.
02:03And you've had some really fun moments throughout this journey too.
02:06I mean I'm still thinking about watching it at Sundance and seeing you guys get up on stage.
02:11And Kieran had that funny quote of like Jesse had some notes for me and he's like bitch I got some notes for you too.
02:18Tell me what it was like to work with him and what the bond is now.
02:22Well you know Kieran's a very unpredictable person.
02:25Like I don't even know if he's going to make it tonight.
02:27Like that's how unpredictable he is.
02:28Let alone make it to Poland.
02:30He tried to drop out of the movie two weeks before we started shooting.
02:33He would come to set not knowing what scene we're doing.
02:35But he was always brilliant in the movie.
02:38Always brilliant in the scenes.
02:39Like beyond anything I could have conceived of.
02:41And I think he was just like living in the spirit of the character.
02:44As opposed to like kind of preparing in like more logical way like I would prepare.
02:48You know going over your script.
02:49Thinking about your role.
02:50He would just like show up and just be living in the thing.
02:52Wouldn't sleep the night before.
02:54And it was a really interesting thing to watch.
02:56If he was not good in the movie I think I'd be really worried.
02:59Like why isn't he sleeping?
03:00Why isn't he prepared?
03:01But because he was so brilliant I was just like kind of hands off.
03:04That must have also been unusual as a director.
03:07For not only to have a scene partner like that but to also have somebody you're directing.
03:11Yeah it was weird to give him notes after we would film.
03:16Not just because I was acting in the scene with him.
03:18But also because he just didn't want notes.
03:20Again he's such an unusual person.
03:22So he was kind of like living in the spirit of the character.
03:24So I would tell him like hey you know that was really great what you just did.
03:28But I think try to bring this thing in earlier.
03:30And he would tell me I don't know what I did.
03:32If you want to do another take let's do another take.
03:34But I have no idea what I did.
03:35I'm not going to bring something in early.
03:36He kind of always made me feel like a tool.
03:38Because he just wanted to kind of live in the moment.
03:41I'm an idiot.
03:42I don't know that stuff.
03:43That's what's so great about you.
03:44You're not an idiot.
03:46Last fun question.
03:47Are you a New Year's resolution or intention kind of person?
03:50I don't make New Year's resolutions because I know I'm not going to break them.
03:54I know I'm going to break them.
03:55I come from a family of vegetarians.
03:57So I really do every year start the year trying not to eat that much meat.
04:01Because my family never eats meat.
04:03So that's my usual perpetual resolution.
04:06And then wait I let that slip by that you're working on something else now.
04:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:12I'm directing kind of a musical starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti.
04:19And so we're in production pretty soon.
04:21Yeah.
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