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Jesse Eisenberg on How the Story of 'A Real Pain' Came to Be During the THR Writers Roundtable | THR Video
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Jesse Eisenberg reveals how the story of 'A Real Pain' came to be while chatting during The Hollywood Reporter Writers Roundtable.
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So I was writing this set in Mongolia and my family's from Poland and all the things
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that the characters are talking about in the movie is just, you know, very autobiographical.
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But I was setting this thing in Mongolia and it just was not going well and then this ad
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popped up online for Auschwitz tours and then in parentheses, with lunch.
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And these like, you know, I didn't think those four words would ever change my life.
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But I took the guys out of Mongolia and I reimagined the thing as them going on this,
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you know, strange thing that actually exists, which is like a yuppie tour of,
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you know, historical trauma. I thought, oh, that's so interesting. So now I could have
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these two guys whose interpersonal strife can be, you know, against the backdrop of
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real historical trauma. And suddenly these things could kind of be in conversation with
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each other in a way that made me feel like the story is rich enough to be a movie.
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