00:00How are you? Nice to see you.
00:02We met in Toronto.
00:03I remember meeting you. Where was that?
00:05Came into our studio lounge. I don't usually remind people of like when they met me because it's annoying when people...
00:11I recognized you but I couldn't play swear, so it was Toronto.
00:14I just remember because you were like my favorite interview 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.
00:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24I recognized you with a kind of good connotation, you know.
00:28Yeah.
00:29The synapses were firing. By 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 Sundance debut.
00:45Tell me this past year what the highlight has been for you putting this movie out into the world.
00:50Oh, very surreal. I've written a ton of things and they've never gotten attention like this.
00:54And so I was like very surprised.
00:59And, you know, what's weird is like you, when we just like we only just wanted to get into Sundance.
01:07We got into Sundance and 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 out?
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. If 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. He's not, you know, he's kind of removed from this stuff.
01:59So he sees it as kind of he can see it as some 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 and Kieran had that funny quote of like the Jesse had some notes for me.
02:16And he's like, bitch, I got some notes for you, too.
02:18Tell me what it was like to work with him and what what the 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, let 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, always 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.
02:47Like I would prepare, you know, going over your script, thinking about your role.
02:49He would just like show up and just be living in the thing.
02:52Wouldn't wouldn'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? Why isn't he prepared?
03:01But because he was so brilliant, I was just like, you know, 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.
03:20He want, again, 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. I 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.
03:54You know, I know I'm going to break them.
03:55You know, I come from a family of like vegetarians.
03:58So like I really do every year, start the year trying not to eat that much meat, you know,
04:02because my family never eats meat.
04:04So, yeah, that's my usual perpetual resolution.
04:07And then wait, I let you let that slip by that you're working on something else now.
04:11Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm directing like, it's like kind of a musical starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti.
04:19And so we're in production pretty soon.
04:21Yeah. Yeah.
04:22Congratulations.
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