February 2012
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INTERVIEWER: What is the worst thing you have ever done as a friend?
JESSE EISENBERG: I stabbed a friend once...but in my defense, he was a few minutes late. [Jesse gives a small smile.]
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“A few years ago I enrolled in the YMCA. My girlfriend and her family were...”
– Jesse Eisenberg for Men’s Health (via emilyisobsessed)
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“As far as I’m concerned, Eisenberg is the most engaging, highly-watchable actor...”
– The 20 Movies That Rocked Sundance and Slamdance By Davy Rothbart (via emlary)
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AVC: Jesse, your press notes start by saying your character is a “big wuss.” Was that how the character was described to you?
JE: No, my agent said it was leading man, they said it was—
WH: Courageous.
JE: Yeah, courageous in the vein of a modern day Humphrey Bogart, like Casablanca in high school. That’s how she described it to me. [Laughs.] I think she was talking about...
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“People have written mean things about me on the internet and—as a...”
– Jesse Eisenberg on why he’s not on social networking sites
January 2012
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“For Zombieland I did interviews with Emma Stone and she’s hysterical. We did...”
– Jesse Eisenberg
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“Every script is about a guy trying to have sex with lots of women. I read them...”
– Jesse Eisenberg on finding work in Hollywood
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“To the world, he is perhaps “the kid who played that Facebook guy” or “the dude...”
– Camille Mana; “On Mr. Jesse Eisenberg,” With NYC As My Mistress, There Is Nothing I Shall Want
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December 2011
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Interviewer: Do you dislike promoting your movies?
Jesse Eisenberg: It’s not daunting, it’s just monotonous. We do the same interviews over and over. For Zombieland I did interviews with Emma Stone and she’s hysterical. We did about 50 interviews and it’s always the same questions, so what we did before each interview is give each other a phrase or a word we would have to work into the interview to make it a little more interesting. The only time we really laughed was when she made me say stiffy.
Interview: How did you work "stiffy" into the interview?
Jesse Eisenberg: I didn’t know what to say, but Woody Harrelson’s character is always drinking alcohol so I said, He always has a lot of stiffy drinks, and then I immediately thought of ejaculate and could not stop laughing.
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Thought Catalog: Jesse Eisenberg did the audio book for Be More Chill. Did you ever get to meet him? Have you read any of his McSweeney’s pieces, or seen his new play, Asuncion? You guys, on the surface at least, have a ton in common.
Ned Vizzini: I’ve never met Jesse Eisenberg but I hope to. In addition to doing the audio book for Be More Chill, he read from It’s Kind of a Funny Story at a benefit for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a nonprofit that I’ve been proud to support for years. I like his “Manageable Tongue Twisters” on McSweeney’s.
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INTERVIEWER: Can you tell me about your writing process [for "Asuncion"]?
JESSE: I wrote the first scene of the play over a course of a day or two because it was based on something that had happened to me and I thought it would just be an interesting scene. What happened to me was I was attacked on the street -- and I did an interview and I defended the kids who attacked me because they grew up in kind of a poor neighborhood. Then somebody sent me a letter with the interview attached, saying, "You racist, ignorant idiot to defend people who attacked. You're even more ignorant than wanting to put them in jail because you assumed that people who grew up in poor neighborhoods should be attackers." And I thought, well, he's right and that is a good point. I actually did do something very condescending and wrong.
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“I can say that I initiated the lawsuit based on the principle that artists...”
– Jesse Eisenberg on his lawsuit with Lionsgate
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Jesse Eisenberg on the thrill of the stage (via... →
moviesorientated:
My friend Dan once explained to me why he likes Jewish people: “In most families, you sit around the dinner table in silence until you absolutely need something from the other end. That’s when you’re forced to speak. But when I eat dinner with a Jewish family, the tiniest comment sets off an entertaining debate. Someone will say ‘I like this pasta’ and it’s immediately...
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INTERVIEWER: You're coming into the homestretch with this run here. What are you gonna miss the most, and what's been the best part of the experience for each of you with doing the show?
JESSE: I had this moment on stage early on in the previews where we were all on stage together. There's only brief moments where the four of us are really there together, and I just had this moment of feeling that when this is over, I'm not gonna remember how nervous I felt every night and how disappointed I felt when it wasn't going well, but actually how much I'll miss that experience of being, you know, treading water with three other people. And um, I haven't been able to get back to that feeling, but um, I look forward to it during Christmas.
JUSTIN: I would say the Pop Tarts and the bagels. Yeah I'm not gonna miss the people, more the Pop Tarts.
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INTERVIEWER: What I love about the theater is, actors come together and you get a play, and you form this family and you try to do the very best. You go through the trenches together of putting on a show. So what has it been like working together, all of you, because you guys are friends, so what's that dynamic like?
JESSE: When I act in a movie, I would compare the experience of working with the other actors as kind of being on a cruise together, like you have a fun time and it's nice--
REMY: All the food. All the food you eat.
JESSE: All the food, yeah. And also that you're kind of separated from your life. But the experience of working on a play with actors is like being in a life raft together. I feel like we're all staying afloat just because of each other. And it's such an intense experience, and if you're not surrounded by people you like -- and I've been fortunate enough to not have to have that experience, especially with this one -- I can only imagine it must be awful.