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The Best of Jesse Eisenberg’s interview - TSN era

Troian Bellisario on The Social Network.

(Source: breathinginpairs)

The first thing I identify with myself is not my religion. Like, the first movie I did, is called Roger Dodger, the director kept telling me, “Please act more like Woody Harrelson, not Woody Allen.” I think there was a hidden comment there but I don’t know what it was. I told them I wanted to play the part in Zombieland with peyos ‘cause I thought I wasn’t doing anything interesting with the character and everybody else in the movie was so interesting.

(Source: markofthespiderman, via didyoublush)

Have you guys picked dates for the Oscars yet? It’s fast-approaching. 

JESSE:  I’m doing a very thorough interview process: we get several candidates—it’s going to be televised on Fox—and, uh, the winner gets to go on to round two.
ANDREW:  I am auditioning for round one and then we’ll see, you know…[crosses fingers].

(Source: notniallscrocodile)

• 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.

• 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.

"I can say that I initiated the lawsuit based on the principle that artists should not be exploited — in this case — by the company Lionsgate. If there is a financial reward, it will be directed back to nonprofit organizations that I’m affiliated with that provide opportunities for underserved sectors of the artist community that are less advantaged than I’ve gotten to be."

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