"To the world, he is perhaps “the kid who played that Facebook guy” or “the dude from that zombie movie who got nominated for an Oscar.” To me, he was an admirably gifted young actor whom I had discovered in 2005 upon my first viewing of “The Squid and the Whale” and now has grown to be one of the most kind-hearted and impactful people I am blessed to have had enter my life. Wittingly or unwittingly, Mr. Eisenberg (it feels strange to dub him by first and last and too pretentious to label him “Jesse” in print, so I will resort to this moniker for the interim) has changed my life. Inwardly and outwardly, I am a different person from having lived 24 days of rehearsal and 68 performances as Asuncion. From generously singling me out (and all the more generous for being seemingly sincere) during his Jimmy Fallon interview, to the moral support and care he provided me as a human being (homeboy actually biked all the way to 106th Street to make sure I’d gotten into my apartment comfortably upon arrival. Who does that?!), I can attest to the fact that he is as good as they come. Mr. Eisenberg, you are a fine young actor, but more importantly, you are a fine young man."

Q: Camille — [this is your] New York debut. Tell me what the whole experience has been like and how you were cast in the show. (x)

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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.

• 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.

• INTERVIEWER: And for you, Remy, what attracted you to the play and how did it happen for you?
• REMY: Same thing, Jesse reached out to me. He saw me do a play at the Atlantic -- "Anon." -- and I guess he recognized some familial connection buried deep inside us...
• JUSTIN: The nose.
• JESSE: Right. Yeah, 'cause we play brothers in the play.
• REMY: He thought, "Oh yeah, he could be my brother," and so he reached out to me and I responded to the play and I felt like it was something I wanted to support, and obviously he's a um, you know, a, a... a precocious artist...
• JUSTIN: Hmm.
• REMY: So I wanted to support him and do it. And the part is a blast.

• INTERVIEWER: Is it easy, Jesse, when you're writing a role with someone's voice in mind? Is it easy to write a play that way?
• JESSE: Yeah, it's easier -- I actually saw Remy in a play while I was writing it, Justin and I had worked together on a movie, and those voices stayed in my head. Camille I just got so lucky, because I had kind of written it with another voice in my head of somebody that I knew who is not an actress, and Camille does it so differently but so much better than I ever could have hoped for or imagined.
• INTERVIEWER: Camille -- New York debut. Tell me what the whole experience has been like and how you were cast in the show.
• CAMILLE: We'll talk about that after. [Laughs] But uh, no, no actually it's been fantastic. Like you were saying, [Justin and Jesse] are both old friends, so it was sort of daunting for me to come out here and play the title character in my first play in New York with these great actors, and you know, it came to me a year and a half ago? Jesse had asked me to do it and I remember reading the email from one of my reps, and it was just like, oh, Jesse Eisenberg would like you to play the female lead in his passion project, do you want to do it? I was like, really? Yeah, of course! So I mean, luckily we get along really well and everybody else as well, and it's been pretty phenomenal. And they welcomed me with open arms.

• INTERVIEWER: Justin, I know that you guys are good friends, so tell me how the play came into -- I know there's a story with this cast that we'll get into...
• JESSE: We all slept with Herman Cain.
• JUSTIN: You slept with Herman Cain too?
• JESSE: [nods]
• INTERVIEWER: ...How the play came to you in the role of Vinny.
• JUSTIN: Well, Jesse -- Eisenberg -- he sent me the play. You know, over the years we've developed a friendship, just purely out of no one else would be friends with us, I think. So we would send material to each other, and he sent me this play that he'd written -- he sent me a couple plays that he'd written, Asuncion being one of them. Was it called Asuncion?
• JESSE: Mmhmm. Yeah.
• JUSTIN: And it was obviously very good, and we would do a couple readings over the years, and I think he wrote the character of Vinny with me in mind, kind of -- part of an amalgam, I think, of other people... So it was just a chance, we'd worked together once before and it was a chance to work together again.

You know, the next thing I’m doing is a play in a 160-seat theater which I’m frankly a little more comfortable with. My goal is not to constantly be in touch with thousands of people, millions of people who see what I do. I’m more interested in doing something that I’m excited by and oftentimes that means a lot of people won’t see it and I’m fine with that.

(via fuckyeaheisenbergs)

"In terms of assumptions about me, the more known I get, the more people kind of think they kind of know me personally, even though they’ve just seen me on an interview or something. And I can understand why they feel that way. But it’s often times a little jarring for me. No one ever makes the dramatic assumptions like I make about her [Mana’s] character, so it’s difficult for me to relate to that. For the most part I’ve received nice letters from individuals. You know, nothing crazy. But I can understand it must be very painful to have something like what happens to her in the play, to have somebody you think you know well and might love you, and they actually think something terrible about you."