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)

(Source: himpoepoe)

• 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: 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: 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.

Jesse Eisenberg, Camille Mana and Justin Bartha on The Artsy Farty Show (nov. 22)

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• INTERVIEWER: And what would you tell your former self?
• JESSE EISENBERG: You know, don't worry so much. At all times and still today I'm so fearful that everything is going to fall apart and I'm never going to work again, never going to be involved with anything I like again. And if I could go back, I'd say 'don't worry so much. It's going to ebb and flow but there will be moments of flow.'
• INTERVIEWER: I think that's good advice because as artists, we're always so critical of ourselves.
• JESSE EISENBERG: Yeah, but the people that don't worry I'd say, 'worry more!' because it's very hard and competitive and if you're so relaxed about it and think that the world is going to come to you, it's not going to. So I would tell half the people to worry a little bit more and the other people--like me--don't take so much medicine.
• INTERVIEWER: What would you tell yourself, Justin?
• JUSTIN BARTHA: In the last year, you said? Because for Jesse that was like ten years ago. What would I tell myself a year ago?
• JESSE EISENBERG: Dog years.
• JUSTIN BARTHA: I mean, I would--what would I tell myself a year ago... probably don't invest all your money on Blockbuster Videos. I would say that would be the number one thing.
• INTERVIEWER: How about your artistic self?
• JUSTIN BARTHA: Don't do all those straight-to-Blockbuster Video movies. Because now there's no shelf to put them on.

"[On Justin and Jesse] I’m sitting in between fear and worry! I think it really is about trusting that if you aren’t one of those people who’s not doing enough to compete with the rest of the artists—there are some really high highs and some really low lows when you pick a career as unstable as we have. And you know, that’s what you signed up for but keep doing it. I mean, a year ago—I’ve been playing very young for a very long time and this is the first time—when I got the offer to do this role, I literally thought something was wrong with Jesse and I didn’t know him at all; I’ve never worked with anyone involved in this project but it was just a straight offer to play this role, which I could not understand because I’ve never had anything on my tape that indicated that I would be the appropriate choice for this character! But yeah, I’ve never played an immigrant, I’ve never played an adult, I’ve never had a ring on my finger and I’m excited that that’s happening in this play ‘cause I think this is sort of a new chapter for me after this. I have a feeling that I’m finally going to get to play some post-collegiate adult and people with twos in front of their ages instead of ones. But um, I guess for me it was doubting that that next chapter would start any time soon, ‘cause I’m Asian, and those roles really just don’t come."