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During The Hollywood Reporter Writers Roundtable, Jesse Eisenberg recalls the moment Bob Odenkirk yelled at him after reading one of his pieces of written work.

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00:00When I was like 16, 17, 18, 19, I started writing screenplays that what I would call

00:04like of the Adam Sandler 90s era style because I figured out like the formula and I was like

00:10a smart kid and I loved jokes so I could figure out kind of what the formula is and just kind

00:15of reproduce them.

00:17And then I, when I was like, and I had like some of these scripts even like optioned when

00:21I was a kid because I would send them to agents and then I, but nothing would ever get made

00:26and I could tell this was like a fruitless effort that people were kind of doing.

00:29And then I was working at, when I was 20, I got a part in a movie that Bob Odenkirk

00:33was directing, which was like a dark art film, it was called The Fuck Up based on this great

00:38novel.

00:39And I gave him my scripts and I knew he was in the comedy world and worked at Saturday

00:42Night Live and I thought, oh, he'll send it to Adam Sandler and I'll go to set tomorrow.

00:47And he took about two weeks to read my scripts and then called me and yelled at me for like

00:52an hour.

00:53But in this incredible way, he just said like, I'll never forget what he said to me because

00:56it changed my life entirely.

00:57I said, buddy, you're a smart, sensitive young person, why are you writing this?

01:01This is something that I would get hired to write like in a weekend and there'd be three

01:05of us sitting in a room for a weekend at Happy Madison doing this.

01:09You're a thoughtful, sensitive guy and you're 20, why are you doing this?

01:13Why is this your art?

01:14And it killed me because it really was like for four or three, four years of my life,

01:18like this is what I thought I could actually do and get a foothold in something.

01:22And like right after that, I went to Poland for a movie and I went to visit my family's

01:28house as we do in this movie, A Real Pain.

01:32And the next thing I did is I came back and I wrote a play and the play was the one you

01:36saw that was…

01:37No kidding.

01:38That's the first piece?

01:39Yeah.

01:40Yeah.

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