Jesse Eisenberg on How the Story of 'A Real Pain' Came to Be During the THR Writers Roundtable | THR Video - video Dailymotion

Jesse Eisenberg reveals how the story of 'A Real Pain' came to be while chatting during The Hollywood Reporter Writers Roundtable.

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00:00So I was writing this set in Mongolia and my family's from Poland and all the things

00:05that the characters are talking about in the movie is just, you know, very autobiographical.

00:10But I was setting this thing in Mongolia and it just was not going well and then this ad

00:16popped up online for Auschwitz tours and then in parentheses, with lunch.

00:22And these like, you know, I didn't think those four words would ever change my life.

00:26But I took the guys out of Mongolia and I reimagined the thing as them going on this,

00:33you know, strange thing that actually exists, which is like a yuppie tour of,

00:38you know, historical trauma. I thought, oh, that's so interesting. So now I could have

00:41these two guys whose interpersonal strife can be, you know, against the backdrop of

00:46real historical trauma. And suddenly these things could kind of be in conversation with

00:49each other in a way that made me feel like the story is rich enough to be a movie.

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