A Real Pain | Behind-The-Scenes: Jesse Eisenberg - video Dailymotion

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Mismatched cousins David and Benji embark on a Polish journey to honour their grandmother, but old family tensions emerge along the way.

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00:00I was sitting at my computer for a number of months really trying to hammer out this

00:11story of these two cousins who had kind of grown apart, and I was always hitting a wall.

00:16And then I came upon this online ad banner, and the ad banner said, Holocaust Tours, in

00:22parentheses, with lunch.

00:31My name is James.

00:32I will be your British tour guide.

00:34The script was tight.

00:35It was perfect.

00:36I instantly went, I know who this guy is.

00:38I know I can play this.

00:39I don't want to think about it.

00:40I can do it.

00:41To answer the question, maybe you are thinking of asking, I'm a survivor of the genocide.

00:46Oh, snap.

00:47Sorry.

00:48No, I just meant, no, that's like, I meant that in a good way.

00:50It's like, I'm a fan, basically.

00:53It was so elegantly written.

00:55It had a lightness to it, and there was comedy within it.

01:00You've mailed yourself wheat.

01:01Oh, man.

01:02I mailed us wheat.

01:03Jesse has a really forthright, clear-cut, fast-moving mind.

01:09He writes so eloquently, and it's so fully realized on the page.

01:12I had this immediate trust based on Jesse's humanity that's very clear from the script.

01:20We passed Lublin already, and you didn't wake me up.

01:22Oh, you were having such a good nap, dude.

01:24Jesus Christ, you're on a twerk group with people.

01:26Sorry, yeah, I know I just didn't have the heart to wake you up.

01:28The best you can get is somebody that wants to collaborate.

01:30They're always asking the producers what they thought of things.

01:32The cinematographer, he was always asking about the shot and what we could do, and then the

01:36actors, too.

01:37He wanted to know what they thought.

01:38You look great, Benji.

01:39This movie is one of these rare experiences where we were able to just do everything I

01:42wrote, and, you know, in a way, it felt like this is kind of, I don't know, some kind of

01:49beautiful fate.

01:50Thank you so much, man.

01:51That was a lot of fun.

01:52Thanks.

01:53No problem.

01:54No, it was so much fun.

A Real Pain | Behind-The-Scenes: Jesse Eisenberg

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