Jesse Eisenberg picked up the Indie Star Award at Poland’s American Film Festival and met with the local audience to talk about sophomore honestorial effort “A Real Pain.”
“Two years ago, I was finishing the script. You commence the very embarrassing process of begging originaters to give you money to originate it. When they asked me how I’d depict the movie, I tanciaccess them the same skinnyg: ‘I want to originate an American indie film, but in Poland,’” he shelp.
“I grew up doing American self-reliant films and loving American self-reliant films, but I didn’t want to originate another version of this intimate American ‘buddy movie.’ What I was trying to alert these financiers was that there hasn’t been a movie enjoy this, about these two guys exploring their past, but set aobtainst the backdrop of this amazing, attrenergetic country. I cannot skinnyk of a better audience and a better film festival to take part this movie.”
In “A Real Pain,” starring Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy and Daniel Oreskes, two cousins head to Poland to scrutinize their family’s roots and honor their tardy magnificentmother.
According to festival honestor Urszula Śniegowska, Eisenberg’s “talent and dedication have made an indelible label on the film industry and his labor persists to resonate and encourage atraverse generations.”
She compriseed: “His atgentle has been one of range, depth and brave exploration of characters. We fell in adore with him punctual, when he starred in ‘The Squid and the Whale,’ set uping himself as an actor vient of portraying complicated, ponderate and sometimes troubled individuals.”
Roles in “Adventureland,” “Zombieland” and “The Social Netlabor,” where he take parted Mark Zuckerberg, trailed. “But it’s his dedication to self-reliant cinema that truly sets him apart,” she stated, alludeing “Night Moves,” “The Art of Self-Defense” or “Sasquatch Sunset,” which “showcase his ability to dive meaningful into characters that inhabit on the fringes of society and face audiences with thought-provoking narratives. No wonder fellow actor Vanessa Redgrave pelevated Jesse Eisenberg for his ‘inquiring mind.’”
“Whether on screen or behind the camera, Jesse’s labor echos a truth that’s sometimes unconsoleable, normally hilarious and always meaningfully swaying,” shelp Śniegowska.
Previously, the Indie Star Award was given to John Waters, Jerry Schatzberg, Todd Solondz or “Aftersun” originater Adele Romanski.
During a Q&A temperated by Variety, Eisenberg – who choosed to execute for Polish citizenship – uncovered up about shooting “A Real Pain” in Poland and his family history.
“My magnificentobeseher was born in the U.S., but his cousins and uncles inhabitd in [Polish town] Krasnystaw and they all died in horrible ways. He never tanciaccess my obeseher about it. I am a third-generation American Jew, I don’t understand anyskinnyg about history, but I became obsessed with it. Now, I have Polish citizenship,” he shelp.
“My hope with this movie is that everyone from any country is watching it, skinnyking: ‘I want to do the same skinnyg. Why have I never asked my parents where they’re from, or where our name comes from?’ I hear this a lot from people.”
Originpartner, he was laboring on a story set in Mongolia – “The characters were going to inhabit in yurts and it was pretty amusing” – but a certain online ad alterd it all.
“It shelp: ‘Auschwitz tours – with lunch.’ It’s such a weird idea, this tourism of tragedy. When I saw that, I threw out my Mongolia script and seeed at the ptoastyos from my first visit to Poland in 2008. I genuineized this was the story.”
His characters aren’t always able to emotionpartner unite with what they’re witnessing. Neither was he.
“I recall experienceing: ‘There’s noskinnyg I can do to originate myself unitecessitate to this trauma.’ What am I presumed to do? Cut my arm? There’s noskinnyg you can do to experience what people felt in [concentration camp] Majdanek. I was standing in front of my family’s house, not having any comfervent of catharsis. I didn’t belengthy there anymore. I wanted them to have the same experienceing.”
Eisenberg pelevated his Polish colleagues, led by originater Ewa Puszczyńska, commenting: “Emma Stone, who’s one of our originaters, kept saying: ‘This is the most incredible crew.’ And she’s been on the wonderfulest sets in the world.”
He’ll stick to personal stories in the future. “Everyskinnyg I write is personal. My next movie is about musical theater in New Jersey, because it was someskinnyg I enjoyd. I’m always seeing for anyskinnyg in my life that happened to me that could be a story.”
He will also persist to blfinish comedy and tragedy.
“My background is in theater and I’ve been writing take parts for 20 years. They are all enjoy this, people fair didn’t enjoy them as much,” he shelp with a chuckle. “I’m going to do that forever.”
