Jesse Eisenberg plays characters who spend a lot of time grappling with anxiety. That includes his role as David in his latest movie, A Real Pain, which he also wrote and directed.

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Jesse Eisenberg directed movies Eisenberg has begun to take on more directing projects. As we mentioned above, A Real Pain is the second movie he has directed, preceded by When You Finishing Saving ...

Jesse Eisenberg — who wrote, directed, and stars opposite Culkin — is the ostensible protagonist David, ­Benji’s uptight, socially awkward cousin who envies and pities him in equal measure ...

Jesse Eisenberg said that as an actor his job is to “understand your character, even if the character is a villain.” But things have changed. Senior Editor Senior Editor matt.wilstein@ ...

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A few years ago, actor Jesse Eisenberg was writing a movie about two men on a road trip in Mongolia when an ad popped up on his screen, offering "Auschwitz tours, with lunch." "I clicked on the ad and ...

Chopin’s much-loved solo piano music takes centre stage in ‘A Real Pain’, a new film by Jesse Eisenberg out now in cinemas. The score for Jesse Eisenberg’s latest film is made up almost entirely of ...

Played by Jesse Eisenberg (also the writer and director), David is a tense New Yorker with a wife, a child and a job peddling advertising banners; or, as his cousin puts it, “selling shit online”.

Jesse Eisenberg’s second outing in the writer-director chair is a meditation on grief and historical pain that manages to evade the Hollywood question-answer cliche. A Real Pain follows two Jewish ...

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