Jesse Eisenberg: Movies are alive, follow your instincts (A Real Pain, The Social Network, Zombieland) #600
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the multi-talented actor, writer and filmmaker JESSE EISEINBERG!
Jesse's latest film 'A Real Pain' drops in the UK on January 8th, so this is a timely catch up and check in on what's been happening and what's on the horizon, as well as all the awesome mechanics involved (definitely notepad-worthy if you're of a similar discipline and mindset!).
He and Pip cover so much ground in this one, including being a self proclaimed hermit but attempted traveller, the benefits of regular writing, finding ideas everywhere especially when the algorithm unwittingly delivers them, working with day to day problems against larger traumatic backdrops, fatherhood and working with children, roles of the past, the importance and significance of all the crew members involved with each film, and working with Kieran Culkin on his latest. Don't just sit there refreshing the page, listen in!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast, episode 600. And this week I've got |
| 0:08.1 | such a special guest in Mr. Jesse Eisenberg. Man, I was excited to have this conversation. |
| 0:14.9 | Happy New Year and everything, by the way, of course. If this is your first time tuning in, |
| 0:19.9 | delve into the back catalogue. |
| 0:21.4 | We've had so many amazing people on, from Michael Fasbender to Mary J. Blyge, from Florence |
| 0:27.2 | Pew to James McAvoy, Spike Lee, to James Mangold, who's directing the new Bob Dylan film |
| 0:37.1 | that's getting a lot of hype. |
| 0:38.3 | But there's no one I've been more excited to sit down with than Jesse Eisenberg. |
| 0:43.2 | And I've purposely kind of crafted this to make sure it would be the 600th episode |
| 0:47.7 | because it felt appropriate. |
| 0:49.6 | I was a big fan of Jesse already for loads of reasons that we go into into the podcast. |
| 0:54.1 | There's one that |
| 0:54.7 | really proves my fandom when I get a certain picture out to show Jesse and the reaction warmed my |
| 1:00.7 | heart. But I got to go to a preview of Jesse's new film that he's in and has written and |
| 1:07.0 | directed called A Real Pain. And it blew me away. It's going to be in my films of the |
| 1:12.4 | year for 2025, I'm certain of it. Speaking of which, speaking of films of the year, we normally |
| 1:18.5 | open the year with the films of the year episode. It's recorded, it's in the bag, but it's going to be |
| 1:23.3 | out in a couple of weeks because I wanted to get this episode out now because a real pain is about to be in the cinema and I highly recommend you all go and see it. It's fantastic. |
| 1:33.3 | But you'll hear that from the conversation. And then the next week I've got Rob Alton on |
| 1:38.5 | and I wanted to get that episode out ahead of his UK tour and his Soho Theatre run. A lot of you all know I'm a huge Rob Alton |
| 1:48.0 | fan and I catch his show every year at the Fringe. I missed it last year because I was working. |
| 1:52.6 | So I'm excited to catch that at the Soho Theatre. But yeah, there will be films of the year. |
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