23-02-2025
Spirit Awards: ‘A Real Pain' Winner Jesse Eisenberg On 'Spontaneous' Kieran Culkin; Whether He'll Reteam With ‘Zombieland' Star Emma Stone
Jesse Eisenberg, in heading to Oscar night where his A Real Pain is up for Best Original Screenplay, spoke today at the Spirits backstage about his on-set bromance with Kieran Culkin; the Searchlight Sundance acquisition actually about the complex relationship of two cousins traveling to Auschwitz.
Culkin is up for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars and won the category today at the Spirits as well as the Golden Globes prior. He's also up tomorrow afternoon at the SAG Awards. Eisenberg won earlier today for Best Screenplay at the Spirits.
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Said the A Real Pain star and filmmaker, 'Kieran is a very spontaneous person but he doesn't improvise dialogue. That's not the way we work. Kieran's main love is theater as an actor and you don't improv in theater. We both came from a similar school but he's so spontaneous. You never know what he's going to go or what he's going to do. Occasionally he'll throw in a word. It was a dream to work with him because he's so great. it was a little unnerving the first few days. You want someone who's alive like him.'
Culkin was a no show today at the Spirits, the ceremony's host joking about a kissing sketch she did with him that was cut from SNL back in 2021.
Eisenberg was asked backstage about working again with his Zombieland co-star, but in a scenario where he's directing her. Does he have a scrip in the hopper for Stone? She did produce his past two directorials, When You Finish Saving the World and A Real Pain.
Said the Social Network thespian, 'Every single person in the world who opens a Final Draft folder wants to write something for Emma Stone. She's the greatest in every genre. I tend not to think of writing from the perspective of what actor can do it, more so just characters that interest me. I at some point will probably have the presumption to write something for her and it will be a very awkward conversation where she tells me she's busy. '
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