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How Bob Odenkirk Inspired Jesse Eisenberg’s Direction and Writing Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Jesse Eisenberg has been
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  Speaker 1: steadily working as an actor since he was a teenager,
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  Speaker 1: but he recently took his first turn behind the camera,
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  Speaker 1: writing and directing the heartfelt comedy A Real Pain, which
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  Speaker 1: he also stars in alongside Kieran Culkin and Whiles, the
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  Speaker 1: first produce screenplay by Jess. He's actually been writing for years,
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  Speaker 1: though his early scripts were pretty different. He compared them
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  Speaker 1: to poor excuses for an Adam Sandler comedy, and the
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  Speaker 1: guy who convinced him to try a different direction was
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  Speaker 1: better call sauls Bob Odenkirk. He tells the Hollywood Reporter
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  Speaker 1: he got cast in a movie Bob was directing and
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  Speaker 1: sent him a script. Since Bob had worked on SNL,
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  Speaker 1: his hope was that he'd send them to Adam. Jesse
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  Speaker 1: says Bob read them, then yelled at me for an hour,
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  Speaker 1: but in an incredible way. I'll never forget what he did.
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  Speaker 1: It changed my life. He said, why are you writing this?
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  Speaker 1: This is something I get hired to write in a
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  Speaker 1: weekend with three of us sitting in a room. You're
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  Speaker 1: a thoughtful, sensitive guy. Why is this your art? It
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  Speaker 1: killed me. Those scripts represented years of my life. But
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  Speaker 1: right after that, I went to Poland and visited my
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  Speaker 1: family's house as we do in a real pain as
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Eisenberg, who got home from that trip and immediately
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  Speaker 1: wrote a play that and she became a real paint,
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  Speaker 1: which is in theaters that's direct from Hollywood.