Jesse Eisenberg is always receptive to constructive feedback about filmmaking, even if it embarrasses him.
While making his comic drama film, A Real Pain, which he wrote, directed, produced, and acted in, Eisenberg was humbled by his co-star Keiran Culkin while commanding him to stand at his mark.
In an interview with Page Six published on Sunday, November 3, the Social Network actor recalled telling Culkin, "We have this gorgeous shot, these statues behind you, and it's beautiful," but the Succession star "just wouldn't stand on that mark."
Culkin had a different idea: shoot in hand-held documentary style.
Eisenberg admitted it: "And I realised, OK, the way we're going to be filming Kieran is going to be, you know, with the camera on our camerman's shoulder and not getting the kind of gorgeous vistas that I had been planning for months."
The Zombieland alum went on, "I was immediately embarrassed." I usually try to evaluate what behavior I can modify, which is my own, and I was thinking, "Year, I'm probably in the wrong here." Let's produce the movie that will make Keiran the most successful."
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