Kieran Culkin somewhat panicked Jesse Eisenberg on the set of A Real Pain. And at the star of The social Networkwho was directing in addition to playing one of the main roles, had prepared every plan of the film down to the millimeter, going so far as to shoot preliminary versions with his cell phone, his sidekick had chosen to arriving on set without even having learned his lines.
“He’s anxiety personified,” Kieran Culkin joked on an episode of the SmartLess podcast. “Nothing panicked him more than seeing me arrive on set and ask: ‘What are we shooting today?’ And he answers me: “What?! You have a one-page speech, what’s wrong with you?” »
Learning on the job
In this film, Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg play two Jewish American cousins who go to Poland to honor the memory of their grandmother. And it turns out that the director ended up abandoning his filming plan after two or three days in favor of his on-screen partner’s laid-back approach.
“I learn the lines quickly, there’s nothing to worry about,” Kieran Culkin explained, adding that he picked up the habit on the set of Succession, where scripts were sometimes changed the same day of filming. In any case, if you want to see Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg improvising while crossing Poland, A Real Pain will arrive on February 26 in French theaters.
