Jesse Eisenberg is going to swag out playing a sasquatch for his next film role: 'Full body hair, no lines. I grunt, but no lines.'
Midway through the Sarajevo Film Festival, local fest publications seized on a quote that Jesse Eisenberg had given in Q&As that week: Sarajevo, the actor-writer-director said, is his favorite city in the world. From some stars, that would be an empty soundbite; from Eisenberg, who stayed at the festival for several days to explore local culture and history, it was entirely heartfelt.
The festival, meanwhile, returned his love, presenting him with an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award, and hosting an open-air screening of his directorial debut, “When You Finish Saving the World,” a bittersweet satire of generational conflict, and the contemporary nuances of charity and activism.
“Maybe unconsciously I thought I could direct a movie, but I never allowed myself to think of it explicitly, because it just feels like such a cliche,” says Eisenberg — who was Oscar-nominated in 2011 for playing Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s generation-defining “The Social Network,” but this time opted to stay behind the camera.
Directing actors, however, brought out his nerves. “I’ve received so many bad notes in my life as an actor,” he explains. “I was so unnecessarily fearful that I’d be giving them to my actors.” With Moore, however, he hardly had to worry: “She’s the best,” he says simply, adding that like him, she gravitates toward characters who are “very cold and very warm at the same time, their coldness [coming] from their own insecurities rather than their own malice.
The film also marks an unlikely reunion between Eisenberg and his old “Zombieland” co-star Stone, who likewise flexes her off-screen muscles, having produced “When You Finish Saving the World” with her husband Dave McCary. Despite branching out like his, however, Eisenberg is eager to return to acting, and speaks with particular excitement of a surprising upcoming role in a film from fraternal directing duo David and Nathan Zellner. “I play a Sasquatch: full makeup, full body hair, no lines.
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