Kieran Culkin And Jesse Eisenberg Talk ‘A Real Pain’, ‘Home Alone’ & ‘Succession’ At Tribeca Festival
deadline.comKieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg talked, quipped, traded barbs and compliments and debated process in an hourlong wacky Tribeca Festival conversation tonight, having clearly bonded over A Real Pain.
They star as mismatched cousins on a fraught road trip in the buzzy Sundance comedy set for fall release. Eisenberg (Fleishman Is In Trouble) wrote and directed the film and said he’d never seen Culkin’s work before casting him.
Or nothing recent. He acknowledged he’d seen Home Alone 17 times. The 1990 film was Culkin’s first feature. He played a small part alongside his brother, Macaulay Culkin. “I had no idea what the f–king movie was about” at the time, Culkin reminisced. “You’re a magical person in my mind, because I don’t think I’ve ever really seen you in almost anything.
And then, when I thought about you in the movie, I purposefully didn’t watch anything. And Succession, at the time when I was writing, it was like not as deep as it was now that it’s over,” Eisenberg told the Emmy and Golden Globe-winner who portrayed Roman Roy in the HBO hit. “So why did you cast me?” Culkin asked. “You have an intuition about people … I had an intuition about you.
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