Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg Talk ‘A Real Pain,’ Culkin’s First Post-‘Succession’ Project

Kieran Culkin talks about how he almost wanted to pull out of Jesse Eisenberg’s second feature as a director, “A Real Pain,” given the emotional ringer of “Succession.” Culkin and Eisenberg were at Sundance for the film, bought by Searchlight, and stopped by the IndieWire Studio presented by Dropbox to discuss this unique story of two cousins on a journey through Poland to discover where their grandmother lived. Eisenberg, whose ancestry traces back to Poland, received his Polish social security card right before arriving at Sundance.

[@radsec]

Looking forward to this! As a Polish person living in America this is an interesting story to me.

[@KasiaKempa]

Jesse is so great

[@metalhead3]

I love Kieran Culkin 😊

[@wesleyramirez1183]

Me likey

[@bartoszbeling8928]

So that is the video that sparked the Eisenberg Polish Citizenship hype in Poland...?

[@skaania]

interested in family history yet does not know why his last name is thw way it is :D

[@mastercalabaster9824]

He is a descendent of Polish-Jews. Polish-Jews often have German surnames. His answer was correct.

[@skaania]

@@mastercalabaster9824 I did not say his answers was incorrect. I was refering to him saying,and I quote: " ...the Jews that were living on German land or something like that I don't know..."

[@mastercalabaster9824]

@@skaania In his defense, many Polish-Jewish families came to Poland from the Holy Roman Empire (like a precursor to Germany) in like 13th-14th centuries. That's were the German sounding surnames come from, I think he was refering to that.

[@skaania]

@@mastercalabaster9824 you still do not get my point - I amd Polish and I do know why his surname is the way it is :) He is just obviously not sure which is just funny to me since he literally made a film and is giving an interview kinda on th etopic- could have prepared to answer such obvious question ..that's it

[@mastercalabaster9824]

@@skaania well in that case you are right. It is quite funny if not a bit weird.

[@jaguarkaboom8967]

1:30 geez even kieran says the script is boring.
i'll pass on this one.

[@emmanuelsalazar9424]

He said “the answers boring”, not the script. He followed that up by saying, he read the script and liked it, that’s why he wanted to act in it.

[@liaspathis]

did you not watch what he said? lmao he said his answer would be boring because it’s not his script

[@timlynch5710]

This looks very self-indulgnet. Navel -gazing. Boring.

[@StanisawKrzywda-gf8mi]

It's a shame about the scene of jokes/funny photos at the Warsaw Uprising Monument. This is disrespect for Polish Heroes. The characters of the film didn't joke like that with other monuments...