Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Jesse Eisenberg used to think acting was a “ridiculous job”.
The 42-year-old star has admitted to having had a “negative opinion about acting”, because he thought it was over-rewarded and “vain”.
Speaking at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Jesse told reporters: “I used to have this negative opinion about acting because I was an actor and I just thought, ‘This is just such a ridiculous job. They pay us too much. We’re vain’.
“We want to look pretty in the morning, we want to stay in the nicest places, and we want to not ever lift anything on movie sets, and then we want all the credit for the movie!
“I was always like, ‘This is a weird job, and it’s not fair.’ And then on my first movie, I saw Julianne Moore rehearsing for a scene.”
Jesse has reunited with Julianne to make The Debut, his new musical comedy film.
The Hollywood star – who has written, co-produced and directed The Debut – recalled: “She was going through a real, deep emotional process to get ready for the scene. I remember looking at it, and I go, ‘Oh, wait a second, that’s really hard.’ Like we’re all out here joking, and I’m having a donut, and she’s in there suffering.
“I realised, ‘Oh, maybe acting is actually a really valuable thing. Maybe difficult. Maybe it’s challenging. Maybe it takes a lot. And suddenly, in [one] moment, my entire opinion on acting changed because I saw somebody else doing it, and it wasn’t just about me.”
Meanwhile, Jesse previously acknowledged that popularity in the film industry is “transient”.
The actor enjoyed a career breakthrough in 2010, when he played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network – but Jesse now recognises that fame and success can be fleeting.
The film star told The Independent: “I’d been in some popular movies before – not as popular – and I’d seen kind of what happens: you’re celebrated for a brief period of time, and you’re on top of some vague lists and agencies for a few months, and then you go back to whatever your status is in the movie industry.”
