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• But then right after the first scene, he’d be like, ‘cut’ and start giving me notes and my first thought was like ‘Bitch, I’ve got notes for you too.’” By now, laughter had replaced sobbing throughout the Eccles Theater, where the film debuted..
• Eisenberg, all schlub self-deprecation in hiking boots, plaid shirt and sports jacket, began by thanking “the best producers you can have reading your scripts, and the best producers telling you to make it shorter.” He then brought out Culkin, who you may have heard is having a good month..
• Nevertheless, the question and answer period afterward was funnier than an evening at the local yuck factory — and after the credits rolled, the audience leapt to its feet, giving the film an enthusiastic standing ovation..
• “They were taken out of there in 1939.” He still insisted that the film wasn’t overly autobiographical and depended more on the fraught relationship between the two cousins, a theme he has explored in some of his plays..
• On their journey, the two visit a Polish concentration camp, come to grips with a suicide attempt and wonder about how their own pain compares with the pain their ancestors endured during the Holocaust..
• “It has a greater kind of cathartic feeling because I’m calling my dad and saying, ‘we went into the house today,'” he said..