'A Real Pain' writer and star Jesse Eisenberg chats during The Hollywood Reporter Writers Roundtable and discusses his process when writing for 'A Real Pain' and how he wanted the story to feel "real" and "artful."
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00:00I don't write in final draft, I write in emails because I never want to feel like this thing is
00:05official until I know it's good and that it feels full and that it feels like something I want to do
00:10and so I kind of I'm always writing basically in with the idea that no one will ever read this and
00:16it kind of just relieves the pressure of has to be this page count and this font and all the
00:20official stuff that makes me feel like the thing is not artful and or personal and so I kind of
00:26write that way but with this script after I finished it I thought I had these pictures from
00:32when I went to Poland with my wife in 2008 and the pictures happened to be on the sets that
00:37we ultimately filmed at and I put the pictures in the back of the script to give the feeling
00:42a little bit to the reader of the reality of the thing and I also put all the music that I wanted
00:47to be in the movie in the various scenes that I wanted to play and so after I finished the script
00:54and I knew this felt personal and real and artful and not engineered or you know reverse engineered
00:59or anything to affect some kind of you know emotion or whatever I put in those little sign
01:05posts so that readers can at least feel that this thing is very personal and that was kind of a
01:09calculated decision but it only in so far as it helped people understand how kind of real it was.