The Eisenberg approach
IT WOULD HAVE been all too easy for Jesse Eisenberg to get typecast as the über-smart, über-neurotic, fast-talking nerdy guy. Not least because Jesse Eisenberg himself is an über-smart, über-neurotic, fast-talking nerdy guy. And that’s a well the 36-year-old actor has returned to on occasion. But he’s also (über-) smart enough to try to break out of any envelope in which Hollywood might try to seal him, taking on roles in indies and blockbusters alike that stretch him as an actor.
With new releasemarking one such role, we caught up with him on the phone and asked him to talk us through seven of his most memorable characters.
