Jana Banin June 5, 2013
Jesse Eisenberg attending
the “Now You See Me” Los Angeles Premiere, May 2013. (Andrew Evans / PR Photos)
Lately the “Now You See Me”
actor has received lots of flak–from straight up “Jesse Eisenberg made female
reporter cry” type headlines to more creative entries, such as Gawker’s “Dick or
Not a Dick: Jesse Eisenberg.”
What’s the deal? We decided
to put our analyst hats on and take a deeper look into this (admittedly not
very perplexing) trend.
1. Way up at the tippy
top of this list, towering above all other reasons, is the now viral interview
Eisenberg did with Romina Puga for Fusion (a “fusion,” you might say, of ABC
and Univision). Yes, it’s possible he was frustrated from talking to a million
and one reporters as part of his recent press junket, or that Puga was
genuinely annoying, or that his cat died. Still, there’s simply just no getting
around the fact that Eisenberg was really mean.
“Do you know the comedian
Carrot Top?” he asks Puga, who affirms that she does indeed know of Carrot Top,
and that she thinks he’s terrible. “Well you are like the Carrot Top of
interviewers.” Yep, it’s that bad.
2. In case it was unclear
that Puga was crushed after the interview, she posted a recap on Tumblr,
in which she hammers home how just how awful he was to her with several
“UGH”s.
She also fills us in on what
happened when the cameras stopped rolling. ”I went behind a curtain to
wait for the memory cards from the interview. I peaked around the curtain to
ask Jesse about his neighborhood in New York (he lives a few blocks from where
I used to live) and he immediately says, “You’re still here?”
(Apparently “self-esteem butchering” can lead to spelling butchering.
“Peaked”?)
3. Eisenbeg played the
highly unlikeable Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network.” It’s hard to look at
the guy without thinking of that role, so it’s possible we (and the
Eisenberg-skewering media) have brought some of that baggage along to our viral
video viewing.
[...]
5. He probably is sort
of a jerk. Have you seen that video?
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