Jesse Eisenberg interview at Vanity Fair's Oscars party

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00:00Would you dance to a song with your, in your drag persona?

00:05What is it? Bubble, what, bubble wrap?

00:07Glitter, you're, wow, good memory. Jesus Christ, wow.

00:11Yes, yeah, yeah, it's always easier to dance.

00:13You know, in acting school, you do mask work and you put on the mask and the paradoxical thing you learn in five seconds

00:18is that, oh, you're far more free in the mask than you are, whatever. So, yes.

00:22Do you get a chance to relax now? No, no, I'm three weeks away from shooting.

00:26So, um, I'm working with the cinematographer of Honora, so he would, you know, he's up on stage and

00:32we can play back tomorrow for pre-production. Yeah.

00:35Wow, that's,

00:37that is, that's a mitzvah. You got the Oscar-winning

00:41cinematographer.

00:43What was it like in the room tonight? Did you ever get used to it? Oh, yeah, it was great.

00:47I mean, I'm Conan O'Brien's biggest fan, so that was really exciting and

00:52yeah, it was like a, it was, I saw why it's the Oscars because I've been to like tons of award shows now.

00:59It's quite an illustrious production.

01:01You made Emma cry a little bit, didn't you? Did you expect to make her cry

01:08talking and praising her so much? Oh, I mean, she really has done like, really wonders for me.

01:13Like, yes, she's one of these unusual people that started like, you know, she's very successful obviously,

01:18but she started like, a company to make films that like, wouldn't really be made, you know, by other companies,

01:23especially in the studio system, etc. So she's doing like, kind of an amazing thing, you know,

01:28in the community, in the independent film community. Do you have another project you're gonna do with her? Yeah, yeah,

01:33we're, you know, she was on Scouts with me last week and... Oh, she's doing Scouts?

01:37We were in Patterson, New Jersey last week looking at apartment buildings together. So yeah.

01:42Patterson, New Jersey? For the movie, not, we're not moving in together, you know.

01:45Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not moving to Patterson, nor... We each live with our own families after we do the Scouts. Yeah.