On Children's Day 6.1, the official Weibo account of the People's Literature Publishing House published a video titled "You have a new message from Jesse Eisenberg, please pay attention to check it", which triggered a heated discussion. It turned out that It turned out that The Hollywood actor, playwright, novelist and author of "EatIng Sea bream makes me burp" Jesse Eisenberg's theatrical masterpiece "Pampered and Proud" was published at the agency. To celebrate the launch of the new book, Jesse Eisenberg, who has not appeared in public for a long time, shot this video in particular for Chinese readers.
The show of the same name, adapted from the show, was staged in New York and London in 2015 and 2016, with Jesse Eisenberg co-starring prominent Indian actor Kunnau Neya (as Rajesh in The Big Bang Theory) and was recommended by the New York Times drama critics. The duo played New Yorker And Kayan, a Nepalese immigrant. In the play, no one likes Ben, his humorous poisonous tongue will always hurt the people around him, and Kayan is always bullied by him. The director major of this study has no works and no income, and "nibbles on the old" to live a life, but he is always unaccustomed to the world and looks down on everyone. By chance, he discovers that his first love, Sarah, is going to marry his banker classmate Ted, and he disregards his work ethic and creates an opportunity to be alone with Sarah... Winner of the Blanche and Owen Laurie Foundation Drama Awards, the play is a comical but profound exploration of the contradictory spiritual world of contemporary young New Yorkers, both angry and helpless, but also sensitive and eager to care.
Jesse Eisenberg, on the set of "The Incredibles 2", shot by John Chu
Jesse Eisenberg said that the reason why he wrote this play at the age of 31 was to express the exchange and collision of ideas and spirits when people from different cultures in a metropolis like New York met, and also to imagine what kind of life 30+ people live. The enthusiastic response to the stage play made him think that perhaps the play expressed a broader theme of youth.
Benjamin Brantley, the chief writer of the New York Times drama, once said of the play, "From Dostoevsky's 'basement man' to the hesitant protagonists in the works of playwright Richard Greenberg and director Noah Baumbach, they have formed an immortal group portrait of 'masochism'; now 'Pampered and Proud' has contributed a typical one— Ben." ”
"Pampered and Proud" stage stills of the same name, illustrated on the inside page of the Chinese edition
The dialogue of this play is sharp and full of humor. Although the people in the play are young men and women living in New York, their rich emotions and dark twists and turns do not make us feel strange in reality. The PPT masters, Wall Street business elites, hospital nurses, school teachers, and "squatting waste firewood" in the play believe that readers will often have a smile on their hearts. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen
Source: Purple Cow News