12:06 pm - 09/21/2012
Vanessa Redgrave will star alongside Jesse Eisenberg in Eisenberg's new play The Revisionist. Directed by David Van Asselt, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production will play off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre from February 6, 2013 through March 31. Opening night is set for February 21.
In The Revisionist, David (Eisenberg) travels to Poland as he struggles with writer's block. His 75-year-old cousin Maria (Redgrave) invites him to stay at her home in hopes of further connecting with her distant American family. As their relationship buds, Maria reveals details about her difficult post-war life that test their ideas of what it means to be family.
Eisenberg wrote and starred in the off-Broadway comedy Asuncion. He received an Academy Award nomination for The Social Network. His other film credits include Adventureland, Roger Dodger, Holy Rollers, Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less and The Squid and the Whale. Redgrave earned a Tony Award for Long Day's Jounrey Into Night and additional nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. She received an Academy Award for Julia and nominations for Howard's End, The Bostonians, Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora and Morgan!
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So excited! I have a feeling Jesse wasn't going to cast himself in the play unless she agreed to do it, since there was no real word that he was going to be in the play prior to this. There were casting calls for his part. This is where I got that Vanessa was his "celebrity crush" from: http://bullettmedia.com/article/jesse-e
Jesse Eisenberg's crush, Vanessa Redgrave, will co-star with him in "The Revisionist"!
Vanessa Redgrave will star alongside Jesse Eisenberg in Eisenberg's new play The Revisionist. Directed by David Van Asselt, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production will play off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre from February 6, 2013 through March 31. Opening night is set for February 21.
In The Revisionist, David (Eisenberg) travels to Poland as he struggles with writer's block. His 75-year-old cousin Maria (Redgrave) invites him to stay at her home in hopes of further connecting with her distant American family. As their relationship buds, Maria reveals details about her difficult post-war life that test their ideas of what it means to be family.
Eisenberg wrote and starred in the off-Broadway comedy Asuncion. He received an Academy Award nomination for The Social Network. His other film credits include Adventureland, Roger Dodger, Holy Rollers, Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less and The Squid and the Whale. Redgrave earned a Tony Award for Long Day's Jounrey Into Night and additional nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. She received an Academy Award for Julia and nominations for Howard's End, The Bostonians, Mary, Queen of Scots, Isadora and Morgan!
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So excited! I have a feeling Jesse wasn't going to cast himself in the play unless she agreed to do it, since there was no real word that he was going to be in the play prior to this. There were casting calls for his part. This is where I got that Vanessa was his "celebrity crush" from: http://bullettmedia.com/article/jesse-e
speaking of similar physical appearances... he's mentioned at least in two interviews that he and his girlfriend are actually distantly related :O
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-a
like, yes, if you dig back enough, i'm sure you could find out that you and your sig other could be like 14 cousins twice removed but.. why would you even want to go and talk about it? idek.
oh nvm, I don't really know anything about him lbr
I hate it when that happens.
I'm googling it now tho
...but six
Are you always that critical of yourself?
Yeah, usually more so. I did a movie 2 years ago —it was called Adventureland — and I kept a notebook of the takes that I liked. I gave them to the script supervisor who keeps track of that, and the director, he was very upset. He was upset, of course, because that’s not my job to do.
i think they're upping the anti a bit. i don't remember them having a seperate website for the play, the ticket prices are raised from $75-80 t0 $86, and i notice that opening night is by invitation now, where it wasn't last time. i also notice that the original run time was 'til april 20th, and they shortened to march 31st (unless they extend it again). i'm wondering if any of this has to do with vanessa redgrave being in this or not. i'm thinking that meeting jesse might be harder now, since vanessa redgrave is in it too. i don't really know.