How The Social Network inspired Jesse Eisenberg to start writing musicals
Q with Tom Power

How The Social Network inspired Jesse Eisenberg to start writing musicals

B1IntermediateSeptember 24, 202628 min
  • Interview
  • Arts & culture

Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, A Real Pain) drew on his own roots in community theatre to write and direct his latest movie, The Debut. Starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife-turned-actor and Paul Giamatti as a director pushing her to her limits, the film is inspired by the many unproduced musicals Jesse has penned over the years. He joins Tom Power in the Q studio to discuss The Debut, the relationship between art and anxiety, why some people hate musicals, and the role truth plays in entertainment.

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I'm Tom Power. Welcome to CUBE. All right, tell me if you've had this experience or you know someone who's had this experience. You're a kid, you feel a little like an outsider, like no one understands you. So you join something like, I don't know, a community group, a church, a sports team, maybe band or choir or theater.

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