“It was the greatest mistake of my career”: this actor rejected the role he gained the Oscar to Kieran Culkin

“It was the greatest mistake of my career”: this actor rejected the role he gained the Oscar to Kieran Culkin


Kieran Culkin won the Oscar for the best supporting actor for real pain and was not the first option for the role.

In the midst of all acclamation Succession received, one of the salient moments was Kieran Culkinwho took an Emmy like one of the Roy Brothers. With the end of production, he returned to cinemas with Real pain AND Oscar took home the best supporting actor – For the sadness of a star who refused the film Jesse Eisenberg.




The actor and comic Eric André Revealed to Jimmy Kimmel Live! (through people) who Read the script for real pain and refused the role that went to Kieran Culkin.

I was working on something else when I read the script. I read the script. There were about 120 pages on two Jews chatting on the Holocaust, and this seemed a little depressing in the first reading. And I thought: ‘Do you know something? I am a comedian; I want to continue in my comic area ‘

At the time, Eric André did not know if Jesse Eisenberg’s film would have been the best choice for his career, but today he considers “The biggest mistake in all my career”.

The comedian praised Culkin and Eisenberg as “incredibly talented” and confessed to not having read the entire script of real pain. “I read 10 first pages. Who reads a script? Do you know how much a script is reading? [remédio estimulante] From the world he managed to let me read a script. I agree with the films and I don’t even know what happens after the second act “.

The real pain, with script and direction of Jesse Eisenberg, accompanies David (Eisenberg) …

Original article published on Adocinema

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Source: Terra

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