“The first movie I was in was called Roger Dodger,” Eisenberg said. “And the main actor in that [Campbell Scott], he won this award, the National Board of Review award. And it was the first time I ever considered… Because I had acted since I was young — 8 years old — doing children’s theater, and I was doing plays in New York. When he won that award, I remember that day where I was because I had never heard of that award nor did I pay attention to any awards. And then I was kind of exposed, very briefly, because the movie was a $1 million movie. After he won that award, the movie people and the distribution company got a little bit confident about what that could be, at least for him.
“And I was immediately kind of turned off to the seemingly very kind of complicated process. And lengthy process. I just loved working with those people that I was working with, so I was happy to get to see them a these dinners and stuff. And luckily I didn’t have to deal with any of the pressure because the pressure was not on me personally. This is a bit more intense because the movie is big, the expectations are higher. And so it’s a lot of pressure, and it’s something you can’t do anything about. Like I can’t go and react if you don’t get acknowledged for something.
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