Jesse Eisenberg: Café Society director Woody Allen is like no other I've worked with

Amy Ashenden3 September 2016
The Weekender

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Woody Allen works in a way unlike any other director, Jesse Eisenberg has said.

The Social Network star, who plays Bobby in Allen's latest film Café Society, said working with the Hollywood legend was dramatically different from his previous experiences of directors.

Set in 1930s LA, Café Society stars Eisenberg alongside Kristen Stewart, playing a secretary called Vonnie who breaks his heart.

Eisenberg said: “Woody Allen is just so efficient and clever that he’s able to make these wonderful movies in a way that no one else is working.

“He shoots efficiently and yet the acting is wonderful and the film looks beautiful. He has just developed a process that I haven’t ever seen before.

“I know when I’m on a movie like a Batman movie, I have to pace myself in a way that I don’t have to pace myself on a movie like Café Society where you get this one take of this five-page scene and you know that it’s only going to be in this one shot.

“So you don’t pace yourself – you give everything to this one shot.”

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