A Real Pain is a movie about a unique, often tragic form of tourism. Below, Eisenberg and cinematographer Michał Dymek talk about trying to capture an American tourist's journey through Poland, their delicate approach to filming at the Majdanek concentration camp, and the rich history of Jewish life hiding in plain sight.

Jesse Eisenberg had a bad case of writer’s block. The Oscar nominee was penning a script about two friends who take a trip to Mongolia. The characters were pulled from two plays he had written: one about a guy named David,

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions unless of course they’re dumb ones. Speaking of which, I never understood the dismissiveness when it came to Jesse Eisenberg. The actor he grew into, with his Oscar-nominated turn in “The Social Network,