Kieran Culkin Tried to Back Out of Starring in ‘A Real Pain’

Kieran Culkin has actually had a truly active month. He’s grabbed a Golden World and an Emmy over the previous 2 weeks, and currently he goes to the Sundance Movie Event for the best of “A Real Pain,” a brand-new comedy-drama in which he stars together with supervisor Jesse Eisenberg, and which at one factor he tried to back out of.

“I did try to pull out of the film. I had just finished a long job…something you may have heard of, it was called ‘SUCK-cession,’” Culkin quipped at TheWrap’s Sundance Picture and Meeting Workshop offered by NFP.

“I remember thinking, ‘Why am I doing this? Why am I going for five weeks?’” Culkin remembered. “I just wanted to be home with the kids, and just have time and wanted a reason to say no. So I re-read the script and just started laughing my ass off. I went to my wife and said, ‘Sorry, honey, I think we’re going to have to go to Poland and…work…’”

In “A Real Pain,” which was simply obtained by Searchlight for a launch later on this year, Culkin plays Benji, a free-spirited however candid male that takes place a journey to Poland with his relative, David, played by Eisenberg, after the fatality of their Holocaust survivor grandma.

While the relatives are close, the journey reveals the underlying stress in between them as they map their grandma’s steps, consisting of a browse through to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Eisenberg created and guided “A Real Pain” as a method to check out the sensations of “privilege, guilt and self-hatred” he’s experienced as a Jewish American and hearing tales concerning the harmful antisemitism dealt with by previous generations throughout the Holocaust and various other durations of globe background.

“I thought this would be a very interesting way to explore this, with two men who have different kinds of modern pain against the backdrop of something very global,” Eisenberg informed TheWrap’s editor-in- primary Sharon Waxman. “I also think it could be something funny, too, to have these petty grievances against the backdrop of a concentration camp.”

Also after making the movie, Eisenberg isn’t certain where this weird feeling of shame originated from.

“There’s a doom loop. You feel guilt on top of the self-hatred, and then self-hatred for feeling guilty…it’s just awful. Maybe it’s something cultural and maybe it’s something about survival, constantly worrying about everything will make you prepared,” he stated.

Enjoy the complete meeting in the clip over.

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