Jesse Eisenberg admitted he liked it when Emma Stone insulted him during ‘Zombieland’ audition.
The actor explained that he was already cast in the movie, but he still had to audition with other actresses for Stone’s role. He mentioned that the actresses were all polite, trying to get into the movie.
“And then [Stone] came in, and she just started making fun of me in the scene, like just assaulting me with insults in the scene and it was so funny,” he recalled on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. “They were so quick and so funny and cutting.”
Eisenberg added, “And she left the room and I just felt so, so small. We were like, ‘Oh my God. That person is a genius.’ And maybe she was 19 even at that time of the audition. I mean, she’s a truly spectacularly, unusually brilliant person.”
“He’s the most curious person I’ve ever met,” Stone mentioned Eisenberg during a 2022 press interview for the film. “He studies everyone and asks so many questions. He has a deep empathy to him. I knew that from acting with him, so it just felt like a no-brainer that we’d attempt to work on something with him.”
In ‘Zombieland,’ a virus has turned most people into zombies. Four strangers (Eisenberg, Stone, Abigail Breslin, and Woody Harrelson) travel west to find a safe place in Los Angeles.
The cast returned in 2019 for the sequel, ‘Zombieland: Double Tap,’ which also featured Zoey Deutch, Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Avan Jogia, and Bill Murray, who reprised his role as himself.
Stone also co-produced Eisenberg’s new film, ‘A Real Pain.’ He starred in, wrote, and directed it, and it was released in select theaters on November 1. The movie is about David (Eisenberg) traveling through Poland with his cousin, Benji (Kieran Culkin).
