Jesse Eisenberg
Jason Mendez/WireImageJesse Eisenberg He said he was in the process of becoming a Polish citizen.
“I applied for Polish citizenship about nine months ago. Obviously, all the paperwork has already been submitted and I’m just waiting for the final signature,” Eisenberg, 40, told the local newspaper. Gloss Wielkopolski earlier this month. “My family is from the south-east of Poland, from Krasnystaw. My wife’s family is from Lodz. We wanted to build better ties with Poland, and I want to work more here.”
Eisenberg, who is married To Anna Strouttold that he started shooting for his directed film a real pain wanted to “repeat” this with future projects in Poland.
“I feel a bond with Poland,” he said. “Growing up, I heard stories about the Polish relationship with my Jewish family, and all those stories were amazing. We were best friends with the Polish people.”
Eisenberg’s a real painwhich he directed and starred in, was inspired by his ancestral home in Poland. (The picture will be released in October.)
“My family lived in Krasnystaw until the war started. One guy survived the war and moved to Szczecin. Sadly, he died recently from COVID,” social network The star explained. “The film is a work of fiction. It’s about two American cousins who go to Poland on a trip to their roots, to see where their family came from. It’s a film that’s a work of fiction. A short friendship comedy [and] We filmed in all the places where my family comes from.”
a real pain It was filmed in Krasnystaw, Warsaw, Lublin, Krasniki and Radom, which inspired his citizenship plan.
“When I worked here, I met people who had connections to the government. So I told them I wanted to build better relations between Jews and the Polish people,” Eisenberg said. “For me, it’s very sad that these relations are not the best. I told them I would love to do that. My family is from here, my wife’s family is from here. I asked: ‘Is there an option to apply for Polish citizenship?'”
Eisenberg, who is from New York, Growing up in Judaism And he reconnected with his religion only in the last days of his life.
,[Chabad] I had a bar mitzvah and I had never done that before,” he previously explained W magazine in 2010 from the religious organization, which helped him prepare for playing a Hasidic Jew Holy Rollers. “But, personally, I was always just thinking about the film and the character. I wasn’t really having a purely spiritual experience.”
Prior to his ritual bar mitzvah, Eisenberg knew only “the most basic prayers” and was reportedly not encouraged to memorize any portion of the Torah.
our weekly Eisenberg’s representatives have been contacted for further comment regarding his citizenship process.
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