The Forgotten Jesse Eisenberg Interview That's Hard To Watch Now

So what is the cringeworthy interview in question?In 2013, Jesse Eisenberg sat down with Romina Puga for a segment of her show, Say My Name.Puga admittedly started off rough by referring to Eisenberg'sNow You See Me co-star, Morgan Freeman,as "Freeman." But Eisenberg pounced on the casual setting, insulting Puga multiple times. "You are like the

So what is the cringeworthy interview in question? In 2013, Jesse Eisenberg sat down with Romina Puga for a segment of her show, Say My Name. Puga admittedly started off rough by referring to Eisenberg's Now You See Me co-star, Morgan Freeman, as "Freeman." But Eisenberg pounced on the casual setting, insulting Puga multiple times. "You are like the [comedian] Carrot Top of interviewers," he tells her whilst doing a magic trick. He then urged her to "cry after the interview is over." Puga concluded, "You're such a jerk." Eisenberg simply looked like a bully.

According to NME, Eisenberg "emerged unscathed," yet, years later, he's still answering for it. "I remember she was laughing," he told the outlet in 2020. "Even after she left, I said to the people in the room, 'what a relief'. Like, that was the most funny, interesting interview I'd had all day." Puga felt differently, writing in a Tumblr post (that also answered whether the whole thing was a joke-gone-awry or actual train-wreck) that Eisenberg "isn't very nice." 

"[Hearing that] was, like, the exact opposite of what my experience was..." Eisenberg added to NME. "Everyone that's seen it tells me they thought it was a funny thing. Listen, I would never wanna upset somebody, and if I did upset her, obviously I would have acknowledged that." Jesse Eisenberg claimed he was unable to contact Puga to apologize. Oy. 

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