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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