The San Diego Comic-Con experience can be hectic and overwhelming, and it’s probably even worse for the stars of movies who have to put on a smiling face for thousands of fans packed into one room. For Jesse Eisenberg, the whole event was really too much.
While at the premiere for The End of the Tour on Monday in Los Angeles, the Oscar-nominated actor told the Associated Press that he didn’t really enjoy the screaming fans. In fact, he compared Comic-Con to “some kind of genocide.”
“It is like being screamed at by thousands of people,” Eisenberg, who was at SDCC for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, said. “I don't know what the experience is throughout history, probably some kind of genocide. I can't think of anything that's equivalent.”
In The End of The Tour, Eisenberg stars as journalist David Lipsky, who followed David Foster Wallace (How I Met Your Mother’s Jason Segel) on his tour for his Infinite Jest novel. So, Eisenberg was asked about his experience with journalists.
“Yes I have never been on the other side, on your side of journalism. I have normally been the victim so I worked with the guy who I play, I play a real person, David Lipsky,” Eisenberg told the AP. “I interviewed him. He taught me how to interview and what his process is like and now I understand the pariahs that you guys are.”
Eisenberg plays Lex Luthor in Dawn of Justice, which opens on March 25, 2016. As for End of the Tour, that movie hits theaters on July 31.
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