Sometimes red carpets can be a real pain.
While posing for photos at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Jesse Eisenberg confided in his A Real Pain costar Kieran Culkin about some of his all-too-relatable fears about their big movie premiere.
"He's just an anxious person," Culkin told E! News' The Rundown host Erin Lim Rhodes at the Jan. 20 event. "Just now, I had my arm around him and he was shaking."
The Succession actor continued, "He said, 'Everything, when I go outside, makes me nervous.'"
According to Culkin, work was no exception. "Our styles definitely clashed," he said about their shooting methods on their film set. "He came to the trailer I was in and he was like, 'OK, are you ready for today?' I was like, 'Oh, I actually don't know what we're shooting today, but it'll be fine.' And that made him really nervous."
According to the Emmy winner, who made his acting debut at age 7 in 1990's Home Alone with brother Macaulay Culkin, he and Eisenberg are "just two very different people that happen to do the same job and we work differently."
He added, "But I think once we started doing it, it worked."
Following Culkin's comments, several fans expressed empathy with the Social Network actor.
"I've never related to Jesse Eisenberg more than in this moment," one TikTok user commented on the clip, while another said, "Jesse is so real."
Others couldn't help but draw comparisons to the Zombieland star's onscreen characters.
"So what you're saying is that Jesse Eisenberg plays himself in most films and it's not a bit," one person wrote. "That tracks."
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Aubrey Plaza, Kieran Culkin & Steven Yeun
Casamigos x TAO Park City party
AnnaSophia Robb
Casamigos x TAO Park City
Sebastian Stan
A Different Man premiere
Dylan O'Brien
The Hollywood Reporter Studio sponsored by Heineken Silver
Camila Cabello
The Vulture Spot
Kerry Washington
IndieWire Sundance Studio presented by Dropbox
Jesse Eisenberg
Cinema Cafe
Kristen Stewart
Love Lies Bleeding premiere
Andra Day
New York Magazine The Cut’s "How I Get It Done" event
Chris Colfer
GLAAD x Meredith Marks Park City boutique event
Este Haim
Suncoast premiere
Lux Pascal
Project Blackbird's "Mental Health in Film" panel
Riley Keough
Gotham Sundance Dinner
Glen Powell
IMDb Portrait Studio at Acura House of Energy
Saoirse Ronan
The Outrun premiere
Julia Fox
Variety's Sundance Studio
Steven Yeun & Kristen Stewart
Love Me premiere
Riley Keough
Sasquatch Sunset premiere
Jason Schwartzman
Between the Temples premiere
Malia Obama
The Heart premiere at the Short Film Program
Robert Downey Jr. & Christopher Nolan
Opening Night Gala
Jay Ellis & Pedro Pascal
Freaky Tales world premiere
Kristen Stewart
Opening Night Gala
Normani
Freaky Tales world premiere
Jennifer Grey
Opening Night Gala
Dylan Mulvaney
ALOK premiere at the Short Film Program