Someone Else's Movie

Jesse Eisenberg on Submarine

Episode Summary

Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg -- whose first feature as a writer and director, When You Finish Saving the World, is now playing in the US and opening in Canada this Friday, January 27th -- celebrates actor Richard Ayoade's own first feature, the coming-of-age drama Submarine. Your genial host Norm Wilner thinks he can keep up.

Episode Notes

As he makes his debut as a writer and director with When You Finish Saving the World -- now playing in the US and opening in Canada this Friday, January 27th -- Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Social Network, Night Moves and many, many more) shares his love for another actor's first feature: Richard Ayoade's 2010 debut Submarine, a coming-of-age tale starring Craig Roberts as a misfit kid in 1980s Wales trying to keep his parents from drifting apart and lose his virginity before he turns sixteen ... not necessarily in that order. Your genial host Norm Wilner thinks he can keep up.