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[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.

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Jesse Eisenberg
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: October 5
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