Jesse Eisenberg Recasts Himself As a Playwright in The Revisionist | NY Mag

Gabay paints a picture of the real Eisenberg as a brainy Everyman, more confident than his characters but no cockier than the average urban creative. “One thing that really says who he is: I remember on Oscar Night, when the other dude won, he sent me a text—”

“Wait, wait, what did I say?” Eisenberg interjects. Gabay whispers into his ear. “Oh, okay.” Eisenberg gives the go-ahead.

“He said, ‘I just want to remind you to feed my cat.’ And then he said—can I say the rest?” More whispering. “Then he said, ‘I was gonna remind you in a speech, but I was denied.’ That was cute.”

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Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie’s Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line | Vulture

This interview is fantastic, but my favorite part is the discussion of gentrification:

But this isn’t Mookie’s Brooklyn anymore.

It’s so different. But it’s all different. There’s gentrification of Cobble Hill. Fort Greene’s gentrified, Harlem was gentrified, Bed-Stuy’s gentrified, and Williamsburg is gentrified.

People lived on the Lower East Side and got priced out of there. Then you moved to Williamsburg—oh, it became too hip. Now they are going to Bushwick. What is going to happen to Bushwick? Next thing, after Coney Island, there is the Atlantic Ocean.

Only Staten Island will be left.

I’m sure that will be the last resort.

Alan Cumming as Banquo.

“It’s just madness, despair, and mental illness.”

(via: Alan Cumming Explains His One-Man Macbeth | Vulture)

Emma Stone’s Spidey Sense Is Tingling | Vulture

The pretty thing … It was never a value to me growing up. I always thought I was like the goofy, wonky one.

Pretty adorkable. 

Important question.

(via: 10 Questions Left Unanswered at the End of Prometheus | Vulture)