The 2025 Oscars precipitated Eric André some actual ache.

The comic has revealed that Jesse Eisenberg requested him to affix A Real Pain to play Benji, the function that in the end received Kieran Culkin an Academy Award for Greatest Supporting Actor.

"Two years in the past, Jesse Eisenberg calls me and provided me the function that Kieran Culkin bought the Oscar for," André stated on the brand new episode of Andrew Santino's Whiskey Ginger podcast. "I learn the script. I used to be like, 'I dunno if I wanna go to Poland.'"

André defined that his hesitation to be within the movie, about two cousins who journey to Poland to honor their grandmother, stemmed from his personal darkish household historical past. "All my Jewish facet is Polish Jews that bought cooked within the focus camps," he stated. "So I used to be like, 'That appears actually depressing, and never in my lane.' I learn the script, and I used to be like, 'To go to Poland for six weeks and shoot a film the place we're simply babbling concerning the Holocaust looks as if a bummer.'"

He added that he declined Eisenberg's provide as a result of he didn't assume he may match the undertaking's wavelength. "I used to be like, 'I recognize the provide, positive it's gonna be nice. I don't assume that's what I'm on the lookout for proper now,'" he recalled. "I used to be similar to, 'This can be a lot of labor.' It was an amazing quantity of dialogue. It's a variety of work for one thing I'm not completely positive I'm proper for, and I wish to give attention to a film that bought pushed 50 occasions due to all of the strikes that I couldn't have predicted."

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André wasn't notably thrilled when he noticed the end result of the Oscars' Greatest Supporting Actor race. "The motherf—er received an Oscar for the function I handed on," he stated. "And it's not like I get provided roles continuously. I'm not f—in' Leonardo DiCapricock. It's occasionally I get provided a task, and I stated 'no' to one of many solely occasions I've been provided a task, and it become an Academy Award."

He continued, "It nonetheless stings while you're watching Hollywood burn, you're watching America burn, and also you're watching the Oscars, and also you're like, 'Oh, possibly I ought to've taken that.'"

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Santino additionally famous that Culkin's heritage doesn't match Benji's background as precisely as André's does. "That child's not even Jewish, Culkin. They're not Jewish, are they?" he requested.

André responded, "I don't assume so. They're Catholic."

Later, when André instructed that Santino may have performed Culkin's function within the film, the host replied, "I'm not Jewish!"

André shot again, "Neither is Kieran Culkin."

However Santino instructed that Culkin's expertise transcended ethnic id. "Yeah, however he's Kieran Culkin, my man. Succesh?"

"By no means seen it," André stated. "I'm on the primary season of Lost. And that's not a joke."

Watch the total dialog between André and Santino above.

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