| JESSE EISENBERG is even more neurotic than I am. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Friday, 10 December 2010 12:09 |
 ...and you thought I was neurotic? JESSE EISENBERG takes neurosis to all new highs. In an interview with Movieline, Eisenberg is asked about how his life has changed since starring in 'Zombieland' and 'The Social Network', and reveals his plans to collect fan photos for a book - which I think is adorable - but it's his crazy paranoia over his computer being hacked that has me concerned for the poor dude. Read the full Movieline interview HERE. EISENBERG: "I had this idea, which I think I may implement: People ask to take pictures of me all of the time. This is like, in the last five years: Somebody recognizes you on the street. And I wasn’t recognized five years ago. But it’s occurred to me that with technology everybody takes a picture on their camera phone. So I had the idea that I’d only agree to take a picture — because always, inevitably, you have to take a picture on somebody’s little cell phone — I thought it would be a good idea that they can take a picture on the condition that they will e-mail me the picture. And then I’ll have all of these pictures. Then I can kind of like put them out as a book to show the absolute absurdity of it: Of standing there with my same dumb expression with 100 different people. Have you started doing that yet? You really should. No. My only concern is that if I get an e-mail address and somebody hacks into my computer. Do you know anything about computers? Is that possible? I’m not an expert, but I think if you just set up a Gmail account specifically for this, like Eisenbergpictureproject at gmail or something, you should be fine. Right! Right. That’s what I need to do. I’ll do it tonight. I wouldn’t give out your actual e-mail address. No, no, I’m not going to do that. But that’s totally safe? I think so? Could people hack in or send me viruses? I guess they could, but Gmail is pretty good about weeding those out. OK, Gmail. I need to get a Gmail account. This is going to be a great idea. This is a fantastic idea. [Laughs] Yeah. The only thing, how do you get people to follow through on that? Then again, I bet they’d be happy to do it: “Hey, I met Jesse Eisenberg, and now he wants me to e-mail him a photo of us.” I think they would be. I think if the experience is at all exciting for them — “Oh, I ran into someone I saw in a movie on the street…” — they’d want that experience to continue, if that means sending somebody a picture. They would want the story to continue, “He even gave me his email address!” “Wait, his e-mail is EisenbergPictures@gmail?” [Laughs]"   |
