Jesse Eisenberg: Advice to ‘Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard

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The actor recalled the words that director Greg Mottola had told him in 2009 on the set of the movie “Adventureland”

Jesse Eisenberg advises on how a teenage star can manage the stress of being recognized. The actor advised him Finn Wolfhard from the TV series “Stranger Things” with the words that the director Greg Mottola had told him in 2009 on the set of the movie “Adventureland”.

“You do a job that exposes you emotionally and gives you a horrible celebrity. I’d be surprised if you weren’t stressed, and please don’t worry about it,” Mottola then told Jesse, according to GQ magazine. He even told him that “this is a two-dimensional medium and we don’t see what’s inside your head.” After this advice Eisenberg said, “It just changed my life because I was able to take my anxieties more seriously and realize that it’s okay to feel that way in the professional environment.”

When Wolfhard felt “really anxious and depressed” before taking the lead role in Eisenberg’s directorial debut “When You Finish Saving the World,” the writer-director shared advice with him. As Wolfhard said, Jesse said to him, “Have you met me? I’m the most nervous guy in the whole world’ and he thought he was upset and nervous because it was his first movie as an adult.

Wolfhard said he started having panic attacks when he was about 15 years old. She chose to “not talk about anything, because I was just doing this crazy career, so there was no time, or at least it felt like there wasn’t at the time,” while filming Stranger Things.

“Everybody was like, ‘Look at him, he’s fine. He’s living the best life,'” Finn said. “But I was actually growing up and things were happening in my brain and worries were building up and things that I didn’t realize I had to bury because of how I had to feel at work.”

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