Jesse on Conan, May 22, 2013. (x)
“We filmed on Bourbon Street, and I think half the people were hired by the movie to act like they were crazy, and the other half of the people were crazy.”
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I understand why the people who work here are so angry. I guess it’s like working at a gas station, but instead of cars, they have to fill up people. And people eat slowly and talk about their stupid lives at the table and make each other laugh but when the people who serve the food come by, they stop laughing and talking and become quiet like they don’t want to let anyone else know about their great jokes. And if the people who bring the food talk about their lives, they’re not allowed to talk about how bad it is, only how good it is, like, “I’m doing great, how are you?” And if they say something truthful like, “I’m doing terrible, I’m a waiter here,” they will probably get fired and then they will be even worse. So it’s probably always a good idea to talk about things happily. But sometimes that’s impossible. That’s why I’m giving Sushi Nozawa 16 out of 2000 stars.
Interviewer: Plug the movie in, say, 30 seconds or less? [starts clock]
Jesse: Yeah, sure. Yeah, 30 seconds, that’s it? Yeah, of course, of course, yeah. Uh, okay, sure, yeah. Yeah, so, 30 Minutes or Less … it is a, uh, how much time do I have left? Some time. Okay, so good, so it’s kind of like a tragic musing on the futility of … Not the futility—this is not … how much time do I have left?
Interviewer: You’re burning the midnight oil here.
Jesse: Oh, okay, okay. Well, I’m Jewish so we have 8 nights usually for that. Um, but—oh wait, I’m getting away from the point. So, okay, so 30 Minutes, okay … No, I got it, so, okay, yeah, so, 30 Minutes or Less is really—it’s a comedy about these, um, [buzz]
Interviewer: Sounds great.
Jesse: Okay, thanks. Great.
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I find it insulting when people insist to a suicidal person that “they have so much to live for,” and that “they are stronger” than their suicidal impulse. As if the person in question isn’t entirely aware of those things, as if the chemical, neural imbalances or possibly external factors in them that are creating those feelings can easily be “overcome” if only they’re “strong” enough. Does that imply that they reason they’re suicidal in the first place is because they’re not strong? That they’re weak, in fact, for feeling the way that they do? It is not encouraging or helpful to say these things to a suicidal person, in my opinion. It smacks of shaming them; “oh, nothing’s really wrong, you’d be just fine if only you were strong enough. You should get on that.”
Suicidal people who are still suicidal and not dead have already proven their strength, as far as I’m concerned. And even those who commit suicide and “succeed” in the end can’t fairly be discounted as weak - everyone makes mistakes, sometimes deadly ones, and theirs wasn’t even their fault provided it was inspired by a mental illness. I’ve had plenty of people try to bring me back from the brink of a devastating depression by telling me that I’m so much stronger than it, and I can safely say that all I felt in those moments was shame, for not being strong enough to simply not feel that way. I’m not trying to speak for anyone else, but as far as I’m concerned, hearing that hurts more than it helps when you’re that low. So fuck you, I don’t need to hear that I’m stronger than my depression. I knew that already, it doesn’t change how I feel. You can’t sprinkle magic sparkle unicorn words over a chemical imbalance and make it go away. Don’t trivialize, invalidate, what I’m going through like that.
Joy Behar: Jesse, let me talk to you for a minute. You started acting when you were 7. I was reading the research that you left, you didn’t like school, you were not doing well in school and then you dropped out at a certain point and acting seemed to be an escape for you. Tell me about that.
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Trailer for Free Samples, starring Jess Weixler, Jason Ritter, and OSCAR NOMINEE JESSE EISENBERG
dklfjksdhf YES!