Eric Andre gave up a real pain

There are many stories about the actors who almost He played a character who became wild for one reason or another. Michael Douglas almost played the famous researcher Christopher Columbus In the movie Ridley Scott. Val Kilmer almost played the leader of the resistance to Morpheus in the “matrix”. And now we have another interesting thing to add to the mix: Gonzo and Crankster comedian Eric Andre was offered the role that made the “continuity” actor Kalkin, winner of the Academy Award.

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In an interview with comedian Andrew Santina on his Podcast whiskey gingerAndre showed that the writer “Real pain” and director Jesse Eisenberg reached to offer him the role of Benjamin “bend” in his Holocaust buddy. Andre gave up on him, and Kalkin eventually played the role of free but broken heart, which uses the trip as a way to say goodbye to his beloved recently dead grandmother. “Real pain” would be a completely different movie from Andre as Bendzh, and Kalkin gave life to the audience. For Eric Andre … Not much.

Kulkin gave the marvelous, The nuanced performance as the sadness of Bendzh in “true pain”. While Andre is quite funny, his real dramatic chops still need to go through. His version of “true pain” would probably be wild, but if the proposal came, he just wasn’t interested. As Andre explained in the podcast:

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“Jesse Eisenberg calls me. Suggested me the role that Kiran Kulkin received” Oscar “. I liked that it seems really unhappy and not in my lane. I read the script. I like to go to Poland for six weeks and make a movie where we just chatting about the Holocaust, it seems like a bag,” I don’t think it’s all. Mother ***** won Oscar for the role I passed. ”

Andre continued to note that he was not offered roles very often, so the whole thing was some shock from top to bottom. He is also really not mistaken in the fact that the film is outside his alley, though it would certainly be interesting to see how he tries and fight such heavy material. He is ready to survive a lot of misery and torture his guests His mad -adult current is “Eric Andre’s show”, But it seems that the six -week Holocaust/Shooting Tour in Poland was just too much misery for him.

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