“Shocking and Devastating”: Jennifer Grey on 'A Real Pain'

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Speaking from the BFI London Film Festival’s Special Presentation for her new film ‘A Real Pain’ at the Southbank Centre, Jennifer Grey described working with Jesse Eisenberg as a director, and spoke about the tough experiences endured during the shoot in Poland.    Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in the new film alongside Kieran Culkin (‘Succession’), Will Sharpe (‘The White Lotus’) and Grey (‘Dirty Dancing’). Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Thanks so much for your time. Welcome back to London.

00:02Thank you so much.

00:04We're going to share you if that's okay.

00:06Could I ask how would you describe

00:08Jessie's technique as a director and also

00:10how does it change having your director in a

00:12scene with you?

00:14Jessie is

00:16so smart and

00:18so funny and so

00:20nervous and so

00:22prepared because he's

00:24nervous and so

00:26brilliant that it just made

00:28me feel safe at all times.

00:30I felt like his taste

00:32and his intelligence

00:34and his depth and his humanity

00:36I couldn't ask

00:38for anything better.

00:40What was the experience

00:42like filming in Poland

00:44and looking at the concentration camps?

00:46Well that's a very long answer

00:48but I would tell you

00:50if you've never been, it's something

00:52to be experienced because

00:54it is

00:56beyond anything you can put

00:58words to. The experience

01:00of it

01:02is shocking

01:04and devastating

01:06and the fact that

01:08I don't know

01:10that people are capable of that

01:12kind of cruelty

01:14and horrors ongoing

01:16it's pretty

01:18tough to imagine and here we

01:20are

01:22praying for peace again.

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