Jesse Eisenberg He is officially a Polish citizen.
The actor, writer and director was granted citizenship by President Andrig Doda at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday evening, a few days after his movie.Real painWin Kiran Kulkin Oscar for the best support actor.
“I am incredibly honored,” Eisenberg said in a speech at the ceremony. “This is an honor for life and something you were very interested in for two decades.”
Eisenberg drew from his private life in writing “real pain”, following two American cousins, played by Eisenberg and Colekin, who are making a trip to Poland to honor their late grandfather, one of the Holocaust survivors. The filming of the film in Poland Eisenberg has inspired an application for citizenship, and is available to those who have direct ancestors who were born in the country or lived there after 1920.
Eisenberg said: “While we were filming this film in Poland and I was walking in the streets and began to get more comfort in the country, it happened very clear to me, which is that my family lived in this place for a long time than we were living in New York,” Eisenberg said. “Of course, history ended in a tragic way, but in addition to the tragedy of history was also the tragedy that my family no longer feels anymore with Poland. This saddened me and assured me that I really wanted to try to re -call as much as possible.”
He concluded by saying: “I really hope that this night, this ceremony, and this amazing honor is the first step inside me, on behalf of my family, re -calling this beautiful country.”
Eisenberg revealed for the first time that he had Apply for Polish citizenship In May last year, tell the local publication Głos Wielkopolski that “he loves to create better relationships between Jews and the Polish people.”
He said, “For me, it is unfortunate that they are not great.” “I love to do it. My family from here, my wife’s family from here … Poland made me feel a real relationship with something greater historically.”
Watch Eisenberg’s full speech at the ceremony below.
