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“It changed my life… I had this revelation, juxtaposing my own privilege and the lucky life I had, compared to what she had gone through.” In this episode, Jesse Eisenberg talks about how a trip to visit family in Poland made him realize how removed he had been from the experience of the Holocaust, and how that sense of guilt inspired him to write The Revisionist, his play about a cousin who’d survived the the Holocaust. To create the right sense of place, Jesse used Polish expatriate composer Frédéric Chopin’s pyrotechnic Etude Opus 10, No. 1 as part of the production. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to receive a new episode every day or delve deeper into our companion playlist. Jesse Eisenberg is an actor and playwright.
Did you like the track Jesse chose? Listen to the music in full: Etude Opus 10, No. 1 by Frederic Chopin