Is there just something about Jesse Eisenberg that makes him fun for women to tease?
[Laughs] Yes! Look at his sweet face! You can’t help it. The last time I talked to you was before Whip It came out, and you were already telling me about Holy Rollers and how it was a very different role for you. Is there something about this character that you’d never gotten to play onscreen before? You know, the year preceding Holy Rollers was very comedy-heavy, which I love — I love doing comedy. Still, I’d spent much of my life doing dramatic stuff as well, so I was really excited to get to do a more dramatic piece of work. Also, we all did a lot of work on the script for Holy Rollers together, which was a really exciting experience. Jesse and Justin [Bartha] had been involved with the project for a long time, and then I came on about a month before we started shooting, and I spent a lot of time in Kevin’s mom’s apartment with Justin and Jesse retooling some things and really defining who Rachel was. We wanted to be clear about her own questions of faith and her own journey in a wa
