There were times throughout when I really connected with Benji and his lack of social graces and inability to simply let things go, but for the most part, I thought David was the most relatable ...

Jesse Eisenberg plays characters who spend a lot of time grappling with anxiety. That includes his role as David in his latest movie, A Real Pain, which he also wrote and directed.

"I would call you the target audience, but you're like the target human being for the movie," Jesse Eisenberg laughs ... uptight-but-well-meaning David (Eisenberg) and freewheeling-yet-troubled ...