Jesse Eisenberg gets Polish citizenship after directing A Real Pain

The star wrote and directed a film about two cousins who travel to Poland to honour their grandmother.

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Eisenberg wrote, directed and starred in the film, about two American cousins who travel to Poland to honour their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, who was based on Eisenberg's own great aunt.

He told the citizenship ceremony: "While we were filming this movie in Poland, and I was walking the streets and starting to get a little more comfortable in the country, something so obvious occurred to me, which is that my family had lived in this place for far longer than we lived in New York.

"And of course, the history ended so tragically."

He continued: "In addition to that tragedy of history is also the tragedy that my family didn't feel any connection any more to Poland, and that saddened me and confirmed for me that I really wanted to try to reconnect as much as possible.

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