Jesse Eisenberg forced to overcome his anxiety to collect co-star Kieran Culkin’s FIFTH acting award for A Real Pain at the BAFTAs – after previous public appearances left him ‘shaking’
Notoriously private Jesse Eisenberg was forced to overcome his anxiety to collect A Real Pain co-star Kieran Culkin’s Best Supporting Actor BAFTA on Sunday.
Jesse, 41, who wrote, directed and starred in the movie and been open about his battle with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, took to the stage and revealed this would was the fifth award he’d accepted on Succession star Kieran’s behalf.
He joked: ‘Hi, thanks again. This is also the fifth award I’ve accepted on Kieran’s behalf. It confirms what I’ve thought which is that we share the same life but his is 50% better than mine’.
Jesse has previously collected Kieran’s gongs at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, National Society of Film Critics Award and National Board of Review Awards.
Last year when both actors attended the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Kieran, 42, revealed Jesse had been ‘shaking’ on the red carpet.
Telling E! News: ‘He’s just an anxious person. Just now, I had my arm around him and he was shaking ‘He said, “Everything, when I go outside, makes me nervous,”‘.
Notoriously private Jesse Eisenberg, 41, was forced to overcome his anxiety to collect A Real Pain co-star Kieran Culkin’s Best Supporting Actor BAFTA on Sunday
Jesse, (L) who wrote, directed and starred in the movie and been open about his battle with anxiety, took to the stage and revealed this would was the fifth award he accepted on Succession star Kieran’s behalf (pictured together in the movie)
Later in the evening Jesse also collected Best Original Screenplay gong and shared an emotional speech on the stage.
Picking up the movie’s second prize, he admitted: ‘I didn’t write anything because I didn’t think I’d win. I want to share this with my wife, who didn’t come because she didn’t think I’d win.’
Jessie welcomed son Banner with wife Anna Strout in 2017 and said becoming a father has helped his anxiety and revealed he was 11 when he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
Speaking at a 2019 Child Mind Institute event in New York he said:’To me, there’s nothing better for one’s mental health than to worry about things that are real, and when you have a child, you can only worry about something that’s real.’
‘I resist all of the temptations I have to make [my son] neurotic, because I know it’s not helpful. I know that what might feel good in the moment of consoling a kid who appears nervous may be detrimental in the long term.’
Jesse shared that: ‘I would probably tell myself two things. One is that it’s not the worst thing in the world to have those feelings, even though it might feel like the worst thing in the world. It might feel like this kind of horror is permanent and that almost anything else would be better than this feeling.’
He added: ‘But actually, having that anxiety might be indicative of other kind of, you know, beneficial, positive characteristics like sensitivity to the world or an empathy or maybe a kind of interesting or unusual perception of life that could benefit you over the long term.’
Meanwhile Conclave has picked up four gongs so far at the 2025 BAFTAs including the unbelievable Outstanding British Film Award.
He joked: ‘Hi, thanks again. This is also the fifth award I’ve accepted on Kieran’s behalf. It confirms what I’ve thought which is that we share the same life but his is 50% better than mine’
Later in the evening Jesse also collected Best Original Screenplay gong and shared an emotional speech on the stage
Jesse has previously collected Kieran’s gongs at the Golden Globes , Critics’ Choice Awards (pictured) National Society of Film Critics Award and National Board of Review Awards
Last year when both actors attended the film’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (pictured) Kieran, 42, revealed Jesse had been ‘shaking’ on the red carpet
Up against a huge list of 10 nominees, Conclave came up triumphs in the very unique category – adding to their previous three gongs for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Director.
Receiving the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film, director Edward Berger said: ‘It is a huge honour, outstanding British film, and I’m not even from here! I feel so welcome in your midst. We live in a time of crisis for democracy. Institutions that used to bring us together are used to pull us apart.
‘Sometimes it is hard to keep the faith in that situation, but that’s why we make movies and that’s why we made this movie.’
Tearful Zoe Saldana accepted Best Supporting Actress award with a expletive-laden speech for her Mexican movie Emilia Perez.
The award-winning actress, 46, was quickly pulled off camera for swearing as she shouted ‘f***, f***, f***’ when the countdown hurried her.
Zoe was in floods of tears as she accepted the award, admitting it is ‘so validating and a true honour’ to be honoured an award after being previously told by dialect coaches ‘that her British accent wasn’t going to work’.
Listing off her thank yous, Zoe said: ‘Oh my god I’m getting a countdown. F*** f*** f***!’
The Mexican movie, which has received mixed reviews despite its starring cast including Selena Gomez, is up for a staggering 11 nominations.
The biggest night in British film returned with actor David Tennant as host and an array of guest presenters on hand to deliver awards throughout the night.
