Jesse Eisenberg Says Every Scene in 'The Debut' Is a First or Second Take

At the Middleburg Film Festival, filmmaker Jesse Eisenberg told the audience that every scene used in his latest film, 'The Debut' comes from his leads' first and second take. Julianne Moore, who stars in the film, joined him for the conversation. That's a statement about acting and editing at once: the performance kept is the one from the floor, not the one found after a dozen more attempts. Festival audiences only ever get the surviving take, which in this case is the early one.