![]() ![]() They’ve been married for 55 years or something like that? They met at 18. But that’s also what becomes their undoing, because the chasm between my character’s value system and hers is too wide.ĭANES My parents, too. ![]() I don’t think she would have left him had he not insisted on it.ĮISENBERG The thing that attracts you to the person is what’s different about them. And they did have similar values once upon a time. What do you think Rachel and Toby saw in each other in the first place?ĭANES They do, actually, really like each other. I was wearing clogs, which I don’t recommend. I was like, this isn’t fair.ĮISENBERG I thought iambic pentameter was appropriate!ĭANES But it did provide a lot of insight. Writing exercises, primarily, which was very annoying, because Jesse is an actual writer and an excellent one. And we had rehearsals, abbreviated but dense, which were really effective because of these exercises that Jon and Val offered us. We had a few dinners with Taffy and the cast, which were valuable. They just retreated further and further.ĭANES Not really. And they didn’t have the self-awareness or the self-possession or the guts to be honest with each other. They got swallowed by points on their continuum that were just too hard. Except that this is a doomed marriage.ĭANES In my actual relationship, when we were met with a certain level of stress that we were ill equipped to cope with, we had to develop techniques and strategies and skills to become a better functioning couple. My wife and I have had probably the same dynamic for the many, many years we’ve been together, the same arguments and the same joys. The alternative is not interesting or desirable. ![]() It’s a way to continue exploring who you are and where you are.ĮISENBERG It’s also an attractive prospect for me. I am attracted to it and fascinated by it and find it a very worthwhile pursuit. But I personally don’t have a better model. (The pilot was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, executive producers who are themselves married.)ĭANES I think the people in it barely understand, and it changes over time. The novel argues that “beyond your point of view lies an abyss with a bubbling cauldron of fire, and that just beyond that abyss lies your spouse’s point of view.” And so the show stages some scenes from Rachel’s point of view and some from Toby’s. But for about six months - despite having met only once more than a decade before, when Eisenberg was extremely high - they had to pretend to be married to each other in a show that shadows one union from early courtship to eventual implosion and beyond, tracing its breakdown with granular specificity and occasional double vision. Danes is married to the actor Hugh Dancy, Eisenberg to the educator Anna Strout. On a recent afternoon, Danes (“Homeland,” “The Essex Serpent”) and Eisenberg (“The Social Network,” “When You Finish Saving the World”) met in an office at FX’s Manhattan headquarters with a “Fleishman”-like view of mid-rises and water towers. (Brodesser-Akner, who wrote seven of the eight episodes, is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.) 17, with a new episode each Thursday for six more weeks. The first two episodes arrive on Hulu on Nov. Long married and recently separated, the Fleishmans - she’s a high-powered talent agent he’s a hepatologist - inhabit the upper echelons of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” FX’s limited series adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s 2019 novel, Danes, 43, and Eisenberg, 39, star as Rachel and Toby Fleishman. “For me, I’m just so happy to have a shoe on,” said Jesse Eisenberg, her work husband. There are moments when you’re like, ‘Actually, I would go in a different direction here.’” “But sometimes that shoe feels a little snug. “That’s one of the great gifts of it,” she said. Marriage, the actress Claire Danes insisted, means sacrificing certain freedoms.
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