Jesse Eisenberg says he feels 'most comfortable' living in Indiana after leaving 'unstable' Hollywood

Jesse Eisenberg has nary regrets implicit his determination to permission Hollywood and clasp a quieter beingness successful Indiana.

During a caller interrogation with CBS News, the 41-year-old histrion explained wherefore helium joined the increasing database of celebrities who person moved retired of Tinseltown.

"I lived successful Indiana for the past decennary connected and off," the "Social Network" prima said. "That's wherever I consciousness benignant of astir comfortable. I'm not idiosyncratic who wants to situation myself successful an manufacture that conscionable feels benignant of unstable to me." 

Jesse Eisenberg revealed wherefore helium near Hollywood down for a beingness successful Indiana. (Astrida Valigorsky/Variety via Getty Images)

Eisenberg recalled that helium and his woman Anna Strout antecedently spent a batch of clip successful her hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, which helium described arsenic "one of the large American cities." The brace archetypal began dating successful 2002 but called it quits successful 2012. Eisenberg and Strout rekindled their romance successful 2015 and tied the knot 2 years later.

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"We've been going backmost determination for the past 20 years conscionable to visit," helium said of their trips to Bloomington. Eisenberg told CBS News that the mates initially moved to Indiana to attraction for his precocious mother-in-law, Toby Strout, aft she fell ill.

"Then we had a kid and past the pandemic hit," said Eisenberg, who shares lad Banner, 7,  with Strout. "So we coiled up being determination for respective years." 

While surviving successful Bloomington, Eisenberg and Strout worked arsenic volunteers astatine the home unit structure Middle Way House, wherever Toby had served arsenic an enforcement director.

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"During the pandemic, determination was nary acting work, obviously," Eisenberg said. "And truthful I was conscionable volunteering each time astatine the shelter."

The "Zombieland" actor, who launched his nonrecreational acting vocation astatine the property of 16, said that moving astatine the structure was "the happiest clip of my life." 

Eisenberg and his woman Anna Strout, who person been joined since 2017, moved to her hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. ( Jim Spellman/WireImage)

"I was coating walls and fixing garbage disposals and it was similar — it was the archetypal clip I had, like, a existent job," helium said. "It sounds unusual to accidental that, but astatine 38 years aged was the archetypal clip I had a existent job. And I conscionable loved it truthful much. I loved being capable to execute thing wherever determination was nary critique of it, you cognize what I mean?"

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He continued, "I could beryllium progressive and moving and helping and doing thing that's truly contributing nicely, but not successful a mode wherever I was receiving praise, which someway sometimes feels similar it negates the publication oregon receiving criticism, which hurts due to the fact that it's criticism. And truthful it's conscionable similar this astonishing feeling. I archer my woman each the time, it's the archetypal clip I felt similar if I ne'er got different acting part, I would beryllium OK successful this satellite due to the fact that I similar doing things." 

"I'm not idiosyncratic who wants to situation myself successful an manufacture that conscionable feels benignant of unstable to me." 

"It was benignant of similar revelatory for maine to person a existent occupation astatine that property and emotion it," helium said.

Eisenberg earned a champion screenplay information astatine the upcoming Academy Awards. (Rick Kern/WireImage)

Eisenberg is presently gearing up for the 2025 Academy Awards aft receiving a champion screenplay information for penning the publication of his movie "A Real Pain." The New York autochthonal besides directed the buddy-road drama play and co-starred alongside Kieran Culkin, who was nominated for champion supporting actor.

While speaking with CBS News, Eisenberg noted that his beingness successful Indiana besides affords him much clip to ore connected penning screenplays, alternatively than competing for acting gigs.

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"I similar to support arsenic galore feet extracurricular the doorway of the amusement manufacture arsenic possible, truthful I don't consciousness similar I'm idiosyncratic perpetually trying to lb the pavement and sound connected doors and get jobs," helium said. "I conscionable don't privation to beryllium that person. It doesn't acceptable me. So being successful Indiana from, like, a nonrecreational position was truly large due to the fact that it made maine consciousness like, you know, if I'm not moving now, that's fine."

"And I person this different beingness and I could constitute during the day," helium added. "And so, being successful Indiana allowed maine to have, like, an other ft extracurricular the doorway of the amusement manufacture that successful a mode that was truly comfortable."