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Independent Spirit Awards 2025: Jesse Eisenberg brings Emma Stone to tears in gushing speech


The two movie stars acted together in the rollicking 2009 comedy Zombieland and have remained personal friends in the years since.

At this year's Spirit Awards, Jesse won best original screenplay for A Real Pain, which he also starred in alongside Succession alum Kieran Culkin. As he accepted his trophy onstage, he delivered a glowing speech thanking Emma for nurturing his career - leaving her sobbing incredulously in the audience A Real Pain stars Jesse (right) and Kieran Culkin (left) as two cousins whose lives have taken divergent paths but who find themselves together because of a family errand

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