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"Jesse Eisenberg has suggested that his mysterious Now You See Me character Atlas was incredibly fun to play. The Oscar-nominated actor described bank-robbing magician Atlas as a man who has earned the right to be arrogant in a chat with Flicks and Bits.  &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a fun guy to play, it&amp;#039;s fun to play someone who thinks he&amp;#039;s the best at something,&amp;quot; Eisenberg explained. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a guy that at like 5 years old realized he didn&amp;#039;t have any friends and wasn&amp;#039;t good at making them so he stayed in his room 8 hours a day and worked on the same tricks. &amp;quot;Now 20 years later he&amp;#039;s the best sleight of hand magician in the world, and he still has the same social life. He&amp;#039;s really arrogant because he&amp;#039;s kind of earned it. He&amp;#039;s kind of developed an attitude of superiority because he thinks he&amp;#039;s the best, and he is.&amp;quot; He went on to explain: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s fun to play that because you get to live out the fantasy that you&amp;#039;re great at something, if you deny yourself that in your own life.&amp;quot; Eisenberg also discussed shooting Now You See Me&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;thrilling&amp;quot; stage show scenes in front of hundreds of extras. &amp;quot;We had been filming a lot of the more intimate scenes, and then we got to perform this first show in an arena,&amp;quot; he commented. &amp;quot;The show is supposed to take place in the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, and we&amp;#039;re performing for thousands of people.&amp;quot;   The actor continued: &amp;quot;After doing scenes where it&amp;#039;s just like two or three people talking, and frankly I&amp;#039;ve done a lot of movies where it&amp;#039;s just two or three people talking, it was really thrilling to perform for such a large group of people. I got to wear a microphone and really utter absurd kinds of phrases that were a part of the scene and heard by an arena.  &amp;quot;And when we were performing these big shows it always felt original and fresh. Even over the course of weeks shooting the same show it still felt interesting.&amp;quot; Eisenberg previously revealed that he studied magic briefly in preparation for the Louis Leterrier- directed caper movie. Now You See Me is now playing in the US and opens on July 3 in the UK. Watch a trailer for the movie below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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