{"id":507330,"date":"2026-06-23T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507330\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:09:13","slug":"the-debut-movie-trailer-julianne-moore-leads-jesse-eisenberg-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/507330\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Debut’ Movie Trailer: Julianne Moore Leads Jesse Eisenberg Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Eisenberg<\/a> is back behind the camera for his third directing outing after \u201cA Real Pain<\/a>\u201d and \u201cWhen You Finish Saving the World,\u201d \u201cThe Debut<\/a>.\u201d The A24 film<\/a> stars Julianne Moore<\/a> as a shy, nervous woman who\u2019s unexpectedly cast in a local community theater production, only to fall under the sway (and, based on this trailer, mental tyranny) of an enigmatic and strong-tempered director, played by Paul Giamatti. Watch the film\u2019s first trailer below.<\/p>\n

The film also stars Halle Bailey, Cara Buono, Craig Bierko, Eldar Isgandarov, Eisenberg himself, and \u2014 fitting for a movie about stage shows \u2014 Bernadette Peters. It\u2019s produced by Fruit Tree\u2019s Emma Stone, Dave McCary, and Ali Herting, alongside Eisenberg.<\/p>\n

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As the trailer tells us, the pleasantly diffident Mona (Moore) is thrown way out of orbit following an audition for a musical show. \u201cI haven\u2019t sung in front of anyone since church choir.\u201d So she\u2019s clearly out of practice, too. Jerry (Giamatti) is \u201cbasically the biggest name in New Jersey community theater; he\u2019s brilliant, but not here to be your friend.\u201d A pas de deux appears to ensue between Mona and Jerry, who is pushing her aggressively toward a more brilliant performance while her life spirals out of control.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI write all sorts of things. Most are unpublished, unproduced, like most people, maybe,\u201d Eisenberg told me during an IndieWire interview circa<\/a> \u201cA Real Pain.\u201d He continued, \u201cI have a higher batting average as an actor, so I have an agent and everything, so it gives me a little bit of a shortcut, but everything informs something else. I wrote a musical 15 years ago, and it never got produced, and the next movie I\u2019m making takes place in the world of community theater [working off his Susan Sarandon-starring play \u2018Happy Talk\u2019], and I\u2019m able to repurpose music that I wrote. [When] you\u2019re desperate to produce something, you figure out whatever it is that you have in you that you could take advantage of in terms of previous things that actually informed this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Set amid a Holocaust heritage tour, Eisenberg\u2019s 2024 buddy comedy \u201cA Real Pain\u201d earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay. Kieran Culkin won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 2025 \u2014 more than a year after the movie first premiered at Sundance, where it was acquired by Searchlight Pictures for $10 million. \u201cThe Debut\u201d marks Eisenberg\u2019s second collaboration with A24 after \u201cWhen You Finish Saving the World,\u201d which also starred Julianne Moore.<\/p>\n

A24 has yet to set a release date for \u201cThe Debut,\u201d but you should surely look out for the film this fall and during the season\u2019s festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Eisenberg is back behind the camera for his third directing outing after \u201cA Real Pain\u201d and \u201cWhen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,878,85,46,70071,27652,397,233154,29582],"class_list":["post-507330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-julianne-moore","tag-movies","tag-the-debut","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}