Jesse Eisenberg has been awarded Polish citizenship by President Andrzej Duda in recognition of his work highlighting the story of Poland’s Jewish population during World War II in his Oscar-winning film “A Real Pain.”

The film, which he wrote, directed, and starred in, follows two American cousins who visit Poland to pay tribute to their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. The character was inspired by Eisenberg’s own great aunt.

“While we were filming this movie in Poland, and I was walking the streets and starting to get a little more comfortable in the country, something so obvious occurred to me, which is that my family had lived in this place for far longer than we lived in New York,” he told the citizenship ceremony, according to BBC.

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