Fifteen years after playing Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” actor Jesse Eisenberg is sharing his honest views on what the Meta CEO is doing now.
Eisenberg talked on NPR’s “Fresh Air” show on Tuesday. He expressed his sadness about Zuckerberg’s choice to get rid of the fact-checking system on Meta’s platforms, like Facebook and Instagram.
As an actor, your role is to really get to know your character, even if they are a bad guy in the movie. “Your role is to protect your character, correct?” he said. “I thought a lot about this guy and how he felt like an outsider. He made this thing to connect with others because he found it hard to connect in usual social ways.”
Eisenberg thought Zuckerberg’s desire was impressive while making “The Social Network,” but now he feels that Zuckerberg’s strong drive has gone beyond his usual carefulness, which could be risky.
“Now that the platform is so strong and controls many things, I feel a bit sad.” Why are you choosing this path? He mentioned that he would no longer “justify or defend [Zuckerberg’s] actions.”
Released in 2010, “The Social Network” is based on Ben Mezrich’s book “The Accidental Billionaires.” It tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s journey from a Harvard student to the youngest self-made billionaire in the world after creating Facebook. The movie, featuring Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, was a big success both with critics and at the box office, winning three Oscars.
Zuckerberg didn’t help create “The Social Network” and later spoke out against it, but he seemed to get along with Eisenberg for a while. In 2011, he had a short appearance on an episode of “Saturday Night Live” that was hosted by the star.
Recently, Zuckerberg said he will stop fact-checking on Meta and end efforts to increase diversity in his companies. Many see this as a way to win over President Donald Trump. On Joe Rogan’s show earlier this month, he expressed sadness about the loss of “masculine energy” in companies.
It looks like their hard work has paid off. Zuckerberg sat in a special spot at Trump’s inauguration on Monday, next to other tech billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Meta gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund and held a party after he took office.
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Eisenberg is busy promoting “A Real Pain,” which got two Academy Award nominations on Thursday. The film, which he wrote and directed, is about Jewish American cousins David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) who go to Poland on a Holocaust-themed tour to remember their grandmother who has passed away.
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