Jesse Eisenberg says he turned down Zuckerberg role in The Social Reckoning

Mixed · 2Jesse Eisenberg told Deadline on Tuesday 13 October that he has not yet seen The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network, though he has "a thousand million thoughts about the movie". 1 2 Mixed · 2Eisenberg played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 original but passed on the sequel, in which Jeremy Strong plays the role. 1 2 Mixed · 2He said he loves the script and Sorkin, but did not want to be associated with "that guy" again or spend a year on press discussing something he knows nothing about, as he is not a user of the platform and is not interested in that kind of technology. 1 2

Centre · 1Asked about leaving the tech world behind, Eisenberg said he was never in it, adding that he looks like someone who spends the day in front of a computer or television but does not. 1 Centre · 1Earlier this month Sorkin told Entertainment Weekly he had assumed Eisenberg would return, saying it never occurred to him that he wouldn't want to do it, and that money does not motivate the actor; Sorkin told Vanity Fair in June that he spent a three-day weekend trying to persuade him. 1 Mixed · 2The Social Reckoning, released by Sony Pictures on 9 October, also stars Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz; The A.V. Club describes it as tanking at the box office, a claim Deadline does not make. 1 2

Mixed · 2Eisenberg was speaking about his new film The Debut, which he wrote, directed and stars in, with Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti; it premiered at Telluride on 9 September and A24 releases it on 11 December. 1 2