The Social Network: Jesse Eisenberg had prohibited from meeting Mark Zuckerberg
The actor would have liked to speak to the Co-founder of Facebook, but the Sony bosses refused any approach.
Ideally, Jesse Eisenberg would have liked to meet Mark Zuckerberg Before playing Facebook’s co-founder in the 2010 film, The Social Networkby David Fincher. This is what he tells at Hollywood Reporter As the filmmaker’s fans approached the 15th anniversary of this film, as part of a discussion organized for the Podcast Awards chatting around the release of its new achievement, A Real Pain.
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Seeing the start of the shooting approaching and no meeting organized with the young boss he had to interpret by the producers, Jesse says he decided to simply go to Menlo Park, in Northern California, with his personal car. His idea? Enter Facebook offices directly and request a meeting with Zuckerberg.
“I was driving myself to meet him because I had been told: ‘No, we are not going to organize anything. ‘He recalls. I was literally in my car thinking that once in front of his office, I would be let in. The press had already announced that I was going to play it, so I just wanted to be in a room with him, to see what it does. It just seemed to be the bare minimum of research. How could you play in a film on a person who is still alive (without meeting her) ? “
Except that the producer of The Social Network had decided otherwise, and learning this initiative by Jesse Eisenberg, he called him directly on his cell phone to prohibit him from going to the end of his idea.
“I received a call from Scott Rudin telling me: ‘Not going,’ continues the actor. He told me that in the name of Sony’s lawyers, insisting: ‘You cannot do this for various legal reasons.’“”
Did the studio leaders feared a complaint from Mark Zuckerberg or his lawyers, knowing that the portrait made by Aaron Sorkin is not flattering in the film? Once The Social Network Released, he publicly expressed his disappointment in the face of the film, judging him “Quite hurtful”. Since then, his screenwriter warned that if he gave him one day a suiteit would be to go even further and further denounce the behavior of the co-founder of Facebook, whose corporate decisions would have largely participated in the re-election of Donald Trump:
“I blame Facebook for January 6 (The Capitole assault in 2021), he said last April. But you will have to buy a film ticket to find out why … Facebook A, among other things, adjusted his algorithm to promote the most controversial content possible. Because this is what will increase engagement and because that is what will bring you to what they call Facebook’s corridors, this infinite scrolling of content. It is supposed to be a constant tension in Facebook between growth and integrity, but this is not the case in reality. It’s just the growth that interests them. So if Mark Zuckerberg wakes up tomorrow and realizes that there is nothing that he can buy for $ 120 billion that he cannot buy for $ 119 billion, he could adjust his integrity and slow down the Facebook growth, even if it means winning a little less … “
Even without having encountered it, Eisenberg was noticed for his incarnation of the young controversial business boss, receiving an appointment to the Oscars for this role, in 2011. Rebelote this year, since he obtained elegant criticism for his writing, its realization and acting game in A Real Paina film on two cousins who travel together in Poland to visit Holocaust sites. If this time is not in the running in the best actor category, he is present for His original scriptAnd Kieran Culkin has every chance Among the actors in a supporting role-faced with his ex-game Successionby the way: Jeremy Strong is also there for The Apprentice.
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Also invited by the BBC Radio 4, Eisenberg added not to want “Think of himself as being associated with Mark Zuckerberg” ::
“It is not as if I had played a golf champion or something like that and that now people think that I am a big golfer. This guy has done problematic things – delete the verification of posts on meta, Reducing the security of its network, making people already threatened in this world even more threatened. “
A reaction to the January 7 announcement of Mark Zuckerberg: Meta will now replace its fact verification systems on Facebook and Instagram with a model of “Community notes” Similar to that of X, Elon Musk’s social network.
“I am worried like any person who reads a newspaper, adds Eisenberg. I don’t think: ‘Oh, I played this guy in the film, so …’ It’s just that I am a human being and when you read all these things on these people have billions and billions of dollars, more money than any human being has never amassed … do what? To attract the favors of someone who preaches hateful things. “
A Real Pain will be released on February 26 at the cinema. Here is his trailer:
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