Aaron Sorkin is revealing the rationale why Jesse Eisenberg declined to reprise his position as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning.
Throughout a current interview with Vanity Fair, Sorkin — who penned the 2010 Oscar-winning movie The Social Network and wrote and directed the upcoming sequel — shared that he spent three days making an attempt to persuade Eisenberg to return for the follow-up pic.
“I felt like it belonged to him, and he was certainly battle-tested,” he mentioned. The A Actual Ache actor-director earned an Oscar nomination for greatest lead actor for his portrayal of the Fb founder in The Social Community.
Nonetheless, the actor couldn’t be persuaded. “He simply did not want to be conflated with Mark Zuckerberg anymore, that he has his problems with the guy,” Sorkin defined. “He doesn’t like kids coming up to him in airports with business cards that say ‘I’m CEO, bitch’ for him to sign.”
Final 12 months, when requested why he wasn’t returning for the second movie, Eisenberg said on the Today show, “Listen, for reasons that have nothing to do with how amazing that movie will be, really, truthfully. But when you play a character, you feel, at some point, you’ve grown into something else.”
Jeremy Strong has since taken over the main position in The Social Reckoning, which simply released its first trailer.
VF reported that the filmmaker first talked about the sequel’s script to Eisenberg on the 2025 Vainness Honest Oscar Get together, which is the place he additionally bumped into Robust. It was in that second that The Apprentice actor pitched himself for the position of Zuckerberg if Eisenberg declined.
As soon as filming started, Sorkin mentioned the Succession actor “followed his lead. He showed up on his first day, and when he said ‘good morning’ to me, he was already talking like Mark.”
The Social Reckoning, additionally starring Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, Betty Gilpin and Patrick Fischler, hits theaters on Oct. 9.
