{"id":227676,"date":"2025-10-20T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227676\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T20:24:08","slug":"jeremy-strong-wont-talk-to-jesse-eisenberg-about-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227676\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Strong won\u2019t talk to Jesse Eisenberg about Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Strong is sort of becoming the guy we just expect to play real-life figures. Most recently was Roy Cohn in The Apprentice and soon we\u2019ll see him as Bruce Springsteen\u2019s manager Jon Landau in Deliver Me from Nowhere. And while some of Jeremy Strong\u2019s roles have been tackled by notable names before (Cohn was played by Al Pacino in Angels in America, Parkland\u2019s Lee Harvey Oswald by Gary Oldman in JFK), there\u2019s no more recognizable one than Mark Zuckerberg. But that\u2019s who he is taking on next for the follow-up to David Fincher\u2019s The Social Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg was first played by Jesse Eisenberg in the 2010 film, earning major acclaim and going on to earn his first Oscar nomination (and so far only in an acting category). But for Jeremy Strong, he will be focusing on his own approach, saying he hasn\u2019t even contacted Eisenberg about the Facebook founder. As he bluntly told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, \u201cI think that has nothing to do with what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s definitely a fair point, as the quasi-sequel, officially titled The Social Reckoning<\/a>, takes place quite a bit later and so Jeremy Strong would be a sort of Mark Zuckerberg 2.0 (and it will be plenty of fun to compare the performances). Here is the official plot of the movie: \u201cA companion piece to the hit film, The Social Network, Sorkin\u2019s original screenplay tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network\u2019s most guarded secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Jeremy Strong might not have much to say about Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, he does have a grasp on the character and has nothing but praise for writer Aaron Sorkin, having previously worked with him on Molly\u2019s Game and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (playing another real-life figure, counterculture icon Jerry Rubin). \u201cIt\u2019s one of the great scripts I\u2019ve ever read. It speaks to our time, it touches the third rail of everything happening in our world. It\u2019s a great character \u2014 fascinating, complex \u2014 and I\u2019m approaching it with great care and empathy and objectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Social Reckoning is currently slated for October 9th, 2026.<\/p>\n

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