As Aaron Sorkin logged back into Facebook to The social balance sheethis request for friendship with Jesse Eisenberg was refused.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The social network (2010) explained that “it never occurred to him” that Eisenberg would not want to reprise his portrayal of Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg in the sequel, which hits theaters October 9.
“I knew what the studio was offering him to do it, but money doesn’t motivate Jesse. It’s infuriating,” he said. Weekly Entertainment. “On the contrary, money is a hindrance for him. It’s admirable. He is very concerned about raising his children with too much money.”
Sorkin said he was only a few pages away from completing the script for The social balance sheet when he ran into the actor “and said, ‘I’m going to send you something in a few weeks.’ And he smiled and nodded, and I sent it to him. It never occurred to me that he wouldn’t want to do it.
Before finally casting Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg last September, Sorkin spent a three-day weekend trying to persuade Eisenberg to return.
Aaron Sorkin attends “The Social Reckoning” gala screening on September 29, 2026 in London, England.
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“It’s the only time I write an outline myself. I don’t do it for movies, but I did it for my conversations with Jesse,” he noted. “They were arguments for why he should do it. They included, ‘We already know you’re going to be great because you already were great once.’ You know, “Here are the big moments that you’re going to get to play in the movie. » And I exposed it for him.
Sorkin added: “He just doesn’t like being confused with Mark Zuckerberg anymore. He doesn’t like the fact that he looks a little bit like the guy physically; that role is probably what he’s best known for.”
After The social network (2010) chronicled Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook and the controversy that followed, Sorkin returned to write and direct the upcoming sequel, which focuses on a 2021 leaked document that exposed the damage Facebook caused to the company.
In The social balance sheetFacebook engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) goes to The Wall Street Journal journalist Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) with the social media platform’s best-kept secrets. Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Billy Magnussen and Betty Gilpin also star.
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