There were times when Jeremy Strong emailed Aaron Sorkin as if he were Mark Zuckerberg himself.
So when Strong was questioned by The New YorkerDavid Remnick wonders if he cares about Zuckerberg’s reaction The social balance sheetStrong said yes; that’s why he contacted the founder of Facebook in the first place.
“I advocated for him a lot when we were making the movie, to my director,” Strong recalled of his interactions with writer/director Sorkin during an interview with the New Yorker Radio Hour on October 2. “I mean, I think I hope the film is a dialectic rather than a polemic, rather than there being some sort of general trend of like, it’s all Facebook’s fault, like all of this, everything. When we talk about the degradation of truth and the deterioration of civil discourse, our storytelling plays a very important role in that… That’s why I reached out to Mark, and what I felt while we were doing it was that I was defending him very much when we were making the film, with my director.
Released October 9 The social balance sheet dramatizes the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblowers Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz. When channeling Zuckerberg by contacting Sorkin, Strong explained that he would remove “Jeremy from there at that time, which I know sounds crazy, but it’s really not. It’s kind of a negative space.”
Strong also spoke about his penchant for intense method play. Remnick asked him to talk about the time he wanted Sorkin to spray him with real tear gas while filming The Trial of the Chicago 7. Strong, who played Jerry Rubin in the Netflix film that Sorkin also wrote and directed, explained that his request was not intended to put anyone in danger.
“I want to kind of demystify this a little bit because, you know, first of all, what you’re referring to is what happened in Grant Park between the Chicago police and the Yippies and everyone,” Strong told Remnick. “Everyone who was protesting the Vietnam War and the Democratic Convention. And, you know, if you look at Haskell Wexler’s incredible documentary media, cool, you’re right there and you’re feeling this sort of authoritarian police state and the incredible violence that was happening. So, I think what I want to do is capture what was at stake and what was happening and what these people were putting themselves through, what they were putting at stake. Now…I want to be very clear, not involve anyone else and wouldn’t have involved anyone else, it was, you know, for the purpose of a close-up and to have the physiological effects of what that would be.
The social balance sheet also stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Billy Magnussen and Betty Gilpin.
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