Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain, When You Finish Saving the World, The Social Network) told the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) about social media and his thoughts on Facebook parent Meta Platforms chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday.
Asked about playing Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Eisenberg recalled: “He wasn’t very well-known at the time, so the movie seemed like such a strange thing to make because no one really knew who he was. … He wasn’t in the public [eye] a lot, so it was more just an interesting character.”
Things have changed since then. “I thought of it like an interesting character, and then he’s become famous, and now I don’t want to do the movie because they’re doing a new movie,” Eisenberg said. “But I don’t want to be associated with him anymore, because I don’t really like the comparison.”
Concluded the creative: “I see that the person who created this website is not a person who cares about people. If this guy is the creator of this world, I don’t want to live in that world.”
The actor, writer and director made the comments during a KVIFF Talk, a popular feature of the festival that allows fans and others to listen to big names discuss their work and careers.
