VIDEO: Jesse Eisenberg Earns Mark Zuckerberg's Praise, Feels Terrible
The cold war between the principals behind Facebook and The Social Network had to thaw eventually, and so it's nice to hear how Jesse Eisenberg has finally heard from Mark Zuckerberg that he has no hard feelings about Eisenberg's performance as him in the film. In fact, according to Eisenberg's cousin -- who works with Zuckerberg at the social-media giant -- the boss liked what the movie got right and thought Eisenberg in particular was good. Which promptly made the actor feel "terrible." He tells the story better than I do; watch it after the jump.
It's nice to see success hasn't spoiled Eisenberg, who -- at a Los Angeles Times young-actors roundtable also featuring his Social Network co-star Andrew Garfield and Garfield's Never Let Me Go co-star Carey Mulligan -- is as self-deprecating and neurotically motormouthed as ever. I know it's a long Oscar season ahead, but: Maintain, Jesse, maintain.
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Just throwing it out to the universe: Amy Kaufman, will you go out with me? I have a subscription to the L.A. Times, and I always read the Calender section before Sports.
She's really nice! Good luck with that.
Jesse has been so much fun to watch during his Social Network interviews. I would so like to see him in a new movie right this second; I've already watched his movies on Netflix and the current one in the theaters 3x - which I'll continue to see once a week until it leaves the theaters. I love his performance in it that much! Cheers to seeing him up on the Oscar stage giving an acceptance speech for Best Actor: the combination of a good script, director and actor doesn't happen often enough and when it does it should be rewarded!
There was zero chance that Jesse wasn't going to hear from Mark on this one, and that it wouldn't go down exactly as it did. Makes you think that one of the things Jesse got right was that, ultimately, Mark's will shrink his own personal identity to go with how corporate magnifiance commands. Jesse seems human, decent, but a bit obliging -- hope he doesn't keep that last part up.
Who cares how he feels about Eisenberg, what I want to know is if Zuckerberg is constantly playing that Reznor score like I've been.
Best score in years.