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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