Jesse Eisenberg gives his thoughts on "Social Accounting" and why Zuckerberg's role

Jesse Eisenberg hasn't seen The Social Reckoning yet, but he has some thoughts on it, he told Deadline on Tuesday. In an interview about his new film The Debut, which he wrote, directed and also stars in, Eisenberg opened up about his feelings about Aaron Sorkin's social media following.

Jesse Eisenberg hasn't seen The Social Reckoning yet, but he has some thoughts on it, he told Deadline on Tuesday.

In an interview about his new film The Debut, which he wrote, directed and also stars in, Eisenberg opened up about his feelings about following up on Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network, in which Eisenberg originally played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2010 — a role he reprized for The Social Reckoning.

Eisenberg told Deadline: "I haven't seen the movie yet. It just came out... I have a million thoughts about the movie." Watch Breaking News: 'The Social Account' Bombs With $5.5M Opening, 'Other Moms' Horror Rules Weekend - Box Office Update News, 'Resident Evil' Tops Global B.O. Again, best Zack Kerger with $320 million WW. "Other Mom" excellent 45 million dollars. Social audit is removed from the system

I love the script and I love Aaron Sorkin so much, and it was an honor to be in the first movie, if you could call it the first movie, and I just didn't want to go back with that guy and spend a year in the press talking about something I know nothing about, because I'm not on that platform as a user, and I don't want to be a technology representative as a user. But, no, I'm sure the movie is great."

Asked how he feels now that he's left that role, Eisenberg said, "Well, I've never been in the tech world, despite what you might think, looking at me from the sidelines, I'm not in the tech world...I think I look like someone who probably sits in front of a computer or a TV all day, but I'm not really."

Earlier this month, Sorkin told Entertainment Weekly that he thought Eisenberg would return for the sequel. Sorkin said he was "only a few pages into" writing The Social Reckoning when he bumped into the actor and said, "I'll send you something in a couple of weeks." And he smiled and nodded and I sent it to him. "It never occurred to me that he wouldn't want to do that."

Eisenberg turned down the role, despite Sorkin telling Vanity Fair in June that he spent a three-day weekend trying to convince Eisenberg to take the role.

"I knew what the studio was offering him to do, but the money doesn't motivate Jesse. It's infuriating. If anything, the money is holding him back. It's admirable. He's very concerned about raising his kids with a lot of money," Sorkin told EW.

The Social Reckoning stars Strong alongside Mikey Madison as whistleblower Francis Hagen, a former Facebook engineer who leaked thousands of internal documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz, played by Jeremy Allen White. The film was released by Sony Pictures Entertainment on October 9.

Eisenberg's debut follows his 2024 film A Real Pain, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay, along with co-star Kieran Culkin, who won Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film.

In Julianne Moore's debut as a shy family woman who finds a powerful voice through community theater, she stars with Take No Prisoners Theater director Paul Giamatti. The film premiered in Telluride on September 9 and is set to be released on December 11 by A24.

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