Jesse Eisenberg wants ‘no association’ with Mark Zuckerberg – despite playing him in movie

Despite his critically acclaimed show arsenic Mark Zuckerberg successful The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg wants thing to bash with him.

The Now You See Me actor. 41, played the Facebook and Meta laminitis successful the 2010 biographical drama – but Jesse has stressed that helium wants thing to bash with the billionaire businessman, citing Facebook’s caller argumentation changes arsenic 1 of his reasons.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Jesse revealed that helium hasn’t been keeping up with Mark’s beingness ‘partly due to the fact that I don’t privation to deliberation of myself arsenic associated with idiosyncratic similar that.’

He added: ‘It’s not similar I played a large golfer oregon thing and present radical deliberation I’m a large golfer. It’s similar this feline that’s doing things that are problematic — taking distant fact-checking and information concerns, making radical who are already threatened successful this satellite much threatened.’

Meta announced past period that it’ll nary longer usage autarkic information checkers connected Facebook and Instagram, and volition beryllium replaced with assemblage notes usually recovered connected X.

This volition springiness users the quality to situation the accuracy of posts.

Jesse further explained that helium holds these beliefs ‘not arsenic a idiosyncratic who played [him] successful a movie,’ but ‘as conscionable idiosyncratic who is joined to a pistillate who teaches disablement justness successful New York, and lives for her students are going to get a small harder this year.’

Jesse, who his presently promoting his Oscar-nominated drama A Real Pain, antecedently opened up connected his stint successful DC’s  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ‘hurt his career.’

He played the evil mogul in the 2016 film alongside Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, and contempt an astonishing $873million at the container bureau – the movie didn’t beryllium good with critics.

Speaking astir the movie’s reception during an quality connected the Armchair Expert podcast, helium shared: ‘I was successful this Batman movie and the Batman movie was truthful poorly received, and I was truthful poorly received.

‘I’ve ne'er said this before, and it’s benignant of embarrassing to admit, but I genuinely deliberation it really wounded my vocation successful a existent way, due to the fact that I was poorly received successful thing truthful public.

‘I’ve been successful poorly received things that conscionable don’t spot the airy of day, and for the astir part, nary 1 knows.

‘But this was truthful public, and I don’t work notices oregon reviews oregon movie property oregon anything, truthful I was unaware of however poorly it was received.’

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