{"id":379945,"date":"2026-10-06T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=379945"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:24:50","slug":"jesse-eisenberg-turned-down-appearing-in-the-sequel-to-the-social-network-its-director-thought-it-was-impossible-that-hed-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/jesse-eisenberg-turned-down-appearing-in-the-sequel-to-the-social-network-its-director-thought-it-was-impossible-that-hed-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Eisenberg turned down appearing in the sequel to \u2018The Social Network\u2019. Its director thought it was impossible that he\u2019d do that"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although by 2008 he had already become famous thanks to Zombieland, Jesse Eisenberg won audiences over with The Social Network, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Perhaps for that very reason Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the film and has now directed The Social Network Part II<\/a>, its sequel<\/strong>, was totally convinced that he\u2019d agree to come back without a moment\u2019s hesitation.<\/p>\n

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The role of Mark Zuckerberg, previously played by Eisenberg, has been taken up by Jeremy Strong<\/a>, but even if Sorkin is happy, it\u2019s hard not to see it as a failure. He had only written a couple of pages of the script when he ran into Eisenberg at a party and told him \u201cI\u2019m going to send you something in a couple of weeks\u201d<\/em>. However, after sending it to him, the screenwriter was left stunned: \u201cIt never occurred to me that he wouldn\u2019t want to do it\u201d<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

In fact, he even tried to rehearse every conversation with him so that he\u2019d end up saying yes: \u201cIt\u2019s the only time I\u2019ve ever written myself an outline. I don\u2019t do it for movies, but I did it for my conversations with Jesse. They were arguments for why he should do it, including \u2018We already know you\u2019re going to be great because you already did it once\u2019<\/strong> or \u2018Here are the big scenes you\u2019ll get to play in the movie.\u2019 And I handed it to him\u201d<\/em>. Although he was close to changing his mind, in the end he backed out at the last minute. Ooooh!<\/p>\n\n

Sadly, not even a good payday made him change his mind: \u201cI found out what the studio was offering him, but money doesn\u2019t motivate Jesse<\/strong>. It\u2019s exasperating. In fact, money actually kills his motivation. It\u2019s admirable. He\u2019s very concerned about his children growing up with too much money\u201d.<\/em> Fine, Jesse, if you want to get rid of a little, you know where we are. It\u2019ll be a pleasure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although by 2008 he had already become famous thanks to Zombieland, Jesse Eisenberg won audiences over with The Social Network, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Perhaps for that very reason Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the film and has now directed The Social Network Part II, its sequel, was totally convinced that he\u2019d agree to … Continue reading “Jesse Eisenberg turned down appearing in the sequel to \u2018The Social Network\u2019. Its director thought it was impossible that he\u2019d do that”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":379944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-379945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379946,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379945\/revisions\/379946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379945"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=379945"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=379945"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=379945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}