Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Jeremy Strong Is Ignoring Jesse Eisenberg’s Portrayal of Mark Zuckerburg in The Social Network for His Starring Role in its Sequel

If you inherit a movie role for a sequel, that the prior actor got an Oscar nomination for...would you watch their performance or ignore it? One star just had to make that choice...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest outside of superhero movies
and really only Batman with the Joker role, is basically
unheard of that an actor inherits an Oscar nominated role
in the sequel of the movie, at least until now.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sisinne.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, that's the exact situation with the follow up to
The Social Network, the twenty ten movie about Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg that earned Jesse Eisenberg an Oscar not for
Best Actor, but in this movie, The Social Reckoning, Jeremy
Strong will portray zuck.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
That Oscar nomination has to add serious pressure.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Jeremy's up to the task. He's got the right attitude about.
Comparing his performance to Mars, Jeremy was saying he hasn't
talked to Jesse about the role, but doesn't plan to.
And Jesse's work, respectfully, has nothing to do with Howhill
approach it.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
So would you watch the first movie or would you
ignore it? Tanya?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I would ignore it. I would too. Going back to Jeremy,
he also said the script for The Social Reckoning is
literally one of the best he's ever read, touching on
everything going on in our world. Should be worth the wait.
Erect from Hollywood,