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Jeremy Strong emailed Mark Zuckerberg before playing him in film
Jeremy Strong has said he emailed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg before portraying him in the upcoming film The Social Reckoning. In an interview with People magazine, the 47-year-old actor said he wanted…
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Jeremy Strong has said he emailed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg before portraying him in the upcoming film The Social Reckoning. In an interview with People magazine, the 47-year-old actor said he wanted to assure Zuckerberg he was approaching the role with respect and seriousness. Zuckerberg replied to the email, but Strong did not disclose what the tech billionaire wrote.
The Social Reckoning is a companion piece to the 2009 film The Social Network, in which Jesse Eisenberg played Zuckerberg. The new film, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, follows Zuckerberg in the late 2010s as a Wall Street Journal reporter and a Facebook employee investigate the company's practices. It also stars Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison, and Bill Burr, and releases in theatres on October 9.
The Indian Opinion
The breathless framing of an actor emailing a CEO as a major scoop says more about our celebrity news cycle than the film. Strong's stated duty to defend a character's point of view is basic acting, not an endorsement of Facebook's conduct. The real test will be whether the movie, releasing in October, can honestly explore the platform's documented harms without soft-pedalling for access. Will audiences see a fair portrait or a sanitised one?
Source: hindustantimes.com
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