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Jeremy Strong assured Mark Zuckerberg he would approach movie portrayal 'with respect’. The Succession actor plays the Facebook founder in Aaron Sorkin's upcoming movie ‘the Social Reckoning’, a follow-up to 2010's The Social Network, in which Jesse Eisenberg starred as Zuckerberg. Strong, who asked Sorkin to consider him for the role if Eisenberg didn't want to return, has now revealed to GQ that he reached out to the social media mogul and assured him he was taking his portrayal "very seriously”. ”I wrote to him - I'm probably going to give Sony an aneurysm - I sent him an email. Just to say that I take this responsibility very seriously, and the veracity of it seriously, and I'm approaching it with respect.” Strong confirmed that Zuckerberg wrote back but declined to share details about his response. He noted that if the businessman had invited him for a meeting, he probably wouldn't have accepted, as he prefers to research his subjects from an objective distance. The Apprentice star shared that he embarked on "the mother lode" of research, consuming everything he could about Zuckerberg and watching footage of him testifying before Congress "until (his) eyes fell out of (his) head” He also signed up for a Facebook account for the first time to read through all of Zuckerberg's posts from the beginning.
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