Jesse Eisenberg, an actor who played Mark Zuckerberg, does not want me to associate him with the Meta CEO

The actor and director Jesse Eisenberg He said he does not want to be associated with the Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerbergwhom he played in the 2010 film The Social Networksaying that the actions of the billionaire are “problems.”

“I have not been following the trajectory of his life (Zuckerberg’s), partly because I don’t want to think of myself as associated with someone like that. It is not as if he had played a great golfer or something, and now people think I am a great golfist”Eisenberg told the BBC on Tuesday.

“It’s like this guy who is doing problematic things, eliminating data verification,” he said. “Making people who are already threatened in this world feel even more threatened.”

Eisenberg, whose script for To Real Pain He is nominated for an Oscar this year, he referred to Zuckerberg’s decision to adjust the target content review policies on Facebook and Instagram, replacing fact verifiers with “community notes” generated by users.

Zuckerberg announced the changes just before the US president, Donald Trump, entered the Oval office for his second term. Trump and other Republicans have criticized Zuckerberg already a target for what they consider censorship of voices on the right.

Eisenberg stressed that he was “worried only as a person who reads a newspaper” and is married to someone who teaches justice to disabled, and not as an actor who once played Zuckerberg in a film.

“These people have billions of dollars, more money than any human being has ever accumulated and what are they doing with it?”he questioned.

“Oh, they do it to win the favor of someone who is preaching hateful things.”

Jesse Eisenberg revealed that he did not know Zuckerberg personally before interpreting him

Portraat Zuckerberg in The Social Network, which dramatized the Facebook Foundation, catapulted Eisenberg to world fame.

Now, the actor is reviewing his memories of that role while on the promotional press tour of A Real Pain, who wrote, directed and stars.

He said to the podcast “Awards Chatter” last month that he never met Zuckerberg before interpreting him, remembering that he was driving to meet the goal CEO when He received a call from one of the film’s producers telling him not to enter “for a variety of legal reasons”