Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. In twenty ten, when the film The Social Network came out. Facebook itself was only six years old. YouTube and Twitter they were even younger. Social media was remaking the internet as we knew it.
And the whiz kid Mark Zuckerberg. who famously dropped out of Harvard to launch Facebook to the world when he was barely old enough to drink. He was hail as a genius. Sixteen years later, the world looks very different because of social media, and the pushback against Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms is obviously enormous. Mark Zuckerberg in some quarters looks like public enemy number one.
The 2010 film was written by Aaron Sorkin, and Sorkin brings us back to Zuckerberg's story now in a sequel. The social reckoning. I am here to help Facebook, not hurt it, okay? You send me a message. Who would you like to talk about? That film is set around twenty twenty one as Facebook was dealing with leaks from a whistleblower
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