Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Reckoning,' a follow-up to 2010's 'The Social Network.' Here's everything we know.

When Sorkin took connected "The Social Reckoning," 1 of the first group he sent the book to was Jesse Eisenberg, whose capacity arsenic Mark Zuckerberg successful "The Social Network" earned him an Oscar nomination.

"I felt for illustration it belonged to him, and he was surely battle-tested," Sorkin told Vanity Fair astir hoping Eisenberg would reprise the role.

Sorkin told the mag he spent 3 days trying to person Eisenberg, but ultimately, the character declined.

"He simply did not want to beryllium conflated pinch Mark Zuckerberg anymore, that he has his problems pinch the guy," Sorkin told Vanity Fair. "He doesn't for illustration kids coming up to him successful airports pinch business cards that opportunity 'I'm CEO, bitch' for him to sign."

Eisenberg told the BBC successful February 2025 that he nary longer wanted to beryllium "associated pinch personification for illustration that," referring to Zuckerberg.

This opened the doorway for Jeremy Strong to return connected the role.

Strong has a way grounds of taking connected challenging roles. He crafted the analyzable nepo babe Kendall Roy from "Succession" into 1 of the astir memorable characters successful modern television. He's since wowed audiences pinch his performances arsenic Donald Trump's cutthroat lawyer, Roy Cohn, successful "The Apprentice," and Bruce Springsteen's loyal producer, Jon Landau, successful "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere."

Playing an big Zuckerberg will beryllium his biggest translator yet.

Since founding Facebook, Zuckerberg rebranded it arsenic Meta successful 2021, focusing connected virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.

Soon aft Haugen testified astatine the Senate hearing, Zuckerberg announced connected an net call that Meta was hiring 40,000 group to activity successful information and information because, he said, "we attraction astir getting this right." Facebook has agelong said it endorses establishing rules for online platforms.

Strong's Method acting preparation to play characters has risen to Daniel Day-Lewis levels of mythology, and that won't alteration pinch "Reckoning."

In an August 2026 GQ profile, Strong, who said successful a Polish accent for astir of the question and reply arsenic he was besides prepping for different movie astatine the time, revealed that his extremity was to play the existent Zuckerberg, not transcript Eisenberg's portrayal successful "The Social Network." To execute that, he said he listened to each podcast, publication each interview, and watched Zuckerberg speak astatine each tech acme the CEO has ever done. He moreover created a Facebook relationship truthful he could publication each of Zuckerberg's posts.

But Strong besides wanted to get crossed to Zuckerberg himself really committed he was to the role. So Strong reached retired to him.

"I sent him an email," Strong told GQ. "Just to opportunity that I return this work very seriously, and the veracity of it seriously, and I'm approaching it pinch respect."

Strong said Zuckerberg responded to him, but did not divulge what Zuck said.

Strong was besides dedicated to sounding for illustration Zuckerberg, talking successful his sound passim the accumulation of the movie, moreover erstwhile he was disconnected set.

"I've talked to Mark Zuckerberg galore times — I had a full relationship pinch Mark Zuckerberg, and Mark Zuckerberg has nary idea," Strong's friend, Bradley Cooper, told GQ of the actor's dedication.

This marks Madison's first domiciled since she won the champion character Oscar for "Anora."

The Facebook Files is based connected the thousands of pages of soul documents leaked by Haugen, who was a merchandise head astatine Facebook. Once Haugen's personality was revealed arsenic the whistleblower, she did a "60 Minutes" question and reply and testified astatine a Senate proceeding that Facebook knew it could beryllium harmful to young people.

White is champion known for playing Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto connected the deed bid "The Bear," which earned him 2 Emmy wins. White has portrayed a existent personification before: he played Bruce Springsteen successful the 2025 biopic, "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere."

Horwitz is simply a erstwhile exertion newsman astatine The Wall Street Journal who was down The Facebook Files.

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