Jeremy Strong's Mark Zuckerberg apparently had some defensive notes for Aaron Sorkin
Strong was clearly happy to sign on for The Social Reckoning—but "Mark Zuckerberg" wrote his director in-character emails with his own point of view.
Jeremy Strong in The Social Reckoning, Screenshot: YouTube
It’s become pretty clear, over the last few years, that Jeremy Strong does not enjoy his reputation as Hollywood’s most determinedly method Method Actor. That’s obvious in a new New Yorker interview Strong gave this week, where he reiterates that he felt so betrayed by his last New Yorker profile—a 2021 piece by Michael Schulman that cemented the idea that Strong himself was not in on the basic joke of Jeremy Strong—that he did what any normal person would do with those feelings, and starred in an Ibsen play to express his unhappiness. “The Ibsen play was a response to that Profile,” Strong notes in the new piece, “Because Ibsen had written Ghosts, which he felt was a deeply personal expression that was met with ridicule and scorn by people who he thought would meet it with understanding and approbation.” As one does!
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