Director Aaron Sorkin told The New York Times in the latest edition of The Interview that his “Social Reckoning” star Jeremy Strong, a known method actor, was treating his co-stars “the way he imagines” Mark Zuckerberg would treat them during filming. Strong, of course, plays the Meta CEO in “The Social Network” follow-up. He does a tremendous amount of work before he shows up on your set,” Sorkin said.
He’s not going to be yucking it up with you between takes. He’s probably not going to speak to you at all. He is going to treat you the way he imagines Mark treats the people around him.’ And that’s what happened.
You cannot argue with the results.” Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison. Bill Burr, Betty Gilpin and Billy Magnussen star alongside Strong in “The Social Reckoning,” which follows whistleblower Frances Haugen, who teams up with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz to expose the sinister inner workings of Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Despite turbulence with the rollout of other tech dramas like the OpenAI expose “Artificial,” Sorkin explained there has been no such trouble with “The Social Reckoning.” He said that reps for Meta reached out asking for tickets to see the film.
Send us some tickets for opening night,’” Sorkin said. With this movie, they hired an outside law firm just to handle the legal vet to make sure that every single thing that is presented as a fact is a fact.” “The Social Reckoning” hits theaters on Oct. 9.
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