It was kinda like doing a Facebook search and finding three results…
…but a whole lot funnier.
As soon as Jesse Eisenberg was announced as guest host on “Saturday Night Live” — where Adam Samberg does a pretty funny Mark Zuckerberg himself — folks started talking about how hilarious it would be if the real Facebook founder were to make an appearance on the show.
It was an almost impossible get. Zuckerberg has been pretty vocal about his opinion of “The Social Network” — both its perceived inaccuracies and his portrayal, which Eisenberg himself described as his “interpretation of a fictional character.”
Ah, the power of words.
Well, Lorne Michaels made the impossible possible, and the ‘three Zucks’ opened the show. It was funny… and awkward. And I’m sure a few people were pretty embarrassed.
Namely, “The Social Network” casting director.
When you see Andy Samberg and Mark Zuckerberg standing together, and hear them speak and see them smile…it’s kinda amazing.
They are as genetically similar as the dread Winklevi.
Andy might not have been nominated for an Oscar for the role like Eisenberg was, but I’ll bet Zuckerberg would have easily seen himself in the performance.
How could he not?
………..You wont find Jesse Eisenberg formidable as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network on Facebook. After a decade as the go-to guy for directors in need of a sweetly inept alter ego Roger Dodger The Squid and the Whale Adventureland hes suddenly at 27 playing a rather more formidable real-life character Mark Zuckerberg in s a fictionalised take on Facebooks birth and subsequent internal fallout. Cute casting then few could pull off Zuckerberg without making him seem frighteningly isolated or unreachably geeky.