Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in the upcoming legal drama The Social Reckoning. Director Aaron Sorkin reveals how seriously Strong had approached the role when the cameras were not rolling.
Sorkin said that the actor had reached out to the Meta CEO via email without telling him beforehand. While he received a reply, the director was asked why Strong hadn’t kept him in the loop. “I don’t know. I’m not shocked that he didn’t,” Sorkin told The New York Times. “Jeremy does a lot of his own work. He does a tremendous amount of work before he shows up on your set.”
The filmmaker later added that Strong did not speak in his own voice or walk the way he normally does. Sorkin also openly told other actors in Strong’s scenes what to expect. “Guys, he’s not going to be hanging out with you at craft service. 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.”
What else do we know about The Social Reckoning with Jeremy Strong?
The Social Reckoning is the sequel to 2010’s The Social Network, directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. The 65-year-old returns to write and direct the new film, with Jeremy Strong replacing Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg in the original film.
“Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets,” reads the film’s official logline.
Other supporting roles include Bill Burr, Billy Magnussen, Wunmi Mosaku, and Betty Gilpin.
Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, The Social Reckoning hits theaters on October 9, 2026.