Jesse Eisenberg had a pointed response on Friday when Invoice Maher requested him for his tackle highly effective “tech bros.”
The “Real Time” host famous that the actor famously portrayed Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg within the 2010 film “The Social Network.”
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“I see Zuckerberg now at the inauguration, and he’s right at the seat of power,” Maher stated.
The Meta CEO, together with fellow tech billionaires Jeff Bezos, Tim Prepare dinner and Elon Musk, loved outstanding placement at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, with higher seats than many elected officers.
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Maher additionally noticed that within the 2016 film “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” Eisenberg selected to “kind of” play supervillain Lex Luthor as a “tech bro.”
Surmising that Eisenberg “must have some feelings” on the subject, Maher requested, “What do you make of all that’s going on with the tech bros?”
Eisenberg, who wrote, directed and starred on this yr’s comedy-drama “A Real Pain,” responded with a query of his personal.
“I look at it from a very specific perspective, which is, just like, if you’re so rich and powerful, why are you not just spending your days doing good things for the world?”
He cited his spouse, Anna Strout, as an “amazing activist” whose dedication to serving to different folks has formed his perspective. Her mom based the Center Manner Home, a nonprofit for survivors of home violence, trafficking and sexual assault, and Strout and Eisenberg are volunteers and fundraisers.
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“And so when I watch these like incredibly powerful people, I just think like, wait, why are you not spending your day helping people?” Eisenberg requested. “Why are you like getting mired into this weird stuff ― stuff I don’t really understand ― and taking, you know, privacy concerns away, hurting people who are already hurting, marginalized people?”
He continued, “I can’t even understand that, so I’m not exactly thinking about them in politics. I’m just thinking, ‘Why are they not spending every day helping people?’”
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Eisenberg didn’t get extra particular than that in his dialog with Maher. Nevertheless, on Tuesday, he criticized Zuckerberg’s choice to ditch the fact-checking system on Fb and Instagram, each owned by Meta.
“Now that the platform is so powerful and owns all these other things, I guess I feel a little bit sad,” he instructed NPR’s Terry Gross. “Why is this the path you’re taking?”
