“I am a slightly paranoid person in general, so I just assume it’s happening. “I grew up assuming that everybody was talking about me behind my back,” he says. “I don’t engage with the public and they don’t engage with me” The success he can handle, says Eisenberg, but being under a media spotlight indefinitely never gets easy. He even hosted Saturday Night Live and made a cameo on hit sitcom Modern Family. That’s in spite of an ascendant career that’s involved lead parts in late 2000s indie fare like Zombieland, an Oscar nomination for 2010 biopic The Social Network and parts in blockbusters like Justice League, in which he plays big baddie Lex Luthor. Rarely seen in public and with a digital anti-presence that would make most publicists cry themselves to sleep at night, Eisenberg has spent more than a decade trying to avoid notoriety. If it means I’m lesser-known, then that’s a trade-off I’m more than happy to make.” I have no desire to get approval from them and I have no interest in fighting with them,” he says. “I don’t understand the appeal of with strangers who seem to delight in criticising you. It’s not the bedroom of someone who cares what other people think of them. Shoes lie everywhere and clothes are strewn about the place. Less than a foot away, Eisenberg’s bed is unmade. He’s here to promote Vivarium, the newly prescient domestic confinement thriller that’s streaming online early due to COVID-19. “If I was on the Internet, I would say something on the first day and spend the other 364 days of the year apologising for the thing I said on the first day,” says The Social Network star, sat cross-legged on the very edge of an armchair in his hotel suite in Soho, London. “I don’t engage with the public and they don’t engage with me, which is perfect.” For an actor who made his name playing Mark Zuckerberg in a biopic about Facebook, Jesse Eisenberg is remarkably antisocial online.
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