Jessie Eisenberg recalls going against studio advice and trying to meet Mark Zuckerberg while filming The Social Network: "I figured they would let me in"

Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg holding a Facebook business card during The Social Network, one of the best movies on HBO Max.

Not every actor gets the chance to meet the real person they are playing, but when Jessie Eisenberg was filming the 2010 Facebook drama The Social Network, he was told not to meet the website’s creator Mark Zuckerberg.

"I was driving up to meet him because I was told [by producers], 'No, we’re not going to [set up a meeting for you],'" said Eisenberg during an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. "I was going to just go to the office and I figured they would let me in... I just wanted to be in a room with him, just to see what the feeling is like."