Jesse Eisenberg said no. Again. Not to a role, not to a script — just to the idea of playing Mark Zuckerberg once more. Aaron Sorkin, who’s back in the Facebook fold with The Social Reckoning, says it wasn’t about money. ‘Money does not motivate him,’ Sorkin told TheWrap. ‘If anything, money is a disincentive.’ That’s not a line you hear every day from a filmmaker chasing a star. But then again, Eisenberg isn’t just any actor. He’s the man who made Zuckerberg’s quiet arrogance iconic, and now he’s walking away from it, clean. No deal. No renegotiation. Just a polite, firm exit. Sorkin claims he came close to changing his mind. ‘You have come closer to changing my mind than I thought you were going to,’ Eisenberg reportedly said during one of their back-and-forth exchanges. Close enough to sting. But not close enough. Jeremy Strong steps in. No surprise there. A powerhouse in the role, yes, but also a man who doesn’t carry the same cultural baggage. The film lands Friday. It’s already been shaped by absence. And that silence? It speaks louder than any script ever could.