My Complex: "The Social Network" Actor Jesse Eisenberg Is At Odds With Himself

Photography By Jared Ryder

The only thing even half as big as social networking in 2010 is The Social Network, director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin's highly anticipated new movie about how Mark Zuckerberg and three other Harvard students founded Facebook in 2004 and developed it into a billion-dollar, life-altering empire. Jesse Eisenberg, who's best known for The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, and Zombieland, plays the entrepreneur who changed the way people communicate. A year ago, when Complex featured him in the October/November "My Complex" page, the soft-spoken 26-year-old stage and screen actor expressed uneasiness with being recognized, doing publicity, and talking about himself. As he's on the brink of really blowing up and having to wear shades and cap everywhere he goes, those thoughts resonate now more than ever. Keep reading for Jesse Eisenberg's inner contradictions...