“I sent Aaron emails as Mark sometimes at night... it's about sort of negative space. You want to create room to enter into this other person's experience.”

The New Yorker Radio Hour · Jeremy Strong on Playing Mark Zuckerberg and Other Unpopular Characters

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sent emails to Aaron Sorkin pretending to be Mark Zuckerberg to argue for Zuckerberg's point of view during script development

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