{"id":2126622,"date":"2025-10-31T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2126622"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:04:07","slug":"major-movie-star-announces-hes-donating-kidney-to-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/major-movie-star-announces-hes-donating-kidney-to-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Major movie star announces he\u2019s donating kidney to stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Actor Jesse Eisenberg, perhaps best-known for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1285016\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Social Network;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Social Network<\/a>,\u201d announced Thursday he is donating one of his kidneys to a complete stranger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What is spurring Eisenberg to make such a significant gesture?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s essentially risk-free and so needed,\u201d Eisenberg tells <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/today.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TODAY.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TODAY.com<\/a>. \u201cI think people will realize that it\u2019s a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He first revealed his intention to donate while appearing on \u201cToday\u201d on NBC. Host Craig Melvin was praising Zuckerberg for being a big supporter of blood drives, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/30\/entertainment\/jesse-eisenberg-kidney-donation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNN reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">celebrity.land reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYeah that\u2019s true,\u201d Eisenberg said. \u201cI\u2019m actually donating my kidney in six weeks. I really am. &#8230; I\u2019m so excited to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eisenberg, 42, is starring in \u201cNow You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t,\u201d the third film in the \u201cNow You See Me\u201d series, which is scheduled for release on Nov. 14. The film also stars Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman and Mark Ruffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other hit films in which Eisenberg has starred include \u201cZombieland,\u201d \u201cBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,\u201d and \u201cThe Village.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/nation\/2025\/10\/major-movie-star-announces-hes-donating-kidney-to-stranger.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cleveland.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jesse Eisenberg, perhaps best-known for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d announced Thursday he is donating one of his kidneys to a complete stranger. What is spurring Eisenberg to make such a significant gesture? \u201cIt\u2019s essentially risk-free and so needed,\u201d Eisenberg tells TODAY.com. \u201cI think people will realize that it\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2126623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[31890,367780,347627,380669],"class_list":["post-2126622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-craig-melvin","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-the-social-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Major-movie-star-announces-hes-donating-kidney-to-stranger.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126624,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126622\/revisions\/2126624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}