{"id":2129474,"date":"2025-11-01T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129474"},"modified":"2025-11-01T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:21:08","slug":"major-movie-star-to-donate-kidney-to-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/major-movie-star-to-donate-kidney-to-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Major movie star to donate 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 will be donating one of his kidneys to a stranger, the movie star announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eisenberg announced his intention to donate one of his kidneys on NBC\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g4fZjdWZG6M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Today;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Today<\/a>\u201d, where he was praised by co-host Craig Melvin for being a fan of blood drives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYeah that\u2019s true,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g4fZjdWZG6M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eisenberg said.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eisenberg said.<\/a> \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\">The actor, who is 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>\u201a\u201d said in a separate interview on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.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> it\u2019s a \u201cno brainer\u201d to donate his kidney.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_l9p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_l9p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_l9p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_159p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_159p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_159p56mhek5clubsnm6jbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s essentially risk-free and so needed,\u201d Eisenberg said. \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\">The 42-year-old is starring in \u201cNow You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t,\u201d the third film in the \u201cNow You See Me\u201d series. 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Eisenberg announced his intention to donate one of his kidneys on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d, where he was praised by co-host Craig Melvin for being a fan of blood drives. \u201cYeah that\u2019s true,\u201d Eisenberg said. \u201cI\u2019m actually donating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129475,"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":[31890,367780,404879,347627],"class_list":["post-2129474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-craig-melvin","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-kidneys","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Major-movie-star-to-donate-kidney-to-stranger.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129474","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=2129474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129476,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129474\/revisions\/2129476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}