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Jesse Eisenberg revealed that he\u2019s performing a pretty big act of selflessness act in a matter of weeks: The actor says he\u2019s donating one of his kidneys to a stranger.<\/p>\n
The actor told<\/a> NBC\u2019s Today<\/em> last week about his decision. \u201cI\u2019m actually donating my kidney in six weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cI really am.\u201d<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Asked why he decided to perform the charitable act, he replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know why. I got bitten by the blood donation bug. I\u2019m doing an altruistic donation [in] mid-December. I\u2019m so excited to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n He later told Today.com: \u201cIt\u2019s essentially risk-free and so needed. I think people will realize that it\u2019s a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination.\u201d<\/p>\n Eisenberg said he got the idea about 10 years ago but only recently was able to set the process in motion. He\u2019s scheduled to go through the procedure in mid-December.<\/p>\n Of the process for finding a match, he explained: \u201cLet\u2019s say person X needs a kidney in Kansas City [and] their child or whoever was going to donate to them is, for whatever set of reasons, not a match, but somehow I am. That person can still get my kidney and hopefully that child of that person still donates their kidney, right? But it goes to a bank where that person can find a match recipient, but it only works if there is basically an altruistic donor.\u201d<\/p>\n Eisenberg also said he\u2019s been a regular blood donor for several months.<\/p>\n The actor, who was nominated for best original screenplay at this year\u2019s Oscars for A Real Pain,<\/em> next appears in Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t, <\/em>the third film in the Now You See Me <\/em>franchise, which opens Nov. 14.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesse Eisenberg revealed that he\u2019s performing a pretty big act of selflessness act in a matter of weeks: The actor says he\u2019s donating one of his kidneys to a stranger. The actor told NBC\u2019s Today last week about his decision. \u201cI\u2019m actually donating my kidney in six weeks,\u201d he said. \u201cI really am.\u201d More from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2131629,"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":[405521,405522,34395,367780],"class_list":["post-2131628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-blood-donation","tag-charitable-act","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-jesse-eisenberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jesse-Eisenberg-Says-Hes-Donating-One-of-His-Kidneys-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131628","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=2131628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131630,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131628\/revisions\/2131630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2131629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}