He’s the guy who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network – there you go, you do know who he is.

He actually has quite a few strings to his bow though, boasting an impressive CV aside from his Hollywood acting career. That includes a book of short stories, a few pieces for the New Yorker magazine and a play that is currently showing on London’s West End.

You’d think given his immense success that he would be comfortable in his own skin, but during an interview with the Daily Beast it becomes clear that just ain’t the case.

Some of that interview to get you started:

As he’s speaking, his fingers adjust buttons and tug at his jeans, his eyes dart around the room. Mostly they’re cast down and to his left, flicking up every now and again to catch your eye and make sure you’re following his stream of thoughts…

“We rehearse all day and then I go home and, you know, panic,” he said. “We did, let’s say, 80 shows in New York and the 80^th show was as nerve-wracking and difficult as the first show—in some ways even more because you thought, well the other shoe hasn’t dropped yet, so to speak, so it’s obviously going to happen here”…

So, is he happy?

“Well, that’s, like, a weird kind of momentary abstract idea,” he said, pulling at the sleeves of his plaid shirt. “But that’s not my goal. I mean, you know, I don’t know, that doesn’t seem like the goal. I mean, I don’t know. I don’t know… No, probably not, I guess”…

“I come from a family of kind of brooding thinkers, not swimmers… my parents are great parents and good people but the goal was not to be the happiest person; the goal was to be kind of productive and to think and to consider and to be empathetic to others and to try to make the world better in some small way, to give back. It was never to just be happy. I guess my family would view happiness as somehow hedonistic,” he said. “Yes, I don’t think we are able to make the distinction between hedonism and happiness like healthy people are allowed to make.”

[source:thedailybeast]

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