Jeremy Strong is opening up about his upcoming role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network sequel.

Strong will play the tech billionaire in The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkins follow-up to the 2010 film that saw Jesse Eisenberg portraying Zuckerbergs creation of Facebook. The sequel, set for October 2026, centers on a young Facebook engineer named Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison) who teams up withWall Street Journalreporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) on a risky mission to bring attention to Facebooks biggest secrets. At the Academy Museum Gala on Saturday, the Succession star sporting a bright red suit and lighter hair that he said was for work told The Hollywood Reporter, Its one of the great scripts Ive ever read. It speaks to our time, it touches the third rail of everything happening in our world. Its a great character fascinating, complex and Im approaching it with great care and empathy and objectivity. Ive made two films with Aaron [with The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mollys Game] and third times the charm.

When asked if he had talked to Eisenberg who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the first film about taking over the Zuckerberg role, Strong said, No, I think that has nothing to do with what Im going to do.

The sequel is set 17 years after the events of The Social Network, with Strong who is currently on the awards circuit for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere portraying an older version of the CEO. Sorkin is directing as well as writing; he won an winning an Oscar for penning the first movie, which had David Fincher in the directors chair.