...we cautiously broach the subject of Oscar buzz and his own 2011 (best actor) nomination for The Social Network. Somewhat predictably, his response is typically self-effacing.
“It’s nice, but it’s odd because if you act a lot you feel particularly good about certain things and sometimes those things get no notice or in some cases get bad notices,” he concedes. “It seems kind of odd to get attention for one thing, I guess – to get so much attention for something. It feels a little like…” He stops himself abruptly and waits a brief moment before correcting himself.
“I should have just said, ‘good’.”©