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\n\tJesse 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
\n\tThe actor told 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 \n\tAsked 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 \t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n \n\tHe 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 \n\tEisenberg 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOf 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 \n\tEisenberg also said he\u2019s been a regular blood donor for several months.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 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","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 Asked why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[14445,17239,2423,1759,9751],"class_list":{"0":"post-32048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donating","9":"tag-eisenberg","10":"tag-jesse","11":"tag-kidney","12":"tag-stranger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n