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For his next trick, actor Jesse Eisenberg will be donating a kidney to a complete stranger.<\/p>\n
The \u201cNow You See Me\u201d star\u00a0revealed recently on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d\u00a0he is \u201cdoing an altruistic donation\u201d in mid-December and is \u201cso excited to do it,\u201d suggesting it was an easy decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s essentially risk-free and so needed,\u201d he said, noting he made the decision after starting to donate blood. \u201cI think people will realize that it\u2019s a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later in the conversation, the 42-year-old celebrity explained more about how the process works.<\/p>\n
\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,\u201d he said. \u201cThat 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
The idea to donate a kidney first came to Eisenberg, a non-religious, secular Jew, about a decade ago, but his attempts to turn it into a reality went unanswered.<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n During a recent conversation with a friend who is a medical doctor, Eisenberg brought it up again. This time, the idea got off the ground; she recommended the actor contact NYU Langone Health in New York City.<\/p>\n \u201cI was in the hospital the next day and went through a battery of tests,\u201d said Eisenberg.<\/p>\n When asked why he was so eager to donate not only his blood but also an organ, \u201cThe Social Network\u201d star said he doesn\u2019t know what motivates him, but that he \u201creally\u201d likes doing it.<\/p>\n Please sign up for\u00a0Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For his next trick, actor Jesse Eisenberg will be donating a kidney to a complete stranger. The \u201cNow You See Me\u201d star\u00a0revealed recently on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d\u00a0he is \u201cdoing an altruistic donation\u201d in mid-December and is \u201cso excited to do it,\u201d suggesting it was an easy decision. \u201cIt\u2019s essentially risk-free and so needed,\u201d he said, noting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1222,415,1223,1226,1221,1224,1225],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-celebrity","tag-complete","tag-donating","tag-excited","tag-hollywood","tag-kidney","tag-stranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}