Jesse Eisenberg is getting ready for a very selfless act!
The Oscar-nominated actor will be donating one of his kidneys to a stranger in December.
Jesse appeared on the Today show to promote Now You See Me: Now You Don’t on Thursday (October 30) and the hosts commended him for participating in a recent blood drive. That’s when he revealed he’s doing something even more special.
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“I’m actually donating my kidney in six weeks,” he said. “I really am.”
Jesse added, “I don’t know why. I got bitten by the blood donation bug. I’m doing an altruistic donation (in) mid-December. I’m so excited to do it.”
An altruistic donation is when someone donates to a donor that they don’t personally know.
“It’s essentially risk-free and so needed,” Jesse added in a Today.com interview. “I think people will realize that it’s a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination.”
“Let’s 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,” he said. “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.”
Jesse revealed that if you make an altruistic donation, you can put your family members on a priority list so that they are prioritized if they ever need a donation in the future.
Did you see that Jesse popped up in NYC to do magic on the streets?!
Source: justjared.com
