'Black Mirror' Actor Paul Giamatti Discloses Secret Instagram Account

Los Angeles, April 1 (NationPress) Hollywood actor Paul Giamatti has revealed that he does engage with social media, albeit with caution.

The actor disclosed that he possesses a secret Instagram account, but he is resistant to joining TikTok, labeling it as "terrifying," according to 'Female First UK'.

The 'Holdovers' star, aged 57, confessed that he experiments with social media and has created an account on the photo-sharing platform, opting for a pseudonym to maintain his privacy.

He mentioned to Radio Times magazine, "I am on Instagram, although only my friends know it’s me."

According to 'Female First UK', Paul declines to participate in TikTok as he finds the idea of its endless loop to be "strange and troubling."

He shared, "My girlfriend is heavily into TikTok, but I don’t want to engage in that. That endless scroll and loop is terrifying. The second you’re confronted with algorithms and nudges, you feel coerced. It’s strange and troubling."

The actor's upcoming significant project is a starring role in the new season of the Netflix series 'Black Mirror', alongside prominent names such as Peter Capaldi, Rashida Jones, and Chris O’Dowd.

Paul's episode is called 'Eulogy', and the synopsis states, "An isolated man is introduced to a groundbreaking system that allows its users to literally step inside old photographs, stirring powerful emotions in the process."

However, Paul confessed during the interview that he does not embrace nostalgia and has not preserved many pictures or mementos from his past. He is beginning to regret discarding so much over the years.

He remarked, "I’m not a big nostalgia guy and I don’t have a ton of photos. I regret that now. I wish I had kept a lot of things, photographs, but also letters, school papers, tests, reports. I never kept anything. I was always just thinking, 'What’s next?'"

'Black Mirror' will return on April 10 with six new episodes.

Creator Charlie Brooker stated in a Netflix release, "It’s back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories, there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it."

The new series will also include a sequel to a previous episode. Brooker added, "Fans of the show will recognize the cast of a certain spaceship from one of our episodes reappearing. We’ve done a sequel for the first time in Black Mirror history. Normally, I kill off all the characters at the end of an episode, but I kept some of ’em alive. I’m growing as a human."