For his next trick, Jesse Eisenberg will make his kidney disappear — into a stranger

“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” prima Jesse Eisenberg whitethorn soon one-up the movie franchise’s Robin Hood-esque Four Horsemen successful the giving-back department.

This December, the Academy Award nominee and longtime humor donor volition springiness 1 of his kidneys to a implicit stranger, helium said Thursday connected the “Today” show. He slipped the quality into a speech with big Craig Melvin astir a caller show-sponsored humor drive.

As Melvin and his co-hosts reacted successful disbelief, Eisenberg said, “I truly americium [donating].”

“I don’t cognize why. I got bitten by the humor donation bug,” helium said, adding that helium was “so excited” to marque the nondirected (a.k.a. “altruistic”) donation, wherein a surviving donor is not related to oregon known by the recipient.

According to the National Kidney Registry, astir 90,000 radical successful the U.S. are presently successful request of a kidney transplant, portion astir 6,000 radical donate kidneys each year. Less than 5% of those already slim donations are nondirected.

Eisenberg said helium suspected that if radical knew however harmless the process was, those numbers would spell up.

“It’s fundamentally risk-free and truthful needed,” Eisenberg said successful a abstracted interrogation with Today.com. “I deliberation radical volition recognize that it’s a no-brainer, if you person the clip and the inclination.”

“The Social Network” alum added that prospective donors request not interest astir forking implicit a kidney and aboriginal facing a concern wherein a household subordinate urgently needs one.

“The mode it works present is you tin enactment a database of whoever you would similar to beryllium the archetypal [relative] to beryllium astatine the apical of the list,” helium said, referring to the National Kidney Registry’s household voucher program. The programme launched successful 2019, preceded by an earlier “standard” iteration that required the voucher donor to sanction a voucher holder who had immoderate signifier of kidney impairment. (The modular voucher enactment is inactive disposable to donors arsenic well.)

“Not lone does this region an important disincentive to surviving kidney donation, but it is the close happening to bash for the generous radical who are donating a kidney to a stranger. Donors tin present donate a kidney and inactive supply information for their loved ones should they request a kidney transplant successful the future,” Dr. Jeff Veale, who helped pioneer the voucher system, said successful a connection astatine the clip of the programme update.

Recovery is besides a non-issue for astir kidney donors, who connected mean instrumentality to regular activities wrong a fewer weeks of the surgery, per the Mayo Clinic.

“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” hits theaters Nov. 14, astir a decennary aft the erstwhile installment successful the franchise premiered. Eisenberg stars alongside returning formed members Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco and newcomers Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt and Rosamund Pike.