(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Jesse Eisenberg has joked he has a career in pizza delivery lined up just in case his acting offers dry up.

The American actor, who is best known for starring in 2010 drama The Social Network, is starring in upcoming action comedy 30 Minutes or Less, where he plays a pizza delivery boy.

The 27-year-old star says the role gave him all the skills required to pursue the job should his acting career falter.

"I spent a lot of time with a real pizza delivery guy so I know how to do that," he is quoted as saying.

"And I also did a lot of serving pizza. There's nothing I don't know about pizza. I have a second career all lined up in pizzas ready for a time when acting doesn't work out for me!"

The Ruben Fleischer-directed movie also stars Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, and Nick Swardson, and is loosely based on the Collar bomb case an unusual 2003 bank robbery where a pizza delivery man was killed as the bomb detonated when police approached him outside the bank.

The film is due for release later this year. (C) Cover Media