United Kingdom, Nov. 12 -- Jesse Eisenberg's decision to donate a kidney stemmed from an experience filming Now You See Me.

The 42-year-old actor recently announced he will be having one of his organs removed for transplant next month and he's now explained how overcoming his fear of heights to shoot a scene as J. Daniel Atlas in the 2013 film led to him conquering a fear of needles by becoming a blood donor, and the natural "next step" was to help someone else with the altruistic donation.

Jesse explained to E! News: "There's a scene where the characters are on stage and we are in a harness, and we get pulled up to the top of the stage. So we essentially fly up to the top of the rafters.

"We were about to take a long break and I asked...