Mark Zuckerberg is now the proud owner of a t-shirt actually worn by Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network.”
On a recent episode of “The Colin & Samir Show,” Zuckerberg wore a t-shirt from Ardsley High School, a public high school that the Facebook founder briefly attended. Host Samir Chaudry quickly recognized the Ardsley Athletics logo from “The Social Network” and asked Zuckerberg if it was the garment from the film.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are wearing a shirt right now that Jesse Eisenberg wears in [‘The Social Network’] when [Andrew Garfield’s] Eduardo comes to the house in Palo Alto,” Chaudry said.
“Yeah, that’s true,” Zuckerberg replied. “One of my friends saw this online in an auction and was like, ‘You have to get this.’ So I was like, ‘Alright, yeah, sure, let’s get it.’”
Zuckerberg went on to explain that the t-shirt wasn’t just a replica but the one actually worn by Eisenberg in the 2010 drama, in which the Oscar nominee portrays a college-aged Zuckerberg.
“Yeah, this is his shirt. Well, it’s my shirt now. But it was his shirt,” he added.
The shirt, sold through online movie memorabilia auction house PropstoreAuctions, was valued at somewhere between $2,000 and $4,000. The winning bid for the item was $4,095.
Although Zuckerberg was happy to show off “The Social Network” t-shirt, Eisenberg recently said in an interview that he doesn’t “want to think of myself as associated” with the Meta CEO since playing him in the film.
“It’s not like I played a great golfer or something and now people think I’m a great golfer,” he said. “It’s like this guy that’s doing things that are problematic — taking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.”
