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Mark Zuckerberg owns one of Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘Social Network’ shirts

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Like an ouroboros, Mark Zuckerberg now owns and proudly sports a piece of the film that helped launch him to infamy.

During a recent episode of The Colin & Samir Show, Zuckerberg appeared in a seemingly innocuous T-shirt bearing the logo of Ardsley Athletics, the New York high school the Meta founder briefly attended before transferring to the boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy. But host Samir Chaudry realized Zuckerberg’s fashion choice was a deliberate one.

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are wearing a shirt right now that Jesse Eisenberg wears in the movie when Eduardo [Andrew Garfield] comes to the house in Palo Alto,” Chaudry asked Zuckerberg, referring to The Social Network, the 2010 film which chronicles Zuckerberg’s origins as a prominent tech mogul.

“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.'” Eisenberg, who portrays Zuckerberg in the film, wears the shirt during a scene with Garfield, who portrays Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian billionaire and co-founder of the company known then as Facebook. When asked to confirm if “that’s the exact shirt,” Zuckerberg appeared glad to report, “Yeah, this is his shirt. Well, it’s my shirt now. But it was his shirt.” He also joked that if Eisenberg didn’t know the shirt listed on PropstoreAuction for $2000-$4000 now belongs to him, “he does now.”

Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg in ‘The Social Network’.

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The Social Network released in 2010, years before Zuckerberg began to face intense waves of scrutiny, both public and legal, over the manner in which he conducted business at Meta. The first major blow to Zuckerberg’s reputation as a scrappy go-getter who merely had a great idea for a harmless social media site came in 2015, with the first reporting on the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal.

David Fincher‘s critical and at times even antagonistic portrait of Zuckerberg in The Social Network, which may have seemed harsh at the time, now seems to many as prophetic.

Zuckerberg himself said that he “only saw it once,” and experience he described as “weird.” He elaborated, “They got all these very specific details of what I was wearing, or these specific things correct, but the whole narrative arc around my motivations and all this stuff were completely wrong It’s like, the whole arc is, like, I’m somehow motivated by trying to find a girlfriend. I was dating [Zuckerberg’s wife] Priscilla before i started Facebook.” Zuckerberg also took issue with the “unfortunate part of the internet,” wherein “people make up a lot of the founding mythology into what they want.”

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While Zuckerberg now playfully associates himself with the film, Eisenberg recently shared that he’d like more distance.

“When I think of myself as associated with somebody like that, it’s not like I played a great golfer and now people think I’m a great golfer,” the actor stated in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today program. “It’s this guy that’s doing things that are problematic.”

You can watch the rest of Zuckerberg’s interview on The Colin and Samir Show above.

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