Mark Zuckerberg clicked save on this piece of clothes.
The Meta CEO, 40, revealed that he owns a T-shirt that Jesse Eisenberg wore within the 2010 drama primarily based on the story of Fb’s founding, “The Social Network.”
Throughout an look on “The Colin and Samir Show” podcast on March 27, Zuckerberg wore a blue T-shirt with the phrases “Ardsley Athletics” written throughout it.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are wearing a shirt right now that Jesse Eisenberg wears in the movie when Eduardo comes to the house in Palo Alto,” host Samir Chaudry requested the entrepreneur. “Is that right?”
“Yeah, that’s true,” Zuckerberg responded. “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.’”
“Wait, so that’s the exact shirt?” Chaudry requested.
“Yeah, this is his shirt. Well, it’s my shirt now. But it was his shirt.”
Chaudry then inquired, “Do you think he knows that, that you own the shirt now?” to which Zuckerberg replied, “Now he does.”
The enduring high was listed on PropstoreAuction, with the successful bid coming in between $2,000 and $4,000.
Eisenberg, 41, portrayed the Fb pioneer in “The Social Network,” alongside Andrew Garfield, who performed Fb co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
Justin Timberlake was additionally within the trio, taking over the position of Napster co-founder and Fb’s first president, Sean Parker.
Nonetheless, Eisenberg made it clear there’s no love misplaced between himself and Zuckerberg throughout a February interview with BBC Radio 4.
“I haven’t been following his life trajectory, partly because I don’t want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that,” the actor expressed. “It’s not like I played a great golfer or something and now I want people to think I’m a great golfer — it’s like this guy that is doing things that are problematic, taking away fact-checking and safety concerns. Making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened.”
Zuckerberg modified Meta’s content material overview insurance policies on each Fb and Instagram, so fact-checkers at the moment are changed with user-generated “community notes.” This alteration got here after Trump criticized Zuckerberg and Meta for what was seen as censorship prior to now.
The businessman additionally attended Trump’s inauguration in January, previous to his firm paying $25 million to settle Trump’s 2021 lawsuit over a suspension from its platforms.
“I don’t think, like, about, ‘Oh I played the guy in the movie.’ It’s just, I’m a human being and you read these things and these people have billions upon billions of dollars, more money than any human person has ever amassed,” Eisenberg added. “What are they doing with it? Oh, they’re doing it to curry favor with people who’s preaching hateful [things]?”
