'It's my shirt now': Mark Zuckerberg bought the shirt Jesse Eisenberg wore when playing him in 'The Social Network'
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- Mark Zuckerberg says he now owns a shirt Jesse Eisenberg wore in "The Social Network."
- "Yeah, this is his shirt," Zuckerberg said on The Colin and Samir Show. "Well, I guess this is my shirt now."
- Zuckerberg also shared his thoughts on the movie's accuracy on the podcast.
It's a classic Who Wore It Better moment. The contenders: Mark Zuckerberg, and Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg.
Appearing on an episode of the "The Colin and Samir Show" podcast, the Meta CEO (the real one) sported a shirt that actor Jesse Eisenberg wore while portraying Zuckerberg in "The Social Network," the 2010 biographical drama about Facebook.
"Yeah, this is his shirt," he said. "Well, I guess this is my shirt now."
Zuckerberg said he bought the shirt at an auction.
The blue T-shirt says Ardsley Athletics XXL on it. In the film, Eisenberg's Zuckerberg wears it when fellow cofounder Eduardo Saverin visits the house in Palo Alto where Facebook's early team lived in the summer of 2004 while building the site.
Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School in New York before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
He said on the podcast that he's seen "The Social Network" once.
Watching the movie was "weird," Zuckerberg said.
"They got all of these very specific details, of like what I was wearing, or like these specific things correct, but then the whole narrative arc around my motivations and all the stuff were completely wrong," he said.
He talked, for example, about FaceMash, a hot-or-not website he created while still an undergraduate at Harvard, where classmates ranked each others' attractiveness.
"It is true that I made a bunch of other websites and stuff when I was at Harvard, but people cast it as if like FaceMash, that prank thing that I made, was like the precursor to Facebook, I guess maybe because they have face in the name," he said. "It was completely separate from Facebook."
The site was a hit with students. After a few days, Harvard ordered it be taken down, citing copyright and security concerns. Zuckerberg faced disciplinary action from the university but was allowed to stay at the school.
He went on to start Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, though he famously later dropped out to build social media site full-time.
Twenty-one years after Facebook was founded in 2004, Zuckerberg says people still think he created it as a "service to rate the attractiveness of people."
"And it's like no, I was just a kid doing a random different thing," he said.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.