It’s been nearly 15 years since The Social Network hit theaters, but Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg’s bromance is just as strong as ever.
The former costars reunited on the red carpet at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 2. The pair were all smiles as they grabbed each other by the shoulder and waist while posing for photos together.
After rocking a dark brown suit for the Oscars ceremony, Garfield, 41, changed into a monochrome grey look for the afterparty, which was held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. While Garfield switched up his look, Eisenberg, also 41, stayed with the same classic black tux, white dress shirt and black tie he wore earlier in the night.
Eisenberg was nominated for Best Original Screenplay on Sunday for his 2024 film A Real Pain. His writing nod was one of the film’s two nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for his costar Kieran Culkin, who won. Garfield, meanwhile, presented an award with Goldie Hawn. (His rumored girlfriend, Monica Barbaro, was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Complete Unknown.)
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In the years before Facebook became little more than a lightning rod for criticism, the social media platform and its cofounder Mark Zuckerberg were the subject of the 2010 film The Social Network. Jesse Eisenberg starred as Zuckerberg in the movie, which was based on The Accidental Billionaires, a 2009 book by Ben Mezrich. The […]
Eisenberg and Garfield starred as Facebook cocreators Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, respectively, in The Social Network, which premiered in October 2010. The film, directed by David Fincher, documents how the pair’s friendship deteriorates as Facebook’s popularity grows, turning Zuckerberg into one of the youngest billionaires ever.
Eisenberg scored a Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination for his performance, while Fincher, 62, earned a nod for Best Director. The Social Network was nominated in a total of eight categories at the 2011 Academy Awards, taking home wins for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.
Eisenberg and Garfield formed a close friendship while playing the now-estranged besties on the big screen. “He’s pretty brilliant,” Eisenberg said of his costar in an interview with Hits Radio last month. “He would sometimes do something pretty unexpected and I would ask him about it after, and he would have a great rationale for it, and I took that with me. … I wish I had that knowledge earlier in my career.
Eisenberg continued, “He’s inventive and he also invests emotionally in a way that made me feel more comfortable investing emotionally. That was really helpful.”
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Jesse Eisenberg shocked his former Zombieland costar Emma Stone with a sweet shout-out during his Best Screenplay acceptance speech at the Independent Spirit Awards. On Saturday, February 22, Eisenberg, 41, took home the writing trophy for his film A Real Pain, which Stone, 36, produced alongside her husband, Dave McCary, under their Fruit Tree production […]
Garfield, for his part, gushed about Eisenberg’s performance in The Social Network during an October 2024 interview with GQ. “I don’t think Jesse plays [Mark Zuckerberg] as a sociopath. I think Jesse plays him as someone, actually, full of longing, someone full of insecurity, someone full of fallibility and ego,” he shared. “A young, egotistical guy who is driven by things that are self-serving, ultimately.”
The Social Network also stars Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara, Joseph Mazzello and Dakota Johnson.
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