This paper aims to explore how Andrew Garfield’s star construction in mainstream Hollywood films articulates a specific masculine discourse of technology. Drawing upon the discussion of ‘masquerade’ in star studies and the theorization of technology and nerd identity in popular culture research, I analyze Garfield’s intertextual performance to argue for his star persona as a ‘quasi-nerd’ which shows slippages between normative and alternative masculinities and reconfiguration of hegemonic masculinity in the contemporary technological-oriented American society. Garfield’s performance in The Social Network and The Amazing Spider-Man combines to demonstrate that the manipulation of abstract technology, along with its fitness for late capitalism’s orientation to individualistic competition, is being incorporated in the normative masculinity in American culture. The study offers implications of the ways in which the male star construction in mainstream Hollywood films articulates more fluid and unstable masculinities around technology.