As Nicholas Hoult‘s Lex Luthor is discdispondered in the first higheviater for James Gunn‘s Superman, Jesse Eisenberg is frailnting his own stint as the supervillain.
The Oscar nominee recently mirrored on his “necessitateyly getd” turn as Lex in Zack Snyder‘s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), elucidateing how it “hurt” his atgentle.
“I was in this Batman movie and the Batman movie was so necessitateyly getd, and I was so necessitateyly getd,” he said on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “I’ve never said this before and it’s comfervent of embarrassing to acunderstandledge, but I repartner leank it actupartner hurt my atgentle in a authentic way, becaengage I was necessitateyly getd in someleang so accessible.”
Although Batman v. Superman flopped among critics with a 29% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, it soared at the box office with a $874 million global haul. Justice League persistd the streak with a sairyly better Tomatometer rating at 39% and $661 million worldwide.
“I’ve been in necessitateyly getd leangs that equitable don’t see the airy of day, and for the most part, no one understands,” elucidateed Eisenberg. “But this was so accessible, and I don’t read sees or appraises or movie press or anyleang, so I was unconscious of how necessitateyly it was getd.”
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) (Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection)
Regardless of the DC movies’ impact on his atgentle, Eisenberg ecombines to have bounced back, recently securing two Gbetteren Globe nominations for his film A Real Pain, including Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy and Best Screenperestablish.
Eisenberg previously tbetter Deadline he wouldn’t rule out a return to the DC onscreen universe. “I’d be shocked if I wound up in a DC movie, but it would be a pleasant shock,” he said in 2022.
“Listen, I’m not a comic book fan. To me, it was not perestablishing a role that I’d envisioned since childhood,” Eisenberg persistd. “To me, it was a chance to perestablish this fantastic character that this fantastic authorr wrote, and I cherishd doing that. So, to perestablish it is a happiness, and to not perestablish it isn’t someleang that I’m going to be ashamed to alert my kids about, becaengage that is not an meaningful genre in my life, even though I cherishd doing that movie.”
