Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way'
Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way'
During an interview on the 'Armchair Expert' podcast, the actor reflected on starring as the villain in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.'
Jesse Eisenberg discusses how he felt his role as Lex Luthor in 'Batman v Superman' negatively impacted his career while appearing on 'Armchair Expert.
He also wrapped filming on Now You See Me 3.
theres the real career killer. 2 was so awful, and youre going to make a 3rd??
24I hate being reminded that these movies exist. Wow, a film about fake magicians doing fake tricks with CGI, awesome.
At least make them real wizards, cowards.
19I also weirdly hate these movies without actually properly watching them myself. The execution is just so stupid. I like the idea of it, illusionists robbing stuff. I was expecting it to be like Ocean’s Eleven where it convinces me that their plan is actually feasible, but none of the tricks make any sense whatsoever.
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I feel like you have to just because everyone knows the second film in a series sucks, but the 3rd one can sometimes be better than the first. Like with Die Hard. First one is good, second one is shit, 3rd is arguably the best in the series.
0Like with Die Hard. First one is good, second one is shit, 3rd is arguably the best in the series.
That's quite an opinion.
2Same with back to the future, 1 was amazing, 3 is amazing, 2 was awful.
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Leonardo DiCaprio advice Timothy Chalemet was "No hard drugs and no superhero movies."
14And then he did Dune.
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I think he's a very good actor. This was a bad movie, and the part didn't suit him, and he played it bad. Only worst villan role was Paul Giamatti in Rock and Rolla making bugs bunny jokes. His roles need to stay within nerdy limits.
4Being one of the worst parts of an already horrible movie will do that.
It was a combo of not the right actor, the direction, and everything about it though. Especially the writers, director, and producers.102What a hyperbole, you clearly haven't seen horrible movies if you think BvS is one, especially the extended cut, you can disagree with it's direction but it's in no way a horrible movie, Suicide Squad is a horrible movie, Star Wars episode 9 is a horrible movie.
99% of Asylum stuff are horrible movies.
BvS is just a meh movie, but then for me, so is most of the MCU, watch one time, then forget about it.
Episode 9 and GoT season 8 (well season 5-8 in hindsight)makes me actively mad when thinking about them, those are horrible pieces of media
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Maybe if he didn't just copy Ledger's Joker and behaved anything like Lex Luthor he'd have been better received.
Hollywood needs to wake up and let Billy Zane play Lex Luthor like he was always meant to.
86Good observation. It made it clear that he’s a fucking stupid mook that can only play one needlessly verbose pretentious skinny dork character.
We’ll call you when we need a pretentious skinny dork, Jesse!
45And if Michael Cera is too busy at the time.
13Why are you so angry?
17Lex is one of my favorite villians and the actor was not even close. Like come on. So much reference material. Give the character class. Like yes the candy scene is on the film team but he could have played it closer to Lex.
On to the crux of my dissapoiyment, younger fans will not see better versions of the character and think he Is weird a f and now can't share in my Fandom! :: shakes fist ::
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I guess I’m the only one that liked this movie?
19That's likely the case
66If you can turn your brain fully off, like shut down, hold the power button ten seconds, wait for it to stop blinking, and unplug it from the wall, it can be a reasonably enjoyable dumb action ride.
What it sets out to do, it executes with a reasonable amount of technical prowess. There are scenes that are fun. Sometimes it’s nice to just watch shit explode or someone punch a car through a wall or whatever random thing happens. But it’s easy to lose the zen and find a million reasons to (rightly) hate the movie. I’m glad you like it. I generally enjoy it myself, when I’m in the right mood.
13I saw it in theatres, one in maybe 20 I've ever seen in my lifetime. I thought it was fine, everything I'd ever expect a "Batman fights Superman" movie to be.
Doesn't hurt that I don't care about either franchise and hadn't seen any other movies in the universe leading up to it lol. I was just invited last minute to see it with some friends
6and hadn’t seen any other movies in the universe leading up to it
Part of the problem was that there weren't movies leading up to it. They just dropped Batman vs Superman on us with zero build up, which it really needed because Bats was acting wildly out of character due to stuff that happened off screen.
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Wah. Crying all the way to the bank. Haven’t heard him complaining about the movie he did where he played a Bigfoot who shits and urinates on screen.
-11That didn't hurt his career because nobody saw it.
16So, how did this POS do the same, allegedly?
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