As Nicholas Hoult‘s Lex Luthor is revealed within the first teaser for James Gunn‘s Superman, Jesse Eisenberg is lamenting his personal stint because the supervillain.
The Oscar nominee just lately mirrored on his “poorly obtained” flip as Lex in Zack Snyder‘s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), explaining the way it “harm” his profession.
“I used to be on this Batman film and the Batman film was so poorly obtained, and I used to be so poorly obtained,” he stated on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “I’ve by no means stated this earlier than and it’s form of embarrassing to confess, however I genuinely suppose it really harm my profession in an actual method, as a result of I used to be poorly obtained in one thing so public.”
Although Batman v. Superman flopped amongst critics with a 29% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it soared on the field workplace with a $874 million international haul. Justice League continued the streak with a barely higher Tomatometer ranking at 39% and $661 million worldwide.
“I’ve been in poorly obtained issues that simply don’t see the sunshine of day, and for essentially the most half, nobody is aware of,” defined Eisenberg. “But this was so public, and I don’t learn notices or evaluations or film press or something, so I used to be unaware of how poorly it was obtained.”
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 films’ affect on his profession, Eisenberg seems to have bounced again, just lately securing two Golden Globe nominations for his movie A Real Pain, together with Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy and Best Screenplay.
Eisenberg beforehand informed Deadline he wouldn’t rule out a return to the DC onscreen universe. “I’d be shocked if I wound up in a DC film, however it might be a nice shock,” he stated in 2022.
“Listen, I’m not a comic book e book fan. To me, it was not taking part in a task that I’d envisioned since childhood,” Eisenberg continued. “To me, it was an opportunity to play this nice character that this nice author wrote, and I liked doing that. So, to play it’s a pleasure, and to not play it isn’t one thing that I’m going to be ashamed to inform my youngsters about, as a result of that isn’t an vital style in my life, despite the fact that I liked doing that film.”
