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Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role 'Hurt My Career in a Real Way'

www.hollywoodreporter.com Jesse Eisenberg Says Lex Luthor Role ‘Hurt My Career in a Real Way’

Jesse Eisenberg discusses how his role as Lex Luthor in ‘Batman v Superman’ negatively impacted his career while appearing on ‘Armchair Expert.’

Jesse Eisenberg discusses how he felt his role as Lex Luthor in 'Batman v Superman' negatively impacted his career while appearing on 'Armchair Expert.

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www.hollywoodreporter.com /movies/movie-news/jesse-eisenberg-lex-luthor-role-hurt-career-batman-v-superman-1236092017/

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Being 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.
- Reminds me of Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern
  
  I dunno, I still think Reynolds did a good job in the movie. The script was bad to meh, but he carried off Hal very well imo
- What 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
  
  Yes, your opinion is more correct than my opinion...

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.
- Or Mark Strong, even Stanley Tucci would be awesome
  
  Danny De Vito
- Zane would be amazing but I gotta say I would love to see a Stephen Tobolowsky Lex Luthor
- Nah they really need Michael Cera

He was, and always has been, a tedious actor to watch.
- Wtf does that even mean?
  
  He’s not a good actor. Not interesting. Boring to watch. He has zero talent in the thespian realm.
  In short, I generally don’t like the films he is in.
  Just my opinion

Good 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!
- Why are you so angry?
  
  Lex 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 ::
- And if Michael Cera is too busy at the time.

I guess I’m the only one that liked this movie?
- That's likely the case
- If 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.
  
  I think it still sucks as a turn your brain off movie.
  There really isn't much action for, like, 80% of the movie. It's too busy trying to be smart and utterly failing, so either way that's a ton of boring unenjoyable talky stuff whether your brain is on or off.
- I 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
  
  and 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.

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??
- I 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.

Leonardo DiCaprio advice Timothy Chalemet was "No hard drugs and no superhero movies."
- Dune isn't a super hero film. It's a space opera based on a series of Novels.
  Super Hero films are typically based on comic book stories from the likes of Marvel / DC / Dark Horse.
  
  Bro the dude has psychic powers, he's pretty close
- And then he did Dune.
  
  That's just sci-fi, not super hero like Marvel/DC.
  
  I think the threshold may be: adapted from comic book equals hero movie; adapted from novel equals sci fi.

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.

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.
- That didn't hurt his career because nobody saw it.
  
  So, how did this POS do the same, allegedly?

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