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May 14, 2013: Jon Cryer Talks About the Downfall of "Superman IV"

Jon Cryer as Lenny Luthor While Jon Cryer is best known for his role as Alan Harper on the TV series "Two and a Half Men", to Superman fans he'll always be Lenny Luthor, the not-so-smart nephew of Lex Luthor, in the movie "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace".

AVClub.com has published an interview with Cryer in which he talks at length about his time filming "Superman IV", and how he had such high hopes for the film. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    The movie does not do justice to the script at all. The script was actually pretty clever. The script was basically that a kid asks Superman to get rid of all the nuclear weapons in the world, saying, "You're Superman! Why can't you do it?" That was a much bigger part of it than a lot of the really dumb Nuclear Man stuff that ended up being used. It ended up with Superman basically deciding that's something Earthlings are going to have to do for themselves, which I thought was an important message at the time. When I finally did see the movie, every frame of it hurt me physically. [Laughs.] I'd had such high hopes for it that... To feel like you're a part of the downfall of something that you had hoped to resurrect, that's a tough thing to take.

Read the entire interview at the AVClub.com website.



2013 Movie News

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