2014 Movie News Archives

May 13, 2014: Jesse Eisenberg Talks Lex Luthor Role

Jesse Eisenberg In an interview with IGN.com, Jesse Eisenberg spoke a little bit about how he'll be approaching the role of Lex Luthor for the upcoming Superman/Batman movie.

    IGN Movies: I know you can't say much, but I have to ask about Lex Luthor. How much of a game changer will your Lex Luthor be from the incarnations we've seen of this character in the past?

    Jesse Eisenberg: It'll definitely be played by a different person, but I don't know really how different this - I don't know the history as well as the people making the movie, so I guess it's up to them to figure out how much they want to separate it from previous incarnations. But I will treat it like it's its own role. There's no way to play the history of the character played by other people, unless you do some kind of wink, but that doesn't seem like a responsible way to act. So I will just do it as though it's a character, in the same way you do a movie like The Double, which is a smaller movie - but you just kind of treat it like a character, and that's probably the best course of action, I think.

    IGN: Will you be bald?

    Eisenberg: I'm not allowed to say anything, because of their privacy.

    IGN: Were you initially skeptical of doing a big comic book movie, or was it kind of like, "Oh, why haven't I done this kind of movie before?"

    Eisenberg: The character's really good, so it's like doing anything else. They make a lot of those movies, so if you're an actor in things, you will probably cross paths with it at some point. But the character's written really well. It's a really great role. The fact that it's in a big movie, you know, it seems like a character that would be in any kind of movie. It just happens to be in a bigger, flashier kind of thing.

Source: IGN.com



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