2015 Movie News Archives

October 5, 2015: Jesse Eisenberg Says His Lex Luthor is a "Real Scary Person"

Lex Luthor In a new interview published by Vulture, Jesse Eisenberg speaks about playing Lex Luthor in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", how he read comic books for research, and the comparison between his Lex Luthor and Gene Hackman's...

    For his newest role as Lex Luthor in next year's Batman v. Superman, he read comic books to prepare, but hadn't read them much beforehand, something he thinks was probably for the best or he might have become the "obsequious comic book fan" who was "too excited to stop smiling" while filming. Nonetheless he was happy to have a lot of material to work with.

    "There is this trove of stuff about this guy. A lot of it's repetitive, like he always winds up on the roof of his building giving some faux benevolent talk about how he's going to change the city," he explained. "It's fun to take that campy cartoony stuff and try to put it into a real person and try to reconcile the two."

    Eisenberg also insisted his Luthor would be very different from Gene Hackman's classic portrayal in the Christopher Reeve films, noting that "this movie is so different ... it has real psychological underpinnings, and this movie character feels like a real scary person."

Source: Vulture.com.



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