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 received” flip as Lex in Zack Snyder‘s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), explaining the way it “hurt” his profession.
“I was in this Batman movie and the Batman movie was so poorly received, and I was so poorly received,” he mentioned on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “I’ve never said this before and it’s kind of embarrassing to admit, but I genuinely think it actually hurt my career in a real way, because I was poorly received in something 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 world haul. Justice League continued the streak with a barely higher Tomatometer score at 39% and $661 million worldwide.
“I’ve been in poorly received things that just don’t see the light of day, and for the most part, no one knows,” defined Eisenberg. “But this was so public, and I don’t read notices or reviews or movie press or anything, so I was unaware of how poorly it was received.”
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 movie, but it would be a pleasant shock,” he mentioned in 2022.
“Listen, I’m not a comic book fan. To me, it was not playing a role that I’d envisioned since childhood,” Eisenberg continued. “To me, it was a chance to play this great character that this great writer wrote, and I loved doing that. So, to play it is a joy, and to not play it isn’t something that I’m going to be ashamed to tell my kids about, because that is not an important genre in my life, even though I loved doing that movie.”