Jesse Eisenberg believes the reaction to #BatmanvSuperman and his performance as Lex Luthor hurt his career, even if that’s “kind of embarrassing to admit”https://t.co/NK8crbzFZg pic.twitter.com/ecAqs0WaRu
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Jesse Eisenberg, who played the iconic villain, Lex Luthor, in 2016’s ill-fated but financially successful Batman v Superman (and very briefly in Justice League), recently talked about the aftermath of that failure.
“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. I’ve been in poorly received things that just don’t see the light of day, and for the most part, no one knows, but this was so public,”
Jesse was reasonably big in the 2010s, especially after starring in David Fincher’s The Social Network. Eisenberg’s off-beat performance as Luthor was at the center of many harsh pieces of criticism.
He is doing fine now, with a potential awards contender in A Real Pain (which he also wrote and directed) coming up.
