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US satirist Jon Stewart recently described him as 'the nicest, nicest guy ever'. So it's sort of a pop-culture redirect, you're gonna do, because of the certain status of an actor.In the US, however, Samberg, 34, is huge: the music videos for his band, the Lonely Island, get between 40m and 120m hits on YouTube and his fanbase spans the A-list. Introverted but constantly going, 'Okay, I see, uh-huh. and he's like, 'Yeah, that's cool,' and he was being very Jesse in the meeting. 'I said, 'I want to do this misdirect and you'd be great. 'I thought, if it were Jesse Eisenberg and he got out and he goes, 'I'm Jimmy Olsen,' you'd be like, oh my God, we're gonna have Jimmy Olsen in the whole movie, right?' And then if he got shot, you'd just be like, 'What!? You can't do that,' he told Entertainment Weekly in 2016, comparing the idea to Vivian Leigh's 'Psycho' death. But what I left from it was I didn't think I could do a good job in that role.'Īs for his side of the story, Snyder defended the almost casting as a desire to feature - and then kill - a famous face. 'Zack is a more visual guy, so his explanation included a lot of things I don't excel at, including camera movements and effects. He just described something very vague,' Eisenberg told Business Insider in 2016 of the Olsen role. 'Zack came to me, and I didn't know the character he wanted me to play.

Maybe it's for the best, then, that when the filmmaker first courted him, Eisenberg resisted. It's hard to imagine Eisenberg as either the traditional or reimagined Jimmy.

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'His will be, like, kind of a movie that people go to and mine will be in my living room that people occasionally go to but mostly one at a time.' I will say, quite confidently, different venues,' he replied, perhaps referring to Harrelson's theatrical release of 'Let There be Carnage' in October 2021 compared to his own return as Luthor (via HBO Max) in March 2021.

The pair were asked 'where you're going to be playing them next,' and Eisenberg responded by saying something that could be interpreted as a dig at streaming services - or, as some have come to believe, confirmation that he won't be playing Luthor again.

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While doing press for 'Zombieland: Double Tap' in 2019, Eisenberg did an interview for alongside series co-star (and 'Venom' franchise baddie) Harrelson. Eisenberg would reprise the role in 'Justice League' (or, more substantially, ' Zack Snyder's Justice League').īut approaching a decade later, and even after the largely accepting reviews that greeted the so-called 'Snyder Cut' of 'Justice League,' it appears as though Eisenberg's days of menacing Clark Kent may have reached a premature conclusion. Arriving in theaters a few years after Eisenberg was nominated for an Oscar playing a distanced, brilliant, aloof Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's 'The Social Network,' Eisenberg's work as the bald baddie ranged from Zuckerberg light (at its best moments) to Zuckerberg in the wrong film (at its worst). The script was all over the place, certain characters seemed superfluous, there was that whole goofy Martha thing - but much of the criticism seemed to focus on Jesse Eisenberg's choices as arguably the most iconic of DC supervillains, Lex Luthor. Looking back today, the film undoubtedly has its flaws. It also included a first look at Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, a role that would eventually become something of a breakthrough icon of cinematic feminism. 'Batman v Superman' would prove to be the first time audiences would see a live-action Batman and Superman together in the same film.

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