Jesse Eisenberg Says His Sundance Jewish Buddy Movie Is ‘Not Political’ and Gives His Advice to New Lex Luthor Actor Nicholas Hoult: ‘Don’t Watch Me!’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Jesse Eisenberg is officially giving his Lex Luthor advice to Nicholas Hoult, and it’s blunt: “Don’t watch me!” During an interview at the Variety Studio presented by Audible while attending the Sundance Film Festival, Eisenberg suggested Hoult should forge his own path and not pay attention to Eisenberg’s own work as Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder’s DC Universe. “Whenever you play a role you feel connected to it,” Eisenberg added to Variety‘s Matt Donnelly about playing the DC villain for a short time. “There’s no way around it.
Any time you do anything, even if it’s a movie that’s a Hollywood kind of thing, you connect.” Eisenberg played Lex Luthor in Snyder’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” With James Gunn and Peter Safran now in charge of DC Studios at Warner Bros., they are overhauling the DC Universe and creating an entirely new Man of Steel story with 2025’s “Superman: Legacy.” Nicholas Hoult is taking over the role of Lex Luthor in the new DC Universe.
David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan are playing Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Eisenberg is at the Sundance Film Festival with two movies: “Sasquatch Sunset” and “A Real Pain.” The latter film he also directed and stars in opposite recent “Succession” Emmy winner Kieran Culkin.
The actors play cousins who travel to Poland after their grandmother’s death to see where they came from and end up joining a Holocaust tour.
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