Jesse Eisenberg “was so poorly received” as Lex Luthor in ‘Batman v Superman’ that “it actually hurt my career”

nme.com:

Jesse Eisenberg has admitted that his role as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice was “was so poorly received” that it set back his career.The actor, who is currently starring in A Real Pain, told the Armchair Expert podcast that while he had been in other performances that were similarly poorly received, nothing else had such an impact as the 2016 DC movie and 2017’s Justice League.He said: “I was in this Batman movie and the Batman movie was so poorly received, and I was so poorly received.

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.