Jesse Eisenberg On What Makes Lex Luthor Different

Jesse Eisenberg On What Makes Lex Luthor Different

Written by Huzaifa Khan on June 19, 2015.

We've all been awaiting to see our first glimpses of next summer's big baddie Lex Luthor. Well, MTV caught up with Jesse Eisenberg while he is promoting his new movie The End Of The Tour and asked him about portraying Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

"It's a really great character. It was written by this guy, Chris Terrio (Argo). He's a phenomenal writer," Eisenberg began by praising the Batman v Superman screenwriter once again. "He comes from a place of character. He loves my character in the same way I love my character. He put a lot of work into it. It's a great character. There's an emotional core to character. It's not a silly villainous character."

Then MTV asked Eisenberg if looked back at any of Gene Hackman's performance as Lex Luthor in the Superman films that starred Christopher Reeve. "No, it is an entirely different thing," Eisenberg explained. "Also, the tone of that movies is so different, like that movie wouldn't be made now. Like the way we expect movies to be now is to have some kind of - I mean, it's probably for the best - there's some kind of psychological accuracy. That the person is coming from a place probably diagnosable in some way."

Check out his comments in a more "3-D" fashion below.

Be sure to catch Luthor and all his super buddies in next year's Batman v. Superman, hitting theaters on March 25, 2016.

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