For a little under a decade now, numerous actors have been given the opportunity to play Lex Luthor in live-action including Jon Cryer on Supergirl, Titus Welliver on Titans and Michael Cudlitz on Superman & Lois. Arguably the most prominent of the bunch, though, is Jesse Eisenberg, who portrayed Superman’s arch-nemesis in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and both cuts of Justice League. Now Nicholas Hoult is getting ready to leave his stamp on Luthor for the DC Universe movie Superman: Legacy, and Eisenberg gave him some amusingly blunt advice that is understandable given where he’s coming from.
While being interviewed by Variety at the Sundance Film Festival about his new movies Sasquatch Sunset and A Real Pain (the latter of which he also directed), Eisenberg strongly urged Hoult not to watch his DCEU appearances while crafting his own Lex Luthor performance, saying:
