Batman v Superman: Jesse Eisenberg Tries To Explain Lex Luthor
Jesse Eisenberg defends Lex Luthor’s behavior in Batman v Superman
Batman v Superman may be making money hand over fist, but it recieved a pretty critical drubbing. One of the biggest complaints was Jesse Eisenberg’s performance as Lex Luthor. Not only did he seem like some bipolar psychopath whose motivations changed every 20 minutes (aliens are bad, my father beat me!), but he didn’t seem to have an actual plan. Killing Superman? Unleashing Doomsday? Nearly blowing up Metropolis and Gotham? To what end? Lex Luthor usually has much better plans than that.
Batman v Superman star Jesse Eisenberg tried to explain Lex Luthor’s actions in the film:
"I think Lex becomes increasingly unhinged throughout the movie. I also think he’s a guy who has 40 back-up plans and so when one thing doesn’t work out he has another and if that doesn’t work out he has another, which is why I think he never feels that threatened by Superman and Batman because he knows he always has the leverage and his final act, in my opinion; and this is now thinking back a year-and-a-half – was this kind of like last-ditch effort to leave it all on the table."
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But backup plans for what? That still really doesn’t go any further into explaining what Lex’s motivations were or what if any actual goal he had. Also, Lex Luthor is not a guy who at least visibly becomes unhinged. I actually saw Batman v Superman a second time this past weekend with my wife, who hadn’t seen it yet, and she commented that there is some crazy guy who is not Lex Luthor running LexCorp. And maybe that’s right. I mean, there was that “article” where it was revealed he was actually Alexander Luthor, Lex Luthor’s son. But that seemed to be a bunch of nothing until the film actually came out. So maybe this isn’t Lex Luthor, just some other guy with the last name of Luthor. Who is just crazy. But I’m pretty sure that’s not what anyone wanted from someone who is supposed to be Suerman’s arch nemesis. Batman v Superman is in theaters now.
h/t Comicbook.com