Jesse Eisenberg is having a little bit of an awards season second this yr along with his acclaimed film A Actual Ache, which he stars in alongside Kieran Culkin and in addition directed and wrote.
Jesse’s had a formidable profession that is stretched throughout a number of a long time at this level — however each spectacular profession has its lows in addition to highs.
In a latest look on the Armchair Skilled podcast, Jesse revealed the one flick in his filmography that he thinks did some precise injury to his profession — and, I gotta say, his reply shouldn’t be particularly shocking.
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The perpetrator? 2016’s Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, a critically maligned DC Universe movie that, at this level, you actually might need forgotten even exists.
In case you forgot: Jesse performed Superman’s perpetual nemesis Lex Luthor within the movie — and with a luscious head of hair to match, no much less.
“I used to be on this Batman film and the Batman film was so poorly obtained, and I used to be so poorly obtained,” he instructed Dax Shepard within the interview.
“I’ve by no means mentioned this earlier than, and it’s sort of embarrassing to confess, however I genuinely assume it really harm my profession in an actual manner, as a result of I used to be poorly obtained in one thing so public.”
“Within the business, if you happen to’re in an enormous, large film and never seen nearly as good, the people who find themselves selecting who to place subsequent of their film are simply not gonna choose you,” Jesse defined, occurring to say that he is additionally starred in “poorly obtained issues that simply don’t see the sunshine of day, and for essentially the most half, nobody is aware of.”
“However this was so public, and I don’t learn notices or critiques or film press or something, so I used to be unaware of how poorly it was obtained.”
Regardless of all this, Jesse additionally insisted that he “liked” the film. “So I really feel simply myself accountable,” he added. “I’m not like they did me fallacious. No. I’m like, ‘Oh, I assume I did one thing fallacious there.’ And so it did really feel like I needed to climb out once more.”
“It was miserable, however I’m depressed on a regular basis in some methods. Similar to, ‘Oh, yeah, in fact, I had this nice alternative. After all, it didn’t go nicely.’ Simply pessimism.”
You’ll be able to watch (or hearken to) the whole interview right here.
