No one tell him about the DC Extended Universe, but Michael Shannon has revealed why he turned down a StarWars role in 2016:
Man of Steel"It's basically looking at a civilization that destroyed their own planet and think the solution is to go off and destroy another. When you hear that hypothetically, if we destroy the Earth, we might go live on Mars — It's the same thing," he said. "I didn't look at Zod as a villain. I just saw him as a guy whose job is to protect his people."
Shannon also noted that he didn't know his character would be brought back in a subsequent film nearly a decade later when he originally signed onto the project. "Yeah, I didn't see myself playing Zod again, because he was dead. It's actually one of the reasons I madein the first place — It was a one-and-done. So I was pretty shocked to hear about this reprisal of the role," he said. "But I like the story thatis telling and I wasn't there for a long amount of time — I was just there a couple of weeks — so it didn't break my back to do it.
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