But he gets to be Lex Luthor next year, so... don't feel too bad?
“Yeah, of course it’s an emotional blow,” Hoult admitted. “Your imagination does not know … you are aware on a practical level: ‘I know I am auditioning against Rob.’ And Rob is fantastic in that movie. That was the right decision. But you get excited by the prospect. Matt is a fantastic director and the script … it’s a cool movie and I want to be a part of it. It’s a brilliant character.
While not getting to play Batman was a crushing disappointment, Hoult will enjoy the arguably juicier role of Lex Luthor in James Gunn’snext year. As he admitted in the interview, “James Gunn is such a fantastic director and I was so excited by what he was building at DC. When we spoke…because they knew I had been through process, they didn’t want me to necessarily have to go through that again. That was very kind of them. There was an element of them being like, ‘We like you as an actor.
By comic book logic, it’s fitting a person jealous of a superhero should become their self-appointed archenemy, so Hoult’s Luthor will already have some ballast to work with when he takes on David Corenswet’s Superman next year. It’s literally Lex’s entire motivation.
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