This isn't the first time Eisenberg has been self-deprecating about the role. He had some blunt advice for Hoult, telling Variety in January: "Don't watch me!" Jokes aside, he rei

The teaser trailer for James Gunn’s “Superman” brought with it the first footage of Nicholas Hoult as the villainous Lex Luthor, a role Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg knows well having played the infamous DC comics bad guy in Zack Snyder’s 2016 tentpole “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

The line between success and failure can get blurred under a deluge of criticism, especially when it starts affecting your real life. That appears to be what Jesse Eisenberg has been secretly dealing with for nearly a decade.