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Nicholas Hoult Reveals How He Forged Superman’s Rival Lex Luthor For The DC Universe

Was Nicholas Hoult always the perfect pick for Lex Luthor? The Superman star reveals the key inspirations behind the DC Universe’s first villain.

“He’s someone who really worked hard for a long time in terms of science and himself and how he wants to be perceived and his intellect,” Hoult told Entertainment Weekly in a recent profile about his role in Superman. This goes hand-in-hand with the character’s compulsions in the DC Universe, with his warpath against Superman being so clear in his mind that everything else falls to the wayside: including keeping a clean head of hair! For as open as Nicholas Hoult has been about his process of preparing for Superman, fans still don’t know much about how Lex Luthor will play into the film, or even the wider DC Universe.

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