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Superman: Nicholas Hoult Looked To Gene Hackman And Smallville For His Lex Luthor

The British actor – recently seen in Nosferatu – is going villain mode in James Gunn's Superman. Read more at Empire.

Now, in James Gunn’s much-anticipated Superman, playing opposite David Corenswet’s Man Of Steel as Lex is Nicholas Hoult – and he’s taking inspiration from several previous Lex performances. [But] it seems like a lot of the performances that I grew up loving, or specifically when actors would go on runs of things, [it] seemed to be in their thirties and forties. So I’ve always been excited about this period of my career.” Bring on more twisted Lex Luthor schemes.

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