{"id":808928,"date":"2026-10-20T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808928\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:56:09","slug":"jesse-eisenberg-says-batman-v-superman-razzie-cost-him-major-movie-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808928\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Eisenberg says ‘Batman v Superman’ Razzie cost him major movie roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Eisenberg says he turned to directing to \u201ckeep [his] career afloat\u201d after earning a Razzie<\/a> for his performance in \u201cBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The actor-turned-filmmaker won the Razzie for worst supporting actor in 2017 for his role as Lex Luthor in the 2016 superhero film, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck as Batman as well as Henry Cavill as Superman.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival<\/a> on Sunday, Eisenberg, 43, said he shifted his focus away from acting after winning the award, per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jesse Eisenberg said he turned to directing to \u201ckeep [his] career afloat\u201d after earning a Razzie for his performance in \u201cBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.\u201d (Eisenberg is pictured above on stage at the 2026 BFI London Film Festival.) Getty Images for BFI<\/p>\n

Eisenberg said he shifted his focus away from acting after winning the Razzie for worst supporting actor for his role as Lex Luthor in the 2016 superhero film. (Eisenberg is seen above on the red carpet at the BFI LFF premiere of \u201cThe Debut.\u201d) ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, a lot of it just came from fear,\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get into movie studio parts anymore because I had won a Raspberry Award from [being in the] \u2018Batman\u2019 movie \u2026 and I saw the trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to explain that actors are \u201cconstantly panicked about, am I on an upslope or a downslope?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause there\u2019s no plateau. Acting is just this unstable, awful industry where you are either on the treadmill and you\u2019re doing OK and you\u2019re running up, or you are yesterday\u2019s news, and it\u2019s awful,\u201d Eisenberg continued. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re a paranoid person like me, you see it way in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, a lot of it just came from fear. I couldn\u2019t get into movie studio parts anymore because I had won a Raspberry Award from [being in the] \u2018Batman\u2019 movie \u2026 and I saw the trajectory,\u201d Eisenberg said. (He is pictured above as Lex Luthor in \u201cBatman v Superman.\u201d) \u00a9Warner Bros\/courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\u201cActing is just this unstable, awful industry where you are either on the treadmill and you\u2019re doing OK and you\u2019re running up, or you are yesterday\u2019s news, and it\u2019s awful,\u201d Eisenberg said. (He is seen above as Lux Luthor alongside Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman.) \u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was like, I\u2019ve got to direct movies. That\u2019s why I started writing them, just to kind of keep my career afloat, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cSocial Network\u201d<\/a> star is currently promoting his latest film as a director, A24\u2019s musical comedy \u201cThe Debut,\u201d<\/a> starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti.<\/p>\n

\u201cBatman v Superman\u201d led the 2017 Razzie nominations<\/a>, later taking home awards for worst screenplay, worst sequel and worst screen combo.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was like, I\u2019ve got to direct movies. That\u2019s why I started writing them, just to kind of keep my career afloat, really,\u201d Eisenberg said. (He is pictured above as Lex Luthor.) \u00a9Warner Bros\/courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Eisenberg is currently promoting his latest film as a director, A24\u2019s musical comedy \u201cThe Debut,\u201d starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti. (Eisenberg is seen above on stage at the 2026 New York Film Festival.) Getty Images for FLC<\/p>\n

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Eisenberg said at the LFF that he took the awards as a sign that the industry \u201cdid not want [him] to be in a superhero movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe industry tells you what they want from you,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re smart and self-aware, you learn that quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you know, it\u2019s the unsuccessful actor that goes, \u2018No, I want to be in more of those,’\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen, and they don\u2019t want you there. And they wouldn\u2019t have given you a Raspberry Award if they wanted you there. That\u2019s an award for bad acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so the industry tells you what it wants, and if you want a career in the arts, you have to follow the things that you\u2019re being told are liked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBatman v Superman\u201d led the 2017 Razzie nominations and later took home four awards, which Eisenberg said he took as a sign that the industry \u201cdid not want [him] to be in a superhero movie.\u201d (Eisenberg is pictured above at the 2026 Zurich Film Festival.) Getty Images for ZFF<\/p>\n

\u201cThe industry tells you what it wants, and if you want a career in the arts, you have to follow the things that you\u2019re being told are liked,\u201d Eisenberg said. (He is seen above at the 2026 San Sebastian International Film Festival.) Getty Images<\/p>\n

Still, Eisenberg would go on to appear in \u201cNow You See Me 2,\u201d \u201cZombieland: Double Tap\u201d and, notably, \u201cZack Snyder\u2019s Justice League,\u201d before making his directorial debut with \u201cWhen You Finish Saving the World.\u201d<\/p>\n

His second film as a director, 2024\u2019s \u201cA Real Pain\u201d \u2014 which he also co-starred in alongside Kieran Culkin \u2014 earned Eisenberg an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.<\/p>\n

Eisenberg previously told Page Six that he felt like a \u201chack\u201d<\/a> after Culkin, 44, questioned his direction on the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt immediately embarrassed,\u201d he said in part. \u201cI always just kind of try to consider the behavior that I can change, which is my own, and I was thinking, yeah, I\u2019m probably in the wrong here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Eisenberg says he turned to directing to \u201ckeep [his] career afloat\u201d after earning a Razzie for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28267,92274,2755,24823,96,92336,82460,2839,264554,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice","tag-celebrity-news","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-london-film-festival","tag-movies","tag-razzies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}