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Jesse Eisenberg is having a little bit of an awards season second this yr along with his acclaimed film A Actual Ache, which he stars in alongside Kieran Culkin and in addition directed and wrote.Jesse’s had a powerful profession that is stretched throughout a number of a long time at this level — however each spectacular profession has its lows in addition to highs.In a current look on the Armchair Professional podcast, Jesse revealed the one flick in his filmography that he thinks did some precise harm to his profession — and, I gotta say, his reply is just not particularly shocking.View this video on YouTubeThe perpetrator? 2016’s Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, a critically maligned DC Universe movie that, at this level, you actually might need forgotten even exists.In case you forgot: Jesse performed Superman’s perpetual nemesis Lex Luthor within the movie — and with a luscious head of hair to match, no much less.“I used to be on this Batman film and the Batman film was so poorly acquired, and I used to be so poorly acquired,” he informed Dax Shepard within the interview.“I’ve by no means stated this earlier than, and it’s type of embarrassing to confess, however I genuinely suppose it truly harm my profession in an actual manner, as a result of I used to be poorly acquired in one thing so public.”“Within the trade, when you’re in an enormous, large film and never seen pretty much as good, the people who find themselves selecting who to place subsequent of their film are simply not gonna choose you,” Jesse defined, happening to say that he is additionally starred in “poorly acquired issues that simply don’t see the sunshine of day, and for essentially the most half, nobody is aware of.”“However this was so public, and I don’t learn notices or opinions or film press or something, so I used to be unaware of how poorly it was acquired.”Regardless of all this, Jesse additionally insisted that he “cherished” the film. “So I really feel simply myself responsible,” he added. “I’m not like they did me fallacious. No. I’m like, ‘Oh, I suppose I did one thing fallacious there.’ And so it did really feel like I needed to climb out once more.”“It was miserable, however I’m depressed on a regular basis in some methods. Identical to, ‘Oh, yeah, after all, I had this nice alternative. After all, it didn’t go properly.’ Simply pessimism.”You possibly can watch (or take heed to) the whole interview right here.