As we covered earlier, Jesse Eisenberg had some mouth-farts about how much he hated going to Comic-Con to support his turn as Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman. When asked about Comic-Con, Jesse said these words: “I don’t know what the experience is throughout history, probably some kind of genocide. I can’t think of anything that’s equivalent.” Rude. Unprofessional. The stupid kind of hyperbole trap that so many celebrities fall into. What disturbed me too was the fact that Eisenberg couldn’t simply shrug off a “bad” experience at Comic-Con as just part of his job. Everything had to be melodramatic and like “genocide.” So, why devote another post to this? Well, Jesse is trying to explain his words.
Jesse Eisenberg has made not one, but two attempts to clarify his comment earlier this week that his Comic-Con experience was equivalent to genocide.
“Maybe on some cellular memory level, that’s the only thing that seems like an equivalent social experience,” the actor, 31, said during a joint interview Tuesday morning with costar Jason Segel to promote their film The End of the Tour. “Even if they’re saying nice things, just being shouted at by thousands of people, it’s horrifying.”
Then later in the afternoon Tuesday, the Social Network actor spoke to the AP once again to further explain his eyebrow-raising commentary, saying he “of course was using hyperbole to describe the sensory overload I experienced. I sometimes do employ that. I’m a normal person who has normal sensory experiences, so Comic-Con was very overwhelming for me.”
But despite his comments, he told the news outlet that it was an “honor to be on that end of such jubilation…That people are excited about it in that way is unheard of and thrilling … I’ve been on the receiving end of movies that no one loves and no one anticipates. That’s worse, even though it’s a much quieter press tour.”
Still no apology. And I can’t decide if not apologizing is a good move. I mean, he didn’t actually DO anything that he needs to apologize for. He just made an unpleasant hyperbolic comparison. Should he apologize? Eh. I don’t need an apology, but I do need him to suck it up, grow up and act like a professional actor. If he didn’t want to be part of a huge comic-book franchise – and all that entails – then don’t sign on to play Lex Luthor. If you find big crowds “horrifying,” then just do your little avant-garde theater and indie film projects that no one wants to see.
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