Nicholas Hoult Shares How He's Preparing for His Role as Lex Luthor in James Gunn's 'Superman' | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

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Nicholas Hoult is opening up about preparing to play Lex Luthor in James Gunn's upcoming 'Superman.' The actor stopped by the 'Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum' podcast and spoke about the prep process on the highly anticipated movie, which began production last week.

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00:00Nicholas Holtz is opening up about preparing to play Lex Luthor in James Gunn's upcoming Superman.

00:06The actor stopped by the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast

00:10and spoke about the prep process on the highly anticipated movie, which began production last week.

00:16Touching on the audition process for the classic villain, he noted that Gunn has an ability to keep things fun and alive

00:22and try things in the moment and be like just shouting out from the monitors.

00:25Say this line, do this, do that, and that's something that I really enjoy.

00:29That's the whole process of prep for me, is like be prepared as possible

00:33so when you get there you can throw it all away and do whatever you want in the moment.

00:37The Renfield actor also told the host that he began working out to play Lex.

00:41There's that bit in All-Star Superman where he talks about his muscles being real and hard work and all that.

00:46I kind of took that as a little bit of fuel for the fire.

00:49Holtz also revealed to Rosenbaum, who played a younger version of Lex on Smallville,

00:54that his iteration of the villain was the first time he saw Lex on screen.

00:57The first ever Lex I saw was you.

01:00Yeah, I grew up, Smallville was on.

01:02That was the show I would watch and see my first iterations of Superman and Lex and all those stories.

01:07At the end of February, Gunn shared a photo of the cast all together for the first time,

01:11noting that the image was taken after the first table read.

01:14Holtz appeared to be sporting a shaved head, gearing up to play Lex.

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