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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