Brainiac actor Lars Eidinger opens up in a recent interview about playing the villain in James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow. The sequel to Superman, Man of Tomorrow see’s Lex Luthor and Superman having to team up against a much bigger threat, Eidinger’s Brainiac.
Speaking with THR, Eideinger talked about why he plays so many baddies and he’s happy to keep doing so? Check the full article in the link for everything the actor had to say. However, describing how his theatrical work helps with films like Man of Tomorrow, Eidinger said,
“Yes, the theatrical quality has actually helped me enormously in the context of Superman, too, because it involves a different register of performance, one that isn’t primarily realistic and allows for a far more expressive style of playing. When I watch a film like James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, I find it has a great theatrical quality — in the handling of good and evil, and in a certain tendency toward allegory. Brainiac is described as the incarnation of Satan. I find that almost Shakespearean. The king, the fool — there are so many parallels for me.”
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As for what drew him to this Superhero genre?
“It’s not as different as you might think. Even if it seems surprising at first, these films have a serious philosophical ambition. They carry great allegorical weight for me. Take just the word “super” — it’s used as a superlative, for something excellent, wonderful. But “super” really only means “over” or “above.” So Superman is the Übermensch. You have the Super Ego. There’s already a deep psychological dimension built in.”
“Last week I was on set during rehearsals and asked if I could watch some of the filming, which had already started. And I saw an actor in the Superman costume, suspended on wires in front of a bluescreen. I looked at that image and thought: This is the essence of fiction. It’s as significant an image as Hamlet holding the skull: Superman, in that Superman pose, hanging from wires in front of a bluescreen.”
“Being in the Superman universe wasn’t a dream or burning desire for me. But now that it’s happening, I can see a certain inevitability in it, something almost fated.”
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