He also believes all journalists are “pariahs”

Jul 15, 2015 07:33 GMT  ·  By
Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot and Jesse Eisenberg on the Warner Bros. panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015
   Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot and Jesse Eisenberg on the Warner Bros. panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015

Jesse Eisenberg plays one of the most iconic villains in the comic book universe in the upcoming, big-budget production “Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” but he’s still not ok with being thrust in the spotlight like this. To him, attending Comic-Con 2015 in San Diego last weekend was like “genocide.”

The comments, which were made at the premiere of the film “End of the Tour,” are already causing a heated debate online: are Jesse’s sense of humor and sarcasm really that biting, or should he stick to just learning and spitting back lines in front of a camera and not get into what he knows nothing about?

Jesse didn’t like Comic-Con

You can see the interview in which Jesse made the comments below.

He and the rest of the “Batman V. Superman” cast and director Zack Snyder were at Comic-Con 2015 for the Warner Bros. panel, held in the huge Hall H of the convention. Because Eisenberg plays Lex Luthor, the main villain in the film, the fans and the media got over-excited seeing him there, so he was probably mobbed both on his way in and out.

Eisenberg is notoriously private, so he couldn’t have possibly faced such a large crowd without feeling overwhelmed. In his eyes, the whole experience was like “genocide.”

“It is like being screamed at by thousands of people,” he explained. “I don't know what the experience is throughout history, probably some kind of genocide. I can't think of anything that's equivalent.”

You can see in the video, if Eisenberg is joking about this, he’s not letting on. There is no smile on his face and no twinkle in his eye, so there is really no way of knowing if he’s being sarcastic or dead serious.

Whichever it is, he most definitely hated the Comic-Con experience.

Eisenberg doesn’t care for journalists either

Similarly, there’s no way of knowing if he’s joking or being sarcastic while making the other comment either.

In “End of the Tour,” he plays journalist David Lipsky, while Jason Segal plays author David Foster Wallace, as he’s about to release his best-selling novel “Infinite Jest.”

Eisenberg says that, before this movie, he had never been on the other side of the fence and that he’d always been a “victim.” That’s how he sees himself as a celebrity, as an actor who has to do promo appearances to promote his work.

However, for the film, he met with Lipsky and learned what it takes to be a journalist. Because of that, he now understands “the pariahs that you guys [the journalists] are.”

We should note that Jesse Eisenberg isn’t talking with Extra or E! News or ET, or any other of the celebrity outlets. He’s chatting with someone from the Associated Press, so if he’s joking, he’s counting on a healthy sense of humor in an actual journalist.