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envision83 t1_j5pd68y wrote

Michael Rosenbaum was great in Smallville and would have been great for this series too.

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Carti-Rae-Jepsen t1_j5pe2zu wrote

I would have even settled for Jon Cryer. He did well as Lex

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DoomOne t1_j5qd50b wrote

Fun fact: John Cryer stated that his performance as Lex Luthor in Supergirl was an apology for the shit job he did as Lex Luthor's nephew Lenny in "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace".

He wanted to redeem himself and play a proper villain.

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envision83 t1_j5pekjt wrote

Yea… especially with how he’s aged he would do good and look good in the part. How he’s aged meaning he’s not that goofy looking guy from two and a half men anymore.

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Mattyzooks t1_j5pf9yu wrote

Cryer played Lex on Supergirl for 3 seasons. His performance was a highlight despite some shoddy writing. A solid mix of modern day arrogant super genius Luthor with dashes of the Hackman dark sense of humor and retro Luthor gadgets.
https://youtu.be/zaI4KKvIhQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmde4RAU-pc

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envision83 t1_j5pgc24 wrote

Yea I was looking up his IMDB….. I’ve never seen that show but my daughter likes it.

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Mattyzooks t1_j5pgkhc wrote

I wouldn't really recommend it but it had its moments.

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Stargazeer t1_j5qjn68 wrote

Shit. I legitimately didn't make the connection.

He's really good in Supergirl, honestly one of the best live action Lex castings.

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Green_Tea_Totaler t1_j5psibh wrote

Y'know, I didn't even know he was the "not-Charlie Sheen"- character in Two and a Half Men until relatively recently (I never watched that show).

He did a great job conveying Lex's trademark raging hate-boner for the Supes.

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srstone71 t1_j5poa1p wrote

Wait, yeah… isn’t Jon Cryer the Lex in this universe?

I admittedly haven’t seen a ton of DC television and I didn’t watch any of the big Crises crossover a few years ago that may or may not have explained it, but I know that Jon Cryer was the Lex in Supergirl and that Tyler Hoechlin was Superman on the show.

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DMPunk t1_j5pr51a wrote

The Superman show is on a different Earth from the Supergirl show. I'm not entirely sure why they did that, and why they waited until the end of season 2 to make that clarification, but it is a different universe

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numb3rb0y t1_j5ps6q8 wrote

Well, it wasn't a clarification, it was a retcon. Like 2 episodes earlier they had John Diggle guest dealing with an ongoing issue on the other shows.

The producer said they did it because with the final Flash season, the Arrowerverse is dead and they didn't want to be anchored to it.

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ItsADeparture t1_j5r3ul9 wrote

The funny part is that the SM&L producer even said "this version of Diggle is different and we show this by giving him longer hair and a beard."

He showed up on The Flash a few weeks earlier with the same exact hair and beard.

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Prax150 t1_j5qib06 wrote

Cryer was low key a fantastic Lex Luthor but I guess they don't want to associate the show to the Arrowverse? Like the Arrowverse has a Clark Kent that looks like Tyler Hoechlin but I guess that's a different Clark Kent than the one from Superman & Lois?

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xrnzaaasPL t1_j5pfcns wrote

Something tells me there's a conflict there and that's why he's not being cast, just like they passed on him when CW was doing a huge crossover with Tom Welling & Erica Durance involved (among others).

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linkman0596 t1_j5pr31r wrote

He already talked about why he turned down being in crisis. Apparently they called him and asked for an almost immediate answer despite not having a script or any idea of what they actually would with him if he agreed, and he got the call when he was at the hospital visiting a relative potentially on their death bed.

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stumpcity t1_j5phmw4 wrote

I don’t think they ever considered Rosenbaum, it’s probably not so much a conflict as it is just not a consideration. IIRC Cryer said he was the first option but there were conflicts with another show he was already contracted to.

So far as the Crisis crossover I believe Rosenbaum didn’t get looped in because he basically had a quote that production just wouldn’t meet. They did reach out but he wanted more money than they were willing to spend. Which is fine! Rosenbaum asked for his worth and when they said nah, he said fine. It’s probably nothing personal at all

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[deleted] t1_j5q7hs6 wrote

I think Rosenbaum said in an interview that they offered him a role in the Crisis crossover, but he only had a short time to accept it and the writers didn't even know how they were going to use him. So he decided to pass.

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merelyadoptedthedark t1_j5pnusm wrote

>Rosenbaum asked for his worth

Does he really have much worth in the acting world these days? All he does is his podcast.

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toughtacos t1_j5q6zyq wrote

He’s got a lot of very good guests, even though he’s a pretty bad host himself. Much like Lex Fridman now that I think about it… Fortunately the guests are always interesting to make up for that!

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Sentry459 t1_j5s4kj9 wrote

Oh I don't watch a lot of podcasts but I think he does a great job, what makes him a bad host to you?

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toughtacos t1_j5t6480 wrote

Which one? 😄 Rosenbaum isn’t terrible, but I never feel like he does any research on the guests he doesn’t know intimately from before, beforehand, and makes a lot of assumptions and the guests often end up correcting him. Maybe that doesn’t make him a bad host, but I think it makes for awkward moments. I like him as a person and actor, just not so much as a podcast host.

Fridman on the other hand is just a clout chaser who loves so surround himself with successful people and thrives on being able to say sentences starting or ending with, “my friend Elon/Rogan/Peterson/etc” 😁

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[deleted] t1_j5q7nhc wrote

I'm sure whatever he was asking for is reasonable. The problem is the CW is cheaper than dirt.

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envision83 t1_j5pgov1 wrote

What did they do a crossover on with him? Only other thing I know he was on was Lucifer… which was pretty good.

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FlaccidGhostLoad t1_j5sniyy wrote

Rosenbaum is beloved as Lex.

Rosenbaum is also really good friends with James Gunn. Who is now in charge of the DCEU and apparently, rumor has it, directing the next Superman movie.

I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that he brings his friend in to play the character again.

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