In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hoult recalled that he watched Smallville during his youth, adding that he received advice from Michael Rosenbaum - the actor who played Luthor in the show - prior to his work on Superman.

While Jon Cryer and Michael Cudlitz have recently played versions of Lex Luthor in The CW series Supergirl and Superman & Lois, respectively, Hoult recalled growing up with Hackman’s Luthor and Rosenbaum’s Lex as “the first Lex that I was more aware of.”

Despite being the top-billed star of the new Superman movie, David Corenswet was paid surprisingly less than one of his co-stars.