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Jon Cryer hopes Lex Luthor role in Supergirl will make up for Superman IV

March 17, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Tonight, former Two and a Half Men star Jon Cryer makes his debut as the iconic supervillain Lex Luthor in The CW’s Supergirl. This isn’t Cryer’s first DC rodeo however, as he also portrayed the character of Lenny Luthor, Lex’s nephew, in 1987’s widely panned Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.


Well, during an interview with THR (via Dark Horizons), Cryer has been chatting about his role, stating that he hopes it atones for his earlier DC outing:

“Part of the reason I did Superman IV was because [Superman] changed my life,” states Cryer. “I was like 14-years-old and [Superman’s] tagline was, ‘You will believe a man can fly,’ and boy, I bought it! I totally bought it. Superman IV had really high hopes, but unfortunately, it was very disappointing for people and that had always sort of hurt me in a very 14-year-old boy way. And so I thought, you know, this is my chance to do it right.”

“I had a certain amount of familiarity [with Supergirl],” he continues. “I was very excited about working with Katie McGrath and I love the whole story that they’ve set up for this season. Yeah, I felt like Lenny [was] a branch on the family tree that fell off pretty early and was rotting on the ground basically for a long while…So I feel like this was my chance to sort of reclaim it and do it a little more justice, or injustice, as it were.”

SEE ALSO: Azie Tesfai promoted to series regular for Supergirl season 5

Cryer’s Luthor will make his first appearance in tonight’s episode ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, and you can take a look at two promos for the episode here.

Supergirl season 4 airs on Sundays on The CW.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: DC, jon cryer, Supergirl, Superman, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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