any actor in a comic book movie scrambling for a genuine response after an interviewer asks them to talk about the c-list villain they’ll be playing even though the character is only known to the most hardcore comic readers and even then their big moment was a 4-issue arc back in 1978 where they usurped the king of the Astral Moon Realm or whatever, and spends the next few decades popping up as hired help for actual big leaguers (your Darkseids, your Magnetos) and what can they DO with that, ultimately, I mean sure Phillip Seymour Hoffman took absolutely nothing roles in Mission Impossible and Hunger Games and made them his own, and they thought maybe they could do the same but half their scenes are against a green screen talking to a sea of tennis balls and mocap suits and it doesn’t help that the director (well, after the first one was replaced) is really cagey about what the story actually IS due to studio mandates and there’s talk going around that the script is actually still going through rewrites and for god’s sake can’t they just come clean about the role being more or less a paycheck (and if they get called back three years down the line for what amounts to a cameo in the next big tentpole crossover movie for 3 days of filming that will pay for a year of their kid’s college, then so much the better, especially since the limited series they were starring in before this got unceremoniously dropped after 8 episodes (solid 80% on rotten tomatoes but abysmal viewership which honestly what did they expect burying it on Amazon Prime Video)) and that they secretly hope their character’s extensive CGI will make them all but unrecognizable because the last thing they need is some gif of them to become a meme or something particularly since they heard they’re in the running for a supporting role on season 3 of a prestigious HBO drama that’s become a runaway hit so god willing they’ll forget about all of this by this time next year, but in the present moment their eyes snap back into focus because these press junkets are just what you gotta DO and their mind flashes back to the second week of acting classes in undergrad where a perfectly acceptable stock answer awaits them like a pearl amongst grit: