Michael Shannon, who recently reprised his role of General Zod in The Flash, is opening up about why he turned down a role in the Star Wars franchise back in 2016. “I’m always a bit wary about those giant movies.
Because they take a lot of time and I don’t find them very stimulating to work on. I don’t ever want to get stuck in a franchise,” the actor told Empire magazine. “I don’t find them interesting and I don’t want to perpetuate them.
If I’m making something, I want there to be some kind of purpose to it — I don’t want to make mindless entertainment. The world doesn’t need more mindless entertainment.
We’re inundated with it.” Despite rejecting the role in Star Wars for being a franchise, Shannon has found himself in a franchise within the DC Universe.
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