{"id":265980,"date":"2019-01-23T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1007681"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:37:20","slug":"get-a-look-at-jon-cryer-as-lex-luthor-on-supergirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/get-a-look-at-jon-cryer-as-lex-luthor-on-supergirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Look At Jon Cryer As Lex Luthor on Supergirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.55033557047\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019023\/rs_634x950-190123105701-634-lex-luthor-ch-012319.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Lex Luthor, Supergirl, Jon Cryer\" alt=\"Lex Luthor, Supergirl, Jon Cryer\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">CW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.915094339623\">\n<p>A pretty major player is on his way to <em>Supergirl<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In season four, episode 15, we&#8217;ll finally get to meet the imprisoned Lex Luthor, brother to Lena Luthor (<strong>Katie McGrath<\/strong>), son to Lillian Luthor (<strong>Brenda Strong<\/strong>), and as was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/988253\/meet-supergirl-s-lex-luthor-jon-cryer\" target=\"_blank\">announced back in November<\/a>, he&#8217;ll be played by none other than <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jon_cryer\">Jon Cryer<\/a><\/strong>, star of <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a curious casting choice to be sure, and now that we&#8217;ve got our first look at Cryer as Lex Luthor, we&#8217;re still curious. The first pic released by the CW shows Luthor glaring through the door of a maximum security jail cell, arms crossed, bald as ever, and all we can think is that we&#8217;re going to have to get <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Smallville<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Michael Rosenbaum<\/strong> out of our heads for this to make sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>We&#8217;re not\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0on board, but we are very excited to see Cryer in action in a way we&#8217;ve never seen him before, and we look forward to being blown away by this performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, when E! News visited the set of the series ahead of the announcement,\u00a0<strong>Melissa Benoist<\/strong>\u00a0promised it was &#8220;really cool,&#8221; and she&#8217;s got to know what she&#8217;s talking about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>Cryer\u00a0makes his official debut in the episode &#8220;O Brother, Where Art Thou?&#8221; which airs Sunday, March 17. Lex reaches out from prison to enlist his sister Lena into one of his plans, and he will apparently stop ant nothing to get her on board, including threatening the life of one of her friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <em>Supergirl<\/em> is about to dive into the backstory of one Nia Nal (<strong>Nicole Maines<\/strong>) before she suits up as Dreamer, TV&#8217;s first transgender superhero, and continues to deal with anti-alien sentiments in National City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Supergirl<\/em> airs Sundays at 8 p.m. on the CW.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1007681\/get-a-look-at-jon-cryer-as-lex-luthor-on-supergirl?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CW A pretty major player is on his way to Supergirl.\u00a0 In season four, episode 15, we&#8217;ll finally get to meet the imprisoned Lex Luthor, brother to Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath), son to Lillian Luthor (Brenda Strong), and as was announced back in November, he&#8217;ll be played by none other than Jon Cryer, star of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:13:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}