First Look at BOSCH Star Titus Welliver as Lex Luthor in DC's TITANS Season 4
Bosch star Titus Welliver is playing Lex Luthor in the upcoming season of DC’s Titans series, and we have our first look at the actor in the role. The image comes from EW and Titans showrunner Greg Walker talks about casting Welliver as Lex, saying:
"You usually have to do this whole dog-and-pony show to get an actor to do the show. But when I called to kind of lure him in, I could barely get a word in. We were talking on the phone and he was just walking through his library, telling me about all his Wolfman/Perez Titans editions. He's a giant, giant fan. He'd watched every episode of the show, and could tell me about certain stories, certain shots. It was the most unexpected call I've ever had."
Seems like Welliver really wanted to join the show! He seems like a great choice for Lex, and I’m pretty stoked about seeing his version of the villain! When talking about this version of the character, Walker shared:
"He has a very sensitive, thoughtful approach to evil and power. You know what he's done, what he's capable of doing, except like many of those people, he's personable. He doesn't have a cat on his lap. Yeah. He's curious, which I think is very interesting about his character. He wants to know about people and what makes them tick, and how they're different from him. He sees the world through the lens both of his own power and his own inadequacy, and tries to compensate for both."
It’s explained that Lex Luther is a threatening villain for Superboy. This version of Superboy a.k.a. Conner (Joshua Orpin) was created from a combination of Superman's DNA with Luthor's. In this next season, Conner will wrestle with and come to terms with what that means:
"We're really going deeper in all these characters and shaking them up. What shakes Conner up is an identity story. He's explored his Superman self, but he has not really explored his Lex self. What does that mean when you do? What happens when you give that self the keys to the car? Does it start driving the wrong way at rush hour 100 miles an hour?"
Titans season 4 premieres on HBO Max this November.