Ray Fisher Talks How He Landed Cyborg Role

While it's not unexpected for Hollywood icons like Ben Affleck or rising stars like Ezra Miller to [...]

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While it's not unexpected for Hollywood icons like Ben Affleck or rising stars like Ezra Miller to hand high-profile superhero roles, the addition of Ray Fisher to the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice cast turned a few heads.

The Broadway actor certainly hadn't done anything like being a mangled, near-dead cyborg before he came to the DC Universe, so during a recent set visit, he was quizzed as to how he ended up there.

"I was in a play off Broadway playing Muhammad Ali at the New York Theater Workshop about three years ago now. Around the time, I'd seen [Ang Lee], one of his upcoming projects was a 3D boxing movie about Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, He came to see the show at that point in time and I hadn't had an agent or a manager up until that point, but once people caught word of that and started coming to the show to see who is this guy that this person's coming to look at. From there I signed up and went out to California for a visit and met up with Gordon Kennedy and Christie Carlson of Warner Bros., and they said, we have something that may be right for you. We can't tell you what it is. It's just in the realm of the Batman/Superman universe. I was like, "All right, I'm done. Sign me up. I said, 'I'll play a tree.'"

"From there ended up putting something on tape for Zach Halls in New York and we went out to Detroit and tested and it just sort of fell in to place," Fisher added. "It moved very, very quickly and I'm extremely grateful that it happened the way that it did, coming up in the theater, grinding for 10 years, trying to make the ends meet. It was a pretty sweet payoff."

There's some small part of my comic-nerd heart that's filled with warmth at the idea that Detroit played a key role in the formation of the cinematic Justice League...!

Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder, is filming now. It also stars Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, and Ezra Miller as The Flash. Spider-Man villain Willem Dafoe has joined the cast as Atlantean soldier Vulco, while Amber Heard will appear as Mera. J.K. Simmons has joined as Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon, while Amy Adams is expected to reprise her role as Lois Lane.

The movie is set to hit theaters on November 17, 2017 -- the twenth-fifth anniversary of the release of Superman #75, the best-selling finale to "Doomsday!: The Death of Superman."

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