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Crave Online: This wasn't the very first thing after Superman but may be the first thing people see, so how carefully are you still choosing things?

Brandon Routh: Still careful, still very carefully choosing. You know, it's important how I present myself and this is a great opportunity to show America who Brandon Routh was outside of the cape and tights, certainly is pretty much all people know me from. And so it's a great opportunity to play a real person, real emotion and I was excited to have a great opportunity to work with Mary Harron who is a fantastic film director who brought a great quality of cinematic feel to her episode. It's a thrilling episode. I didn't really want to do anything that was blood and guts only. Something like this which is very scary because it's almost kind of real. It could happen.

Crave Online: Would you consider a regular ongoing TV gig?

Brandon Routh: Not right now, not at this time, no. I did television a little bit but certainly have never been on a series except for my year on soap opera, but my interest is definitely in film for the time being. Episodic stuff, there's a lot of comedy stuff that would be fun to do. An episode of 30 Rock, something like that. Absolutely, I love doing comedy and there are some great shows out there but film is the thing for me.

Crave Online: What films did you shoot in between?

Brandon Routh: Several. Lie to Me which just premiered last Saturday. My wife, Courtney Ford is in it. That premiered last week at the Newport Beach film festival. We just found out we won Achievement in Filmmaking award in that so we're excited about that. And I did a film called Life is Hot in Cracktown which is still finding a home, a film called Miss Nobody which is a great dark comedy with Leslie Bibb, Kathy Baker, Missi Pyle which may be out later this year.

Crave Online: How are each of those characters different for you?

Brandon Routh: Well, in Miss Nobody is comedic, is a comedic role kind of leading man type of thing. This certainly being a character who is not wounded but is in duress, a lot of duress for most of the episode. And Lie to Me is about an open relationship, a couple that's in an open relationship so it's an emotional relationship movie with I think themes of fear and a fear of commitment that a lot of people my age and older always are really dealing with. And there's also a little bit of real levity and humor in that.

Crave Online: Is Justice League going to come out before the next Superman?

Brandon Routh: Oh, I think it seems as though that's not happening, it's on the back burner right now so it's just Man of Steel now.

Crave Online: When are you doing the next Superman? It's taking a long time.

Brandon Routh: I know, they're busy writing a script and then I trust we'll be starting next year, early next year. That's my timeline anyway.

Crave Online: Are you a fan of horror movies?

Brandon Routh: I enjoy a horror movie. What's happening, at least in my episode, I know that instead of being able to rely on the gore or the sexual gratuity or those kind of things, the episodes are more imaginative. And that's the kind of stuff that I like to see. So I'm excited that this is going to be available for people.