"You’re gonna get me in trouble, man! People ask me about this all the time. OK, I’ll tell you the god’s honest truth," Shannon said. "Zack [Snyder] is gonna kill me for this — he’s gonna kill me. I watched it once and I fell asleep."

Addressing the baffled Fandango reporter, Shannon said, "I know, I know...I was on an international flight, and I was tired."

Watching the film, which starred Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill and was the sequel to the 2013 film, Man of Steel, on a small screen on a plane was not the best way to experience it for the first time, Shannon admitted.

"I shouldn’t have been watching it on a plane," he said. "But I never go to the movies anymore! I don’t have time to see anything. I used to go to the movies all the time when I was 20 years old and wasn’t working 10 days a week."

Shannon said he signed on to play Zod in the Man of Steel reboot because of the story, not just to be part of the Superman universe.

"When I did Man of Steel I thought the story was interesting; I thought it was relevant," he told Fandango. It was about a civilization that destroys the planet they live on and goes looking for another one. Ring any bells? That’s why I did it. I didn’t do it because I felt I needed a big comic book franchise — I honestly thought it was a beautiful story."

As for being a part of any other huge superhero franchises, Shannon says he has already passed on a new project.

"No, I’m not really looking for that," he said. "They called me recently about some iteration — I won’t say — but some version of a movie that’s been made already countless times. They were gonna give me a lot of of money, but I was like nah. Big movie, too. But I have to think it’s an interesting story. If I don’t, I can’t do it. I won’t do it."