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Aaron Johnson is a very smart actor. Over the course of his relatively short career, he’s chosen roles early in his career that have proven him to be both commercially viable and dynamic on-screen. Commercially viable that is, if Kick-Ass opens well next week. Dynamic on-screen because as I reported from Sundance, he was sensational as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. And with all of that under his belt, that would usually be cause for signing on to more and more big projects — at least, that’s the traditional logic.

While you’d think that an up-and-coming actor such as the 19-year old Johnson, born in the UK, would jump at the chance to play another iconic role, he appears to be weary of making another superhero movie anytime soon. Katey Rich at Cinema Blend picked up a quote from Johnson at this week’s NY press conference for Kick-Ass, where he admitted that other studios had approached him “stupidly” to play other superhero characters. “Obviously they haven’t got that much of a creative brain when someone else has a movie coming out called Kick-Ass,” he explained. “Why would they want to be the next superhero that’s already been done before….”

Johnson declined to say what other superhero project he was offered — though logic would point toward the upcoming Spider-Man reboot — but he did go on to explain later that he would “play another superhero, but not necessarily soon.”

Most fascinating about this exchange is Johnson’s level-headed outlook toward the fact that once you play a superhero once, Hollywood seems to want to put you into a similar role right away. “It’s just ridiculous,” he said. “Producers just aren’t thinking. It’s why shit movies get made.”

What can we say? When the man’s got a point, the man’s got a point. Good for him.