Henry Cavill refused to give David Corenswet advice about playing Superman
Henry Cavill (right) refused to give David Corenswet (left) any advice about playing Superman.
PHOTO: Superman (2025), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
PUBLISHED ONJuly 07, 2025 8:32 AM
Henry Cavill refused to give David Corenswet any advice about playing Superman.
The 42-year-old actor portrayed the superhero in a number of movies beginning with 2013's Superman: Man of Steel, and though his successor in the DC universe looked to both Henry and Tyler Hoechlin — who played Clark Kent and his alter ego in Superman + Lois — for some tips on the role, the pair encouraged David to find his own way as the character.
Speaking to Heart, David said the pair were "encouraging" but added: "Both of them, interestingly, sort of said in their own words, 'I'm not gonna try and give you any tips.'
"And I think that's a very Superman thing. Superman's not so much for giving advice or dictating how other people should be.
"They really just conveyed to me an encouragement and a sense of 'have fun with it', which I think is Superman's way of doing it too."
David hopes to meet his fellow Superman stars in the future.
He added: "They were very encouraging and we had a lovely experience.
"I'm excited to meet them one day. It'll be great when we can all get in a room together."
David previously admitted that he found screen-testing for Superman to be an "intense" experience.
The actor learnt that his wife, Julia, was pregnant shortly before he screen-tested for the role, and he confessed that it was a particularly intense period of time for him.
David — who landed the role of Superman in 2023 — told People: "She told me that she was pregnant two days after I found out I was going to screen test for Superman.
"For the first several months of her pregnancy, as is sort of protocol, we weren't telling anybody. We had these two quite huge secrets that we just had between the two of us. And that was intense.
"For a period we had just each other for these two huge things. It was very close. It wasn't direct, but it was still very close. But it was just having to do two big unknown things at the same time. And they were both great things."
David also felt the weight of pressure and expectation after he landed the role.
The Hollywood star said: "I feel much more a sense of responsibility than a sense of accomplishment having done the role. I also know that so much in life and especially the life of an actor is up to chance and good luck, and certainly you get what you make of your situation."
Source: Bang
