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Entertainment Weekly snagged a date with Superman this week. Some of the chat from the magazine’s interview with actor Henry Cavill, who is playing Kal-El in the upcoming Zack Snyder movie, has popped up online.
ThinkMcFlyThink got their hands on a full copy of the magazine and transcribed some of the other bits not mentioned on the EW website. But first, here’s some of the article that the EW website did publish :
Cavill’s audition, which included shooting a screen test wearing a replica of Christopher Reeve’s once impressive, now dated Superman suit. “If you can put on that suit and pull it off,” says Snyder, ‘that’s an awesome achievement.” Cavill was feeling less than super in the moment, at least about his ability to fill out the costume: He had just finished shooting a film with Bruce Willis called The Cold Light Of Day, and the part required to him to shed the impressive abs of steel and muscle tone he had put on for the movie he made right before that, the forthcoming mythic fantasy Immortals. As an assistant helped to him put on the Super-suit, Cavill recalls: “All I could think was: Oh, god. They’re going to look at me and go ‘He’s not Superman. Not a chance.’
The actor inside me was going: You’re not ready! You’re not ready!” Snyder saw something — or rather someone — different. “He walked out, and no one laughed,” says the director. “Other actors put that suit on, and it’s a joke, even if they’re great actors. Henry put it on, and he exuded this kind of crazy-calm confidence that just made me go ‘Wow.’ Okay: This was Superman.’”
Now to the rest of the article, found only in the print version, which TMT has kindly transcribed.
In relation to his previous appointment as the Man of Steel in an abandoned McG version of the comic book, Cavill said : “It was wonderful to have a second stab at a job – and as a wiser, older, more experienced actor.”
Zack Snyder, it seems, has been a fan of the actor for quite some time.
“Snyder says he would have cast Cavill in his 2007 film 300, except the actor was holding out for another job: becoming the next 007”, wrote the magazine.
“I came very close,” says Cavill. “The choice was between a younger Bond and a Bond closer to his 30s, which is to say, Daniel Craig.”
In terms of who Cavill bet to the role of the Man of Steel, Snyder would only name one name : “True Blood” star Joe Manganiello.
‘Joe’s a great guy. I really liked him”, says Snyder, adding that it came down to a gut decision. ‘It was about seeing a quality that inspires the inexplicable, mysterious, cool emotion that says, ‘That’s my guy.'”
Meantime, Cavill will be getting in shape for his first stint as the future Justice Leaguer.
“‘Even during the audition, even amid my anxiety while wearing the older model, I had this extraordinary feeling: ‘Wow. I’m wearing the cape. I’m wearing the S.’ Extraordinary,’ he says. ‘I can’t wait to do it for real.'”
