Clark Kent’s true form, The new Superman I would like to correct the record.
David Korenswet gave an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2019, where he said his “cake ambition in heaven” was to play Superman.
At that time, the paper was not on the market. And Korenswet, a Juliard and Native Philadelphia graduate, was just making a name in the industry, with circular papers in two Ryan Murphy Netflix series: “The Politician” and “Hollywood.” Tall, dark, and you know, handsome, people had told him that they looked like Superman for a long time. He did not, he told The Associated Press in a recent interview, to think he was going to have the opportunity to interpret him.
But a few years later he was chosen to lead “Superman” by James Gunn which will begin a new era, hopefully, of height, of the time for the DC Universe of Films when Hit the theaters on July 11. And that innocent appointment once acquired a life of its own. Many headlines and stories misunderstood the phrase and wrote that he said it was the role of their dreams, as if he had manifested it in existence.
“I said it was my cake ambition in the sky, which I meant that there was no (improper) form that was once going to happen,” said Korenswet, 31. “I was thinking about it, ‘Oh, who would not love to play an iconic role like that? Wouldn’t it be incredible and impossible if we lived in a universe where that could be considered?'”
Just at the time Gunn began to think about launching his new Superman movie, he decided to see his friend Ti West movie “Pearl”. In that dark and funny horror, Korenswet stood out for him as an interesting and charismatic presence. He touched a projectionist in a local movie theater that attracts Pearl’s attention (and, later, he faces his anger). West also had good things to say about him.
“David was one of the first auditions I got,” Gunn said. “Instantly, it was a relief because she had a playful charm about him that was not evident in ‘Pearl’. He had a sense of humor.
That was just the beginning of the long launch process. Even Nicholas Hault, who was finally chosen as Lex Luthor, was ready for paper. And although it was “extensive,” Korenswet said it was one of the “most satisfactory hearing processes” that has happened, not because he reserved the role, but because he felt he had the opportunity to show them what he had to offer.
Gunn laughed that Korenswt really has a lot of superman in him.
“Superman is a square and David is a square,” said Gunn. “He listens to the American songbook. Like Dean Martin and Cole Porter. That is what he listens to his iPad. That is strange. But Oh, Superman.”
When Gunn called him with the good news, the first person he told him was his wife. The second was his sister, who could not lift the phone because he was in a golf course.
“She sent a text message, ‘Is it possible that it was a phone call with super good news?'” He said. “I said: ‘Yes. Super good news.”
It can be a kind of Superman tradition to prove the disguise of his predecessor during a screen test. Henry Cavill did it with Christopher Reeve, and Korenswet did it with Cavill’s, which called a “engineering wonder.”
But the first time Korenswet put on his own Superman costume was not a magical and transported time. In fact, he said, it was “wonderfully mundane.” The suit was still in its initial stages, not totally together and even a bit small, since it had already begun to gain weight for paper.
“I remember the feeling of growing in the suit and suit that grows around me,” said Korenswet. “We had such an incredible costume team and built the suit around me in the course of many weeks and months and began to feel a bit like at home for me.”
The first time he felt that the impact was through other people’s eyes. For him, he was an old hat, but when he walked to the set the first time in the suit he noticed something different from the cast and the team.
“I saw its faces a kind of lighting and I was: ‘Wait a minute, these people don’t like them so much,” he laughed. “That’s when it hits you.”
There are almost three roles involved in playing Superman. There is the person who is with his parents and the people with whom he grew up. Is Clark Kent of the Daily Planet. And then it is Superman.
“He is a character facing the public, it is a symbol,” Corenswet said. “There is an element of presentation, because it does want to present an image of calm and authority. While it doesn’t always feel that way, it always wants to make other people sit as Superman.”
To prepare for Clark Kent, Korenswet looked at the comic of the star Superman and how Christopher Reeve changed his posture when Lois left the room, but he was also inspired for voice and behavior outside the canon: his brother -in -law, which has 6’8 “and 270 pounds, but is the” quieter and more wonderful man. “
“That’s where I took Clark’s spirit,” Corenswet said. “It is this great presence, but he is desperately trying to be as small as possible and calm.”
Gunn has promised that the film is “a personal trip for Superman that is completely new.” He is a character that is “quite good, but defective.” And anyone who has seen the trailer knows that there will be romance with Lne Lane de Rachel Brosnahan, but there is even a different turn in that.
“He is in love with her,” said Gunn. “She is the one who needs the convincing relationship. It’s not him. You really see where she needs it in her life.”
Korenswet said that, in addition to action and emotion, the film also has a quality of Preston raffles with “longing romance and ingenious comedy.” Hard for his reporters, “His Girl friday” was also a great reference with “the rhythm, pattern and feeling of two people in love who really are an equal game for the other.”
The movie is the beginning of a new era for DC movies, and will raise Korenswet’s profile in a immeasurable way. He has been in great films before, including “Twisters.” But being Superman is different.
“What changed my life immediately was that I had this incredible mission in which I had to continue playing the role and be a piece of making this incredible movie,” he said. “Now I have so many new friends. James brings together a cast and such a family team. And filming the movie is like an extended summer camp.”
In addition to the vibrations of the summer camp: the last day they even gathered to see a small highway of Blooper that Gunn had gathered. But what will happen when it is launched is not really something that I can understand right now.
“I hope some things change when the movie comes out,” he said. “But you know, one still has to wake up and breakfast.”
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