Henry Cavill Looking Forward to Story with an “Enormously Joyful Superman” - Hollywood Reporter

Henry Cavill says helium ne'er gave up anticipation that helium would play Superman immoderate time successful the future. Yet adjacent helium was amazed however affectional the acquisition was erstwhile helium yet enactment the cape backmost on.

Cavill was moving six days a week connected Netflix’s The Witcher erstwhile a woody came unneurotic for him to appear successful 1 country successful Black Adam, helium recalled during a speech with MTV’s Josh Horowitz astatine the 92nd Street Y Wednesday evening. He had to get support from The Witcher team, but arsenic the histrion recalled, “It was truthful apical concealed we couldn’t archer them what.”

When helium arrived astatine the Warner Bros. workplace successful the UK for the apical concealed shoot, helium enactment connected a suit that helium chose due to the fact that of its affectional resonance: the costume helium wore successful 2013’s Man Of Steel, his archetypal outing arsenic the hero.

“I chose that 1 successful peculiar due to the fact that of the nostalgia attached to the suit,” said Cavill during the conversation, which was a unrecorded taping of Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. “It was incredibly important to maine to beryllium lasting determination and enjoying that moment. That is 1 of the apical moments successful my career. It feels large to person the accidental to deterioration it again.”

The speech comes aft a news-making week for Cavill. The histrion returned to the large surface arsenic Superman for the archetypal clip successful 5 years successful Black Adam. And connected Monday, helium confirmed that helium volition so play Superman successful aboriginal DC installments, saying successful a video posted to societal media that what audiences saw successful Black Adam was conscionable “a tiny taste” of things to come.

Cavill was archetypal formed arsenic Superman for Man of Steel, directed by franchise designer Zack Snyder. The DC Universe has gone done seismic shifts since then. Warner Bros. is nether caller leadership, with Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad filmmaker James Gunn and shaper Peter Safran named to the apical posts astatine DC nether the recently launched DC Studios that volition beryllium location to Cavill’s aboriginal Superman outings.

Cavill responded to Gunn’s hiring, by noting helium is “very excited astir that” and joked of rumors that helium would articulation Marvel’s Loki that if Gunn could leap backmost and distant betwixt Marvel and DC, past possibly helium could do.

Sources person told The Hollywood Reporter that Warner Bros. is taking pitches from writers for a sequel to Man of Steel. Cavill declined to remark erstwhile Horowitz asked if determination was immoderate quality to stock successful presumption of filmmakers oregon writers: “Right present I can’t stock thing … but successful time, I’ll beryllium capable to stock and everyone volition perceive each the breathtaking things to come.”

Filmmaker Snyder sent successful a video question from the acceptable of his Netflix movie Rebel Moon, asking Cavill to bespeak connected their aboriginal flying scenes, and ending the video by noting, “I can’t hold to enactment with you again.”

Cavill responded by thanking the director: “He’s a beauteous man, and I americium enormously appreciative for everything he’s done for me. … Those are formative memories of mine, vocation wise. It is erstwhile everything changed. I retrieve them fondly. … Zack if you are watching … convey you, my friend.”

As for his future, Cavill did person immoderate thoughts.

Said the actor: “There is specified a agleam aboriginal up for the character, and I’m truthful excited to archer a communicative with an enormously joyful Superman.”