Henry Cavill’s Spent Years “Very Gently” Hoping for a Superman Return

That Henry Cavill is returning to Superman after technically 5 years nonetheless feels fairly recent, despite the fact that it’s been about two weeks because the information formally broke. Since he lastly broke the information, he’s made clear that he needs to return again as a extra joyful Man of Steel, and his gratefulness that he’s in a position to get one other shot on the character after first donning the cape in 2013.

But in chatting with Deadline for the outlet’s “The Film That Lit My Fuse” sequence, Cavill additionally touched on how he needed to mentally put together himself for the opportunity of not taking part in Superman once more. “As an actor, you have to learn that there are things out of your control…no matter how your performance was, no matter what factor were not in your control in the first place,” he defined. “[Being Superman] was something which I had to very gently hold onto in my heart.”

The tumultuous manufacturing of blockbuster superhero movies, and Warner Bros. extra broadly, is nicely documented. Cavill wouldn’t be the primary actor to get a uncooked deal from taking part in an iconic superhero, however he’s one on this fashionable period with the strangest lifecycle. Due to a faceless cameo in 2019’s Shazam and final 12 months’s information that WB enlisted Ta-Nehisi Coates and JJ Abrams to develop a film starring a Black Superman (which can or might not be nonetheless occurring), for a time it appeared pretty probably that Zack Snyder’s Justice League could function Cavill’s final go because the DCEU transitioned following the eventual universe-wide reset with 2023’s The Flash.

Cavill first auditioned to play Superman for 2006’s Superman Returns, a task which might finally go to Legends of Tomorrow’s Brandon Routh. For him, the attract of the DC character stemmed from his innate goodness and the impact he has on these round him, which he hopes he’ll get to carry throughout in regardless of the subsequent movie is the place Superman crops up.

“There’s something so true and honest and hopeful, which is the best of all of us, and I love that,” he continued. “I think it’s the thing which we all truly yearn for, deep, deep down, which is goodness, and everyone else being good, and good to one another. […] Even at our most cynical, I think that deep down, that’s what we want.”

Until we see Superman once more, we’ll should tide ourselves over with Cavill in yet one more season of The Witcher and so many extra Warhammer discussions.