Meet David Corenswet, our new Superman

It is a Superman tradition to try on your predecessor's costume during a screen test

- Agencies

In true Clark Kent form, the new Superman would like to correct the record. David Corenswet gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly in 2019 where he said his "pie in the sky ambition" was to play Superman.

At that point, the role was not on the market. And Corenswet, a Julliard graduate and Philadelphia native, was just making a name for himself in the industry, with plum breakout roles in two Ryan Murphy Netflix series: The Politician and Hollywood. People had told him that he looked like Superman for a long time. He did not, he told The Associated Press in a recent interview, think that he was going to get the chance to play him.

But a few years later he was actually cast to lead James Gunn's Superman which will begin a new, hopefully high-flying, era for the DC universe of films when it hits theatres on 11 July.