"Thank God that I didn't have to do that," Eastwood told <> when asked about the role that winded up going to Christopher Reeve who he said was "excellent" as the Man of Steel. "I can remember – and this was many years ago – when Warner Bros. President Frank Wells came to me about doing Superman. So it could have happened. This was when they first started to think about making it. I was like, 'Superman? Nah, nah, that's not for me.' Not that there's anything wrong with it. It's for somebody, but not me."
Although the iconic actor was clearly not too keen on playing the DC superhero, he did reveal that he has nothing against those sorts of characters and said he was a big fan of a certain aquatic Marvel character when he was younger: "The Sub-Mariner, that’s the one I always liked. I had all of those comics when I was a kid."
Superman wasnt the only well known role he turned down though. I was also offered pretty good money to do James Bond if I would take on the role. This was after Sean Connery left. My lawyer represented the Broccolis and he came and said, ‘They would love to have you.’ But to me, well, that was somebody else’s gig. That’s Sean’s deal. It didn’t feel right for me to be doing it."
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