Henry Cavill Weighs In On Man Of Steel Secrecy And 'Superman' Suit Criticism!

Henry Cavill Weighs In On Man Of Steel Secrecy And 'Superman' Suit Criticism!

In separate none-revealing interviews, in doing press for Immortals, actor Henry Cavill discussed Man Of Steel's secretive production, the director's visual style and more.

By DCMarvelFreshman - Nov 06, 2011 05:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Superman
Source: Daily News; Jam Showbiz; SFGate



Chatting with the press promoting this week's Immortals release, actor Henry Cavill expectedly discussed his leading 'Superman' role in Warner Bros.' highly-anticipated Man Of Steel reboot. Weighing in on potential criticism, set photos, keeping things confidential, and the "stylized" experience working with director Zack Snyder, read what Cavill says.

The British actor revealed to L.A.'s Daily News that the best thing about the Man Of Steel production is donning the iconic costume. However, when the first photos hit the web, he prepared himself for potential "haters."

"I block it out," he said. "You have to. Especially when it comes to whatever people want to say, and everyone's entitled to express their opinions. But you never know where an opinion's coming from or why it's coming in such a way. Sometimes it can affect you, certainly, so you have to be capable of taking everything with a pinch of salt. The nice stuff is nice. But it's like training. When you're training really, really hard and you're trying to achieve a certain look for your body, you look in the mirror and you ignore the good stuff because that's taken care of. It's only the stuff which you haven't quite got yet which you're panicking about. The same goes for any kind of Internet response or public response to a performance or the way I'm coming across."


Sitting in a separate interview with Jam Showbiz, Henry Cavill was questioned about thoughts on how recent set photos reveal, or rather hint at, details about the movie.

"Only so much you can do. You try to keep things private...As much as it does stimulate debate about what the plot is, I think it should be kept secret so it's exciting and new for people. Not so that they think, 'Oh, I saw so-and-so scratching their nose.' It removes you from the experience potentially. I quite like keeping the cards close to my chest."


And lastly, in another interview, now with SFGate, Cavill vaguely compared & contrasted the visual experience working with Zack Snyder & Immortals director Tarsem Singh.

"While Zack is very stylized; Tarsem is very artistic. Not to say Zack isn't artistic ... OK, watching that HDTV,"
he says, motioning to a screen in the room, "which is a masterwork in itself and seeing that painting on the wall, which is a masterwork in itself - they are both beautiful, they both affect you, and they are so entirely different. Like Zack is the TV and Tarsem the painting."




Man Of Steel, under Zack Snyder's direction, stars Henry Cavill (Clark Kent), Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Diane Lane (Martha Kent), Kevin Costner (Jonathan Kent), Michael Shannon (General Zod), Antje Traue (Faora), Julia Ormond (Lara Lor-Van), Russell Crowe (Jor-El), Harry Lennix (General Swanwick), with Christopher Meloni (Colonel Hardy) and Laurence Fishburne (Perry White). And while solid story details are currently being kept underwraps, the reboot releases on June 14, 2013!

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marvel72
marvel72 - 11/6/2011, 6:11 PM
i think this looks good at the moment,we need a decent superman movie.we haven't had anything decent superman related since superman 2,well apart from a couple of animated shows/movies.
blackscienceman
blackscienceman - 11/6/2011, 6:20 PM
yeah.. as much of a fanboy as i am.. some just SUUUUCK
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 6:25 PM
you know, i think it was ncreb who said he needed something to get excited about TDKR, well, I need something to get excited for MoS...
One2three
One2three - 11/6/2011, 6:26 PM
Can't [frick]ing wait for this. The Superman movie we deserve.
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 11/6/2011, 6:28 PM
I'm sort of with you there, rbfn04. I just don't feel like this is going to be the Superman movie I want. I'm open to their creative decisions, and hope to be surprised and blown away, but I'm not really excited for it right now.
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 6:30 PM
This is going to be much better than the Avengers. The Avengers is just a commercial film to raise a couple of big bucks. UNLESS they have the Hulk be the Hulk, and not just save him for the end. Like they did with the teaser! I know they'll have him transform only [frick]in' less than two times.
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 6:31 PM
@BIGBMH man, I really wanna come here and say I was wrong and this movie is awesome. I just don't share @One2ephu's enthusiasm.

I feel it will deviate TOO much from the source. Try to be like Batman too much. And that suit... UGH! That ish is ugly
Supes17
Supes17 - 11/6/2011, 6:33 PM
As history tells us, you can never satisfy the whiny fanboys
One2three
One2three - 11/6/2011, 6:37 PM
@rbfn04
We are promised lots of action, we know snyder can deliver. Snyder is a great director. The cast is amasing. Nolan is grandfathering. Whats not to be excited about beside the lack of promotional footage/pics/info. The best movies are often kept close to the chest until release. Look how much promo shit Green Lantern gave, and it was a failure. I got high hopes. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic, who knows.
SimyJo
SimyJo - 11/6/2011, 6:44 PM
@rbfn04 - wrong, sorry @rbfn04

Nolan WAS grandfathering, but he left a while ago to concentrate 100% on TDKR.
I just hope we are spared the worst excesses of Snyder slo-mo despite Nolan's departure.
mrHJK
mrHJK - 11/6/2011, 6:56 PM
I think I'm more excited for this movie than any other CBM right now (also most nervous about it)
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 6:58 PM
@One2 i know there will be action. honestly I expect more from a Superman movie ;)
One2three
One2three - 11/6/2011, 7:04 PM
@rbfn
Ya man, no shortage of it. We already know that theres a fight between Jor-el and Zodd for [frick] sakes. Including all the Superman/Zodd fight scenes. We know Snyder excells at filming action sequences.

Better than all the other Superman movies. Where Supes only throws a handfull of punches in horribly dated choreographed fights and spends most the movie power-less.
CuteAsian
CuteAsian - 11/6/2011, 7:05 PM
meh i'd rather they didn't change the suit, the new one's too alien-looking. Superman's suit should have a more humane touch about it, like the fact that it was made by his HUMAN mom.

On a totally unrelated note.... do check out my Spider-Man fanfic, The Human Spider Trilogy, for a mind-blowing new interpretation of the wall-crawler! Sorry for the shameless plugging :(
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 7:08 PM
Snyder WILL deliver. When it comes to using other's material he is one of the best. Maybe making up his own, kinda comes out just to be a 2 hour trailer film. And there's a lot of source material he has with the character Superman. So it will be the best. Remember when he directed Michael Jordan's Playground you guys, in the 90s. That VHS came out great.
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 7:10 PM
@One2 again, I want a good story with it. Close to the source material

@UserFlak that suit is poorly designed. Specially for Superman.

@TinyBirdCage yeah, the worst MJ video. Now, Jordan is killing the NBA...
BATMANx
BATMANx - 11/6/2011, 7:11 PM
These Fanboys are the ones that said Heath Ledger is Bad casting the joker and darknight will fail.. And look at the outcome..
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 7:14 PM
@UserFlak
Obviously this one isn't made by a human. I don't think were using source material from the 50s. It's going to need to look nothing like a suit with human touch.

On a totally unrelated note.... I like your choice for the shocker in the The Human Spider Trilogy.
BooYah
BooYah - 11/6/2011, 7:14 PM
Looking forward to this movie more then any other movie in 2013.
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 7:18 PM
@TinyBirdCage didn't know Secret Origins was written in the 50s...
One2three
One2three - 11/6/2011, 7:18 PM
@rbfn
All in all. I'm down for a great movie. Even if the source material is not followed to the letter. That being said, so far they seem to be sticking by the mythos. All important characters present and well casted. I'm sure Jonathan Nolan has laid down a clever script. With Chris Nolans idea of how to re-introduce Superman. I think we are all in for a ride!
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 7:19 PM
@rbfn04
It was a joke. That was his first big job as a director, so cut him some slack. Jordan to the Max was obviously the best. And you gotta wait to see his suit on film! Don't be certain with paparazzi pics?(rhetorical)
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 7:22 PM
@rbfn04
I just like the era, because James Dean ruled it over Brando. It wasn't the 50s....30s is the decade.
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 7:22 PM
@One2 Nolan is doing TDKR ;)

@TunyBirdCage I know it was a joke dude. I honestly ruined my MJ's Playground tape by watching it thousands and thousands of time, had no idea Snyderdirected it.

Still, the shittiest one. Air Time was the best dude. Air Time is a classic.

Sorry man, but that suit is just poorly designed. Specially for Supes.
One2three
One2three - 11/6/2011, 7:26 PM
@rbfn
Yes indeed he is. He was in fact the one who came to wb with an idea to re-introduce Superman was he not. He was assisting at the beginning. Thats all I said. Didn't say he was directing or nothing. ;)
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 7:27 PM
@rbfn04
Yeah you're right about Airtime. The battle against the Knicks was great and abusive dude. I love seein' Jordan at the top of his game. Especially with Drex. Michael should've just played Superman. I still think Snyder's way of filming will improve the way this suit looks very much.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 11/6/2011, 7:29 PM
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 7:29 PM
@One2 from what I understood he was very hands off with the project. he participated in the beggining, than gave Snyder carte blanche... I could be wrong, of course
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 7:30 PM
@TinyBirdCage he could play Superman AND Bizarro, since he changed his attitude from "if you can't turn a profit, sell the team" to "players, bail us out", lol.

MJ was amazing tho. GOAT
TinyBirdcage
TinyBirdcage - 11/6/2011, 7:30 PM
@GUNSMITH
I hate the way someone photo shopped that cape on him.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 11/6/2011, 7:45 PM
TO ME IT LOOKS SEAMLESS, THE DESIGN IS MORE OUTWORLDLY AND NOWADAYS IT SEEMS ADDING TEXTURE TO A PLAIN COSTUME MAKES IT IMPACT MORE VISUALLY, PLUS IT PICKS UP THE LIGHT AND SHADOW..SUPERMAN NEEDED A CHANGE FROM WHAT WE WERE USE TO, NOSTALGIC WASN'T WORKING.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 11/6/2011, 7:57 PM
WHAT CONCERNS ME IS THE NEW SCORE, THE SUPERMAN THEME SONG IS SO ICONIC..TO CHANGE IT IS TRICKY, IF IT DOESN'T SOUND THE SAME IN WAYS LIKE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE WILL BE QUICK TO ATTACK
YearOne
YearOne - 11/6/2011, 7:59 PM
I love it, haters are insane!
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 8:00 PM
yeah! how dare people not like what I like? buncha ahters *roll eyes*
JULEZ13
JULEZ13 - 11/6/2011, 8:08 PM
It's hard not to like Henry Cavill. He always knows the right things to say!

It took me a while to accept the change in the costume design. But I'm sure that it will eventually get changed back to the original as it always does.

As for the new score, @GUNSMITH: it will have to be completely different. I love the classic score and all but it is dated and this is a reboot. Everything should be changed. BUT, the score has to be as epic as the last. There's no reason why it shouldn't be. In order to change something it would have to better its predecessor in order to justify that change. I want a new score, but I will be HIGHLY upset if it isn't as great as the John Williams theme.
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 11/6/2011, 8:09 PM
I still don't like the suit and I'm curious as to how the suit will manifest itself when he goes from Clark Kent to Superman. The fake definition built-in bugs me, but hopefully the post production will take care of it.
rbfn04
rbfn04 - 11/6/2011, 8:10 PM
@JULEZ get outta here with dated. That shit is classic. Agree, they HAVE to go with a different song. But the original SUperman theme is a classic. Never dated. that shit rocks!!!
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