2012 Movie News Archives

September 24, 2012: Henry Cavill Interview

Man of Steel Poster MediaGeekNetwork.com sat down with Henry Cavill back when he was promoting the release of "Immortals" and still in the middle of production on "Man of Steel", and asked him about playing characters like Theseus and Superman. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    Q: The character of Superman is often criticized for being the big blue boy scout and very tough to make interesting. What is your feeling when you hear that sort of thing?

    HENRY CAVILL: I don't think people know the character well enough. He's a very interesting character. Because he's always trying to do the right thing, doesn't necessarily make him boring. He's conflicted in his own ways and I'm speaking strictly just from source material when it comes from the comic books. What he has to go through is enormously difficult and if people just really think what it would be like, you'd realize that there's a lot more to him than being a good guy. A lot more. There's a lot to the man. When people say it's tough to make him interesting, they just need to read some of the right stuff and they'll see there's a lot of very interesting things going on in that guy's head.

    Q: Rather than just playing a role in a movie, is there a different feeling when you find yourself part of this 70 plus year history of this character?

    HENRY CAVILL: It's a wonderful feeling and there's certainly an aspect of it that could be an enormous amount of pressure which could end up affecting me, but I try and focus more on the honor of it and the excitement of being the person who was chosen to take up the mantle. It's a wonderful opportunity, it's exciting, and it's so much fun [laughs].

Read the entire interview at MediaGeekNetwork.com.



2012 Movie News

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