SUPERMAN star David Corenswet covers the latest issue of GQ Hype magazine photographed by Noua Unu Studio and styled by Spencer Phipps.
“A role like Superman seems like something that everybody would want, and that’s not true,” Corenswet reasons. “There are some people who wouldn’t want that role and who would, if given the opportunity, say no. I am obviously not one of those people. But I certainly tried to think of reasons not to.”
“Most great things in life come with tradeoffs, even if it’s just something like having a lot of trouble [dealing with] being recognizable in public,” he continues. “You can’t think about it in too much specific detail because you don’t know what it’ll really look like for you, or whether it’ll happen. Who knows?” he adds in a tone more hopeful than anyone fronting a movie with a nine-figure price tag should realistically be, “Maybe nobody will recognize me.”
“There are things you have to hit about Superman that are indelible to the character,” Corenswet says. “The things we’re aiming for are the things that are truest and therefore most interesting about Superman, the things that set him apart from other heroes. The fact that he is essentially free from angst and turmoil internally. He’s a good guy who had a great upbringing, loving parents, has wonderful relationships with his friends, and a romantic relationship, and loves what he does. He doesn’t have the Batman thing of having lost his parents early and doesn’t feel the burden of this terrible city that he has to come and save. Metropolis is a wonderful, cosmopolitan almost utopia—it just happens to get invaded by Kaijus and other monsters and whatnot every now and then.”
“I think that oftentimes people can see Superman as Pollyanna,” Gunn says. “They [say] ‘How can we make Superman cool?’ So if it’s the ’90s, they give him a mullet. But the thing is that he’s not cool. He’s kind. He loves little kids. He wants little kids to like him. I think it’s about owning that and being okay with that. It’s not trying to hippify him, you know?”
Photographs by Noua Unu Studio
Styled by Spencer Phipps
Grooming by Anna Bernabe
[Photo Credit: Noua Unu Studio for GQ Magazine]
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