VMAN introduces the “Fall’s Most Wanted” VMAN55 Fall/Winter 2025 issue, featuring David Corenswet, as the forth of six cover stars.
Hot off the role of a lifetime, David Corenswet, our new Superman, sits down with Bradley Cooper for their first-ever meeting and uncovers a bevy of parallels. From Philly roots to a shared love of James Gunn, their conversation dives into careers and passions, proving that meeting your heroes isn’t so bad when you’re already Superman.
DAVID CORENSWET TALKS ABOUT HIS ACTING JOURNEY:
“This is such a segue, but I got into directing kind of in school, when I was getting interested in filmmaking. I just realized that directing you get so much more involved as a director than as the actor. Whereas in theater, as the actor, it’s kind of all up to you. And I was really frankly pissed off to see how good A Star is Born and Maestro are. I just think it’s insulting that you could make such great films as your first films, and it’s going to be really hard for the rest of us actors who eventually transition to directing to measure up. But that said, were you thinking about your father and his experience and your experience with him when you made Maestro? When I watched it, it made me think of my father, and I found that everybody I talked to who had lost their father found it to be deeply moving.”
DAVID CORENSWET REFLECTS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF HIS LONGEST SHOOT WITH SUPERMAN:
“At this point in my career, it always ends up evolving because I just have never worked on something long enough to know. This is the longest I’ve worked on something by a long shot, and just the most days that I’ve put into something. So it was my 1st experience, getting 4 months into a shoot and going like, ‘Where am I now? And who am I? And what did I feel like when we started? And I’ve still got 2 months to go.’”
DAVID CORENSWET ON NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES OF BOTH SIDES OF THE CAMERA:
“As an actor, I can’t determine whether my work is good or not. I’m delivering something to a director who then shepherds it to a final product. And as a director, you’re trusting an actor coming in to say the lines. You can tell them what to do, but they’re still a person, and if you handle them wrong, or not carefully, or you know you could screw them up, even if they’re a great actor. You could be the wrong director.”
Photography: Alvaro Beamud Cortés
Fashion: Christian Stroble
Creative Director/Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Gan
Interview: Bradley Cooper
Editor: Charlie Kolbrener
Grooming: Amy Komorowski
[Photo Credit: Alvaro Beamud Cortés for VMAN Magazine, Courtesy of VMAN Magazine]
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