VARIETY ‘Actors on Actors’: Jonathan Bailey and David Corenswet on SUPERMAN, WICKED: FOR GOOD, and More

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In a new conversation for VARIETY’s “Actors on Actors” issue, Jonathan Bailey and David Corenswet discuss People’s ‘The Sexiest Man Alive’ crown that Bailey currently wears, SUPERMAN casting, sharing a trainer, WICKED: FOR GOOD, and more. 

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Corenswet and Bailey on Bailey’s being named People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ and flying:

Corenswet: Let me ask you this. Sexiest Man Alive. Where do you go from here?

Bailey: No. Okay. [Laughing nervously, he turns to the director and gestures to cut.] It was so lovely to chat. OK.

Corenswet: “Wicked: For Good” is fucking fantastic. You fly in this movie.

Bailey: We both kiss levitating!

Corenswet: Yes. But you have the bigger challenge. As the man, and as Sexy Man — and that’s not me saying that — which magazine does Sexiest Man Alive?

Bailey: All of them. Horse & Hound.

Corenswet: Anyway, Sexiest Man Alive, you are carried by Cynthia. She’s levitating you. Every man out there would think there’s no way you can look masculine and powerful and in control when you’re being levitated by a woman. And you, in that moment when she’s lifting you by your fucking massive arms, maintained your masculinity. Well done, mate. Because it’s a lot easier when you’re carrying the girl.

Corenswet and Bailey on Corenswet’s “Superman” casting:

Bailey: When you get the call for “Superman” — presumably no one’s ever mentioned that to you before in your life, because that was a wild casting against type — must’ve been crazy.

Corenswet: Well, when I got the audition, I was standing on a ladder changing a light fixture. My agent said, “We think you know what this is about.” I said, “Is it ‘Top Gun 3’? What am I waiting for?” I really was not expecting it, although I think other people thought that I should be expecting it. Just statistically speaking, it feels completely impossible.

Corenswet and Bailey on sharing a trainer:

Bailey: We’ve actually trained with the same physical trainer, Paolo.

Corenswet: I forgot we have Paolo in common. Love you, Paolo!

Bailey: If you think about your — forgive me. I assume your body wasn’t — I mean, maybe you were born Superman?

Corenswet: No, no, no. I was what one of my high school crushes very unaffectionately described as a string bean.

Bailey: Some people are Popeye, and some people are Olive Oyl.

Corenswet: And I was Olive Oyl. So yeah, I put on 40 pounds with Paolo.

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