#Superman stars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan make playing their roles look effortless—on and off screen. Their smooth chemistry and mutual admiration were on full display during this new episode of Cosmo Challenge!
00:04I just wanted to get all that out of the way so you feel like obligated.
00:07So I don't feel like I have to say all those things. You're right.
00:09Well, now I have nothing.
00:15Hi, I'm Kate Sarmiento from Cosmopolitan, Philippines,
00:17and I want to welcome you to the Philippines again.
00:20Thank you very much.
00:21So my first question is for Rachel.
00:24How would you describe David as a co-star, as Clark Kent, and as Superman?
00:29Are you ready to take all these compliments about yourself?
00:32You just spat your little eye on it.
00:34You could say bad things too. I hate criticism very well.
00:37You do actually.
00:39No, one of the things I'm continually struck by is how much David embodies effortlessly.
00:47Clark, Superman, all the different versions of both of those characters.
00:52And I think, you know, I've heard David be asked what playing this character has brought to him.
00:57But truthfully, one of the things I'm the most excited about in terms of sharing this film with the world
01:03is for them to meet this generation's Superman.
01:07It's been such a privilege to watch David so effortlessly step into Superman's tall boots.
01:16Actually takes a lot of work to get into those boots.
01:18No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:20A shoehorn.
01:21Really?
01:22Yeah.
01:23There was a shoehorn?
01:24Tell me not.
01:25I wouldn't have known it because it felt effortless.
01:27But no, I mean, David's one of those people who somehow, I said this earlier, but has the ability to be radically present
01:33and make everybody feel like they're the only person in the room and also somehow have an eye 360 degrees around him on everything else.
01:42You just have this feeling being around David that if this light were to fall right now, that without breaking eye contact, you would catch it.
01:51I have absolutely no doubt, and if anyone could take this mantle of this person who has brought so much hope and goodness into the world,
02:01I think David's the person to do it.
02:06What's something about Gratia that surprised you when you started filming together?
02:10My striking beauty, eloquence, my weight.
02:20I hate surprises.
02:21And one thing that I found about Rachel was that she was extremely reliable.
02:28I was going to say predictable, but no, I wasn't going to say predictable.
02:31Reliable in a really comforting sense.
02:33There are a lot of things when you're making a movie that are unpredictable and go wrong or are just different from what you expected.
02:41Little things, big things, and I felt from the beginning.
02:44One thing that often happens is people get fed up with me.
02:49I wouldn't say I'm difficult, but I have quirks about me that can be stressful.
02:54I love to argue.
02:56But so, to have in you a scene partner and just a friend through the shooting process who I felt I could rely upon and was always going to be there for me
03:09and was going to give me space to do my weird things and was going to take the space that you needed to do your fun weird things,
03:17I never felt like I had to worry about you or what you were thinking about me.
03:21I felt like you were my, like we were partners in it, ultimately.
03:26Sort of against the forces that, you know, the slings and arrows that try to throw you off balance.
03:32And that was really, it's not always that way.
03:35And it was really great to have that, especially for this movie.
03:37In a really beautiful way, these movies can feel, I mean, they are so big.
03:42And something that I was so struck by from, from even the camera test,
03:47but from the first couple of days of shooting.
03:49You don't remember the camera test.
03:51I really don't.
03:52I really remember being like, hi, where are you from?
03:54And that's the end.
03:55And then I was back in New York.
03:57But is that it felt, in a really beautiful way, so small.
04:03And I feel like I felt exactly the same way.
04:07And I feel like we somehow found a way to keep it feeling very small.
