At the 'Superman' premiere, Beck Bennett chats with THR on the red carpet and reveals what this character kept at his desk during filming. Plus, he talks about how working on SNL helped him prepare for working on the large-scale set of 'Superman.'
00:00I hadn't seen you before I'd seen the film, and we discussed the Lombard of it all.
00:05Lombard. Lombard, yes.
00:06I think we landed on Lombard. Lombard, yes.
00:08But I didn't get to see your desk in the film, so I've been wondering since,
00:11what would we expect to find at that desk if we got like an hour or two to pilfer?
00:15I mean, I'm carrying a lot of it in the film.
00:17If you've seen my character poster, I've got 100 puzzles to take with you anywhere,
00:23a little globe that has a golf tee and a golf ball, and you try to get the golf ball on the tee.
00:29I got some photos of sports moments.
00:33I got my glove, my baseball glove and baseball from when I played college baseball.
00:42I was about to say basketball.
00:44A lot of little, like, knickknacks.
00:46The peaks in high school getaway kid.
00:48Yeah, yeah, exactly, 100%.
00:50And he's got a lot of little things to keep him busy, to procrastinate, not do work, you know, that sort of thing.
00:55I mean, naturally, how did I distract myself best?
00:58Yeah, yeah.
00:59But I expect there's not a ton of books, but if there were books, I expect a couple Goosebumps.
01:02If there were Goosebumps, what volumes?
01:05One and two.
01:08The puppet one, the puppet guy Goosebumps.
01:12I loved Goosebumps growing up, honestly.
01:14We talked to you guys about Goosebumps.
01:16Oh, dude, it spoke to my millennial heart.
01:18Yeah.
01:19You know, see, now I'm embarrassed that I can't come up with any, but the puppet.
01:23The puppet.
01:24The puppet.
01:25The puppet.
01:26He's the mascot of it all.
01:27Last question for you.
01:28In the world of Superman, we talked a bit about the SNL set preparing you for the physicality and the sheer volume of how much is going to change.
01:33When you're in the Daily Planet, that's an active, moving set.
01:35Did the newsroom feel more like the set of SNL than you expected when you were actually filming?
01:40You know, a little bit, yeah, because it was just like a lot of, just a lot of movement.
01:45I mean, to some degree, at the same time, I'm like, there were no cue cards.
01:49Sure.
01:50You know what I mean?
01:51A little bit more time.
01:52Cue cards, and you're so locked into reading those cards.
01:54So it was honestly, you know, I gotta say, I think it was the opposite.
01:57Okay.
01:58It was just like, you're running back and forth, and it was like, because SNL, you're really constricted.
02:02Yeah.
02:03But it did, the pressure of SNL helped me with the pressure of that first big scene, I would say.
02:08That makes sense.
02:09But the nature of the two sets were very different.
02:12If you still had Brando, there'd be cue cards, but the game has changed in Superman.
