Nicholas Hoult explains 2008 NME Awards to 'Superman' co-stars: "We got very drunk"

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'Superman' stars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan hear what their pal Nicholas Hoult got up to in his "indie phase" at the Shockwave NME Awards 2008, featuring Alex Turner, Kate Nash and Hoult's "helmet of hair".

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00:00Hi, I'm Alex from Enemy and today I'm joined by a very super trio, David Corenswett, Rachel

00:18Brosnahan and an old friend of Enemy, Nicholas Houck. How we doing guys? We good, how are you? So this

00:24Superman, as is James Gunn's way, has a lot of musical references in the film and my favorite

00:29is the fictional band, The Mighty Crabjoys. Did James give you any sort of backstory about

00:35them, tell you any more about the band? I mean, there's a whole history of them, I think.

00:39They've got a, their poster is in the film. They have a fully developed produced song that's

00:45in the film, from what I understand. Did he tell you anything about them as a band?

00:50That they're not very punk rock. They're like punk light. And that kind of fits into this

00:56sort of running gag in the film that Clark really wants to be punk rock. But he's definitely

01:01not. But in a way, I think what we're saying is that sometimes it's pretty punk rock to just

01:06be yourself. Exactly. And that you don't have to be the traditional idea of cool. To be punk

01:11rock in your own way. You're doing great, sweetie. Do you think you're more punk rock than Clark,

01:17David? Oh, definitely not. Definitely not. It would be hard to be less punk rock than I

01:22am David Cornspeth. I don't know. There's that I saw a viral video of you sort of doing like an

01:26entire Star Wars scene. I thought in its own way, knowing all that and being that much of

01:31a fan is quite punk rock really cool. I mean, listen, we'll take it we as we Star Wars nerds

01:36will take it. But also, it's a lot of pressure. Once once people start thinking of you as punk

01:41rock, and they start expecting punk rock, and then it's not even work, work, work.

01:44If you had to kind of pick out the three who was the most kind of punk rock and sort of the things

01:54they like sort of there, I think Nick. Yeah, just surprisingly cool and sort of anti. Well,

02:02you seem very, you know, yeah, I think so. Yeah. Um, like you just walk around your house with the

02:08middle finger up, you know? Yeah. Like myself. Yeah. Well, the dyed blonde hair, that's pretty,

02:13pretty punk, isn't it? This is pretty punk rock. Yeah. Go on. You're in your punk hair. I'm going to

02:17take it. Yeah. What we're saying is you're doing really well, Nick. Thanks. I don't feel it.

02:22That was a compliment there, so that you forgive me for the next bit. But in honour of our shared

02:26history, Enemy and Nicholas Saul. Yeah, I've been to the NME Awards. That's what I was going to say.

02:31I wanted to embarrass you. Oh, no. Well, I don't think it's embarrassing, but it probably is. Yeah.

02:35My life's pretty embarrassing. And take you down memory lane and ask you if you do remember going

02:42to the NME, uh, the 2008 Shockwave NME Awards. Oh, now that is pretty punk rock. Look at those

02:53bangs. Well styled. I've got, oh, I thought I had a beanie on. I don't. No, it's just a helmet of hair.

03:00It's giving fallout weight. Yeah. And it's also a good opportunity to explain a very British piece

03:06of Nordic culture. What are the NME Awards and maybe describe what they were like.

03:10I remember having a great time at the NME Awards. They're like, I feel like that was my

03:15big indie phase. Did you meet anyone cool that night?

03:18It was a great mix of bands that I was really into, um, and fun. And it was kind of at that

03:23moment in culture where it was saying you cut loose a little bit more. You know what I mean?

03:28Yeah. It's under less scrutiny. Yeah. So we went and probably got very drunk. No, no iPhones.

03:33Yeah, less of that. And you presented an award to Kate Nash. I did. Cool. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah.

03:38I was watching the video yesterday. You watching? Yeah, I did. Yeah. It's on YouTube. You can go

03:41on there. Yeah. Oh, I think in an interview, you also said you got to meet Alex Turner, maybe?

03:48Yeah, I think I did. I've got a photo actually of me and Alex Turner. I was a big, you know,

03:52Arctic Monkeys, the band Arctic Monkeys. They were like one of my favourite bands growing up

03:56and I got to meet Alex Turner, who's the lead singer. So that was very exciting.

03:59Well, yeah. That wasn't too embarrassing, was it? You know, I'll cry a little bit later.

04:04Want a copy of that before we leave, please? Oh, yeah.

04:07Definitely.

04:07Your choices. Your actions.

04:18What is an album that you always go back to, if I had to pick one?

04:28Tommy Dorsey's orchestra plays Hello Dolly.

04:33That was so fast.

04:34Yeah, that's my album that I go back to, my comfort album.

04:37I've never heard of it.

04:38Well, Hello Dolly is a musical and then this is an orchestral instrumental arrangement of,

04:44I don't know, half the song, three quarters of the songs from the musical. So it's sort

04:49of a big band jazz album. The song that my wife and I danced to at our wedding, our first

04:56dance is on that album.

04:57Oh, that's lovely.

04:58For me, it's probably, I actually can't remember the name of the album because there's a few

05:04that I go back to a lot. But Tallest Man on Earth has this album. It's whichever album

05:09has Lion's Heart on it.

05:11That kind of fits in the same era because there's a Noah and the Whale song in this Superman

05:15film, which I was really surprised at because I thought they were a very kind of British band

05:19and maybe that I shouldn't have underestimated James Gunn.

05:22Yeah, he's got an encyclopedia of Unique knowledge and great taste.

05:28Yeah.

05:29What about you, Nick?

05:30The album that's coming to mind is, my dad would listen to a lot when we were driving

05:34around the car when I was a kid, Queen, The Greatest Hits 2. So that album, I mean, it's

05:40difficult to say Greatest Hits album, but Greatest Hits 2. Not the first Greatest Hits,

05:46the second one.

05:46You're such a big fan that you know the second load.

05:48Well, that was just the one that was in the car on the cassette plumber. So yeah, that

05:54one.

05:55Was your dad a big Queen fan then?

05:56Yeah, yeah. So therefore I am too.

05:57Have you ever got to see them live?

05:58No, sadly not.

05:59I saw them with Adam Lambert. He was amazing. I was really, I mean, he's great, but I was

06:07really surprised. It feels like an impossible thing to step into. He was spectacular. Yeah,

06:13really special at Global Citizen Festival in New York a couple of years ago.

06:16Did you share a makeup trailer ever? Because there's always someone that sort of controls

06:19the music.

06:20Yeah, we did.

06:22Who was the guy on the orgs? You were so in the zone.

06:25When we were in there together, I feel like it was the like trio of makeup folks who set

06:29the music in there.

06:30Yeah. Yeah, it's their territory in a way. Do you have a music video?

06:34I think he would DJ sometimes. He had good music taste. And Matt, my makeup artist would

06:40sometimes DJ. Sometimes he would get quite, I feel like quite trancy and techno. Like

06:47I was like, I'm going on a real journey.

06:495am.

06:50That fits with Lex Luthor though. I feel like he would be like kind of just...

06:54Well, I was lucky that James had the Lex Luthor theme had already kind of been written.

06:59Really?

07:00John Murphy did a beautiful job with that. So I got to listen to that a lot before filming.

07:04And then James would play it on set. Which is interesting because I haven't had a piece

07:08of music like that before filming that then kind of triggers you in a moment there. So

07:13that was fun.

07:14And you've actually just triggered a memory to me. This year at Glastonbury, when they,

07:18I don't know if you know, they do this thing where they open the gates and you've got

07:21Divis's are there, the people who run the festival, and they kind of welcome people in.

07:25And this year they had a big kind of brass band that was playing the Superman theme.

07:29Oh, really? Really?

07:30I don't know whether it's part of a marketing thing, but...

07:32That's awesome.

07:33I'm surprised we haven't been sent that video. That's really cool.

07:35Look it up. It's really cool. Yeah.

07:36That's awesome.

07:37But thanks so much for chatting to me guys. My pleasure.

07:39Thank you very much.

07:41I cleaned your boots. I'll go get them for you.

07:43I cleaned them for you.

08:10You have a dog?

08:14You

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