"Superman" star David Corenswet says audiences are going to want to see James Gunn's new film over and over again. The 31-year-old American actor plays Clark Kent in the latest take on the red-caped superhero. Rachel Brosnahan plays his love interest, Lois Lane. She says she found her character by watching older "Superman" films and reading comics, and also by talking with real-life journalists.
00:00Ultimately, what people want is they want to be moved, they want to feel things, they want to see amazing visuals on the screen.
00:07And ultimately, what I want out of a movie like that is I want to get to the end and think when the lights come up,
00:14like, just let the lights go back down, let's start all over, I want to go on this ride again.
00:17And I think James has done that with this film.
00:22Everything that I have heard is people saying, I can't wait to go and see it again.
00:25Because the Easter eggs are great and the twists are great, but even knowing how the story ends,
00:33it's the journey that really is the valuable thing.
00:36And that's always how I felt about movies was, like, the great films that I want to go back and re-watch again and again and again.
00:42It's not for any reason other than I love how I feel during those two hours and I love how I feel coming out of those two hours.
00:50James pointed me towards a number of comics to look at.
00:53I was already familiar with the Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder's Superman films.
00:58But I was just looking to understand on a deeper level and to try to find something that sparked a way in for me.
01:05And that came from speaking to investigative journalists, just understanding what they did all day and what drove them to keep going.
01:12You know, I remember talking to one who told me that, of course, like, everybody wants to make an impact on the world around them with their journalism.
01:20But if that's the only thing you're doing it for, you're not going to be able to stick it out.
01:25Because you spend all this time and energy writing a story sometimes and it just doesn't reach the people you hope it does or make the difference you hope.
01:32And the opposite can be true, too.
01:34Sometimes the thing you least expect can make an impact.
01:37But there has to be something else driving you.
01:39And I was really drawn to the competitive nature of a number of people I spoke to, the kind of desire to throw themselves into the center of the action, the vices that, you know, that they engage with.
01:54Um, and yeah, it was, it was a, it was a really, it was such a fun experience to build an iconic character that was familiar and felt familiar to me, but to find a new way in.
02:07You'd let me interview you as Superman.
02:10Sure.
02:15Ready?
02:16Let's do it, Cronkite.
02:19Superman.
02:19I think James's intentional focus on the importance of journalism and journalistic integrity in this film, uh, is potentially more important now than it has been.
02:35And one of the joys of stepping into this has been understanding in a deeper way what you all do and the ways in which you put yourselves on the line in pursuit of the truth.
02:45And, um, and it's been an honor to step into that.
