Islamabad (Web-Desk): “He’s a great actor. I mean, some might say he’s better than David in certain ways, but he just didn’t fit the role, and that’s why he didn’t get that,” the director said of Hoult, who plays Lex Luthor in the new movie.
It’s widely known that Nicholas Hoult auditioned to be James Gunn’s new Superman, and the director is revealing why he lost out on the legendary part.
During a recent appearance on Jake Hamilton’s Jake Takes, Gunn admitted that the Nosferatu star is “a great actor” but he merely “didn’t fit the role” of Clark Kent. The Guardians of the Galaxy director thought he was a bit too “controlled” for the part as opposed to David Corenswet.
“You know, Nick Hoult auditioned [for Superman]. He’s a great actor. I mean, some might say he’s better than David in certain ways, but he just didn’t fit the role, and that’s why he didn’t get that,” Gunn said. “As much as you can transform yourself as a person, Nick was just more controlled.”
“One of the things that we were also doing was mixing and matching Lois’ and Clark’s when we were auditioning them, and so I wanted to make sure that we had that chemistry right,” he said. “And the truth is, Nick, who is a more controlled actor, had really good chemistry with another Lois that was less controlled, so they were opposites.”
Ultimately, he settled on casting Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois because of their opposite on-screen chemistry. Gunn clarified, “David had better chemistry with Rachel [Brosnahan] because she’s a very controlled actor, and David is a little bit more, you know, loose, and that creates a different type of dynamism on-screen.”
