Who is David Corenswet? New Superman actor on journey to sky-high superhero
David Corenswet gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly in 2019 where he said his 'pie-in-the-sky ambition' was to play Superman.
At that point, the role was not on the market. And Corenswet, a graduate of the New York performing arts school Juilliard and a native of the US city of Philadelphia, was just making a name for himself in the industry, with roles in two Netflix series:
The Politician and
Hollywood
Tall, dark and, you know, handsome, he had been told that he looked like Superman for a long time. However, he did not, he says now, think that he was going to get the chance to play him.
But a few years later, he was cast to lead
James Gunn's Superman , which will begin a new, hopefully high-flying era for the DC universe of films. It caused that once innocent quote to take on a life of its own.
David Corenswet in a still from Superman (2025). Photo: TNS
Many headlines and stories misinterpreted the phrase and wrote that he said it was his dream role, as though he had manifested it into existence.
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