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The cast of “Superman” (Rachel Brosnahan, David Corenswet, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Beck Bennett, Skyler Gisondo, Wendell Pierce, Mikaela Hoover, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, María Gabriela De Faría and Sara Sampaio) joined the head of DC Studios, writer/director James Gunn, to dish on Supes’ latest stint on the big screen! Watch them join CinemaBlend to discuss why David Corenswet is too pure for this world, who would be in their ideal future Justice League, why James Gunn keeps casting his friends, and much, much more.
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00:00You've made some frequent implications that David is too pure for this world.
00:04Oh, you're too pure for this.
00:06Hi, you said that right to my face.
00:07I know I did, and I meant it with my whole heart.
00:11Hey, buddy, eyes up here.
00:19Do you think that's the truth of the matter,
00:21or is it just that you're super edgy by comparison?
00:23I'm so edgy. The most edgy anyone's ever been, actually.
00:27I've redefined the edge in the Oxford English Dictionary.
00:30In this way, we are born for these characters, I suppose.
00:33We have a-
00:34Finish each other's sentences.
00:36Oh, sorry. I thought you were going to say finish each other's sentences.
00:37Yeah, definitely. We finish each other's sentences.
00:39What's next for the Justice Gang?
00:41And I think we should start with Anthony, since you're the newest member.
00:43Uh, wow. I mean, well, honestly, um, just, just happy to be here and, and, uh,
00:50continuing to, to, to fit in. Um, and, uh, yeah, just, you know, thanks.
00:58I don't think, I don't think, uh, what's next for the Justice Gang is up to us.
01:01It's about what's happening in the world that we need to solve.
01:05Yeah.
01:05So I would like to do more films with James. That's all. Whatever, whatever that means.
01:11I think we, in this film, I think we see the Justice Gang dealing with some, like, you know,
01:16gigantic physical threats. I would love to see them have to deal with some kind of mystery.
01:21You know, some detective work, but I have to kind of see.
01:24Love a mystery.
01:25The streets.
01:26Like a Knives Out kind of ensemble mystery.
01:29Uh, I want to start off by talking about Beck like he's not here for a second.
01:32Absolutely.
01:33I feel like that's comfortable for me.
01:35Uh, a recent report appeared online, uh, implying that Beck Bennett was the most
01:41well-liked person in 30 Rock. I'm wondering if that, uh, energy transferred to set or if that
01:47whole report was a bunch of bullshit. Yeah, no, it did really transfer to set.
01:51Everybody really loved me. And yeah, they said incredible things about me the whole time.
01:56There we go.
01:58Beck is so well-liked that our, our group chat, uh, the Superman group chat, what it,
02:03what is the full name of it?
02:04It's Superman gang dot, dot, dot, even Beck.
02:06Even Beck, that's it, that's it.
02:08Which of course is a testament to how much we all love him and how much he means to all
02:12of us.
02:12That's very sweet.
02:13Most offensive guy in the world.
02:15I just love to be included.
02:17I just love that I'm there.
02:19When you're at the bottom of the pecking order,
02:20it secretly means that everyone just adores you.
02:22I, yeah, that's where, and that's where I like to be.
02:24Yeah.
02:25Yeah, you know, the expectation, keep expectations low.
02:28You're crushing it.
02:30I quite liked the, like, DC studios intro being so simple and unassuming.
02:37You know what I mean?
02:38Was that intentional?
02:39Was there a lot of thought that went into that?
02:40And was anyone pushing for this big animated Marvel-esque kind of thing?
02:43Peter Safran is too cheap to, to push for a big animated, uh,
02:47Marvel-esque thing.
02:48And I remember we talked to one of our marketing guys at the beginning and we're saying we want
02:53a new intro and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
02:55And he said, okay, well, it's going to cost about $2 million and this and that.
02:58I'm like, we're not going to spend $2 million on that.
03:01I got a, I got a CGI dog I want to make.
03:04So, uh, but I like that.
03:06I do like the simplicity and elegance of it.
03:08I did find sometimes, um, with other things I've had to deal with it just with both at DC and
03:15Marvel,
03:15they were both so long that it, it almost became too much a part of the movie itself,
03:21as opposed to just being the stamp on it.
03:23And sometimes it worked really well, but sometimes it didn't, it seemed to be too unwieldy.
03:28Do you have, uh, like in your inner monologue, is there a voice for Krypto?
03:31What does, what does Krypto sound like?
03:33I think my dog Ira's, uh, voice sort of has become my voice for most dogs,
03:38unless it's entirely inappropriate.
03:39So I bet if I were to think about Krypto's voice.
03:43What's Ira's voice?
03:44Um, hey guys, I'm just, uh, here to hang out and, uh, do some, help out a little bit,
03:50to give some notes.
03:51James asked me just to give some notes about, you know,
03:54the number of squirrels and treats in this movie is a little bit low, so.
03:57He's like vaguely Swedish, but also giving the Californians.
04:00We're not sure where he's from, but he definitely was raised in Philadelphia.
04:03We're, we're going to cast our Justice League, all right?
04:06First round pick for your Justice League.
04:09Who are we going with?
04:10Martian Manhunter.
04:11Hey!
04:12I'm going to, I'm going to put my vote in for Batman.
04:14I cannot wait to see who, what, I can't, I want to see what it's like.
04:21I love Batman.
04:22What would your dynamic be like with Batman?
04:24Uh, Batman actually, in the comics, punches, knocks guy out.
04:28That sounds.
04:29One punch to the face.
04:30That sounds right.
04:30I would love to play that scene.
04:33Uh, Plastic Man.
04:34Oh, that's a good one.
04:35Oh, that's a good one.
04:35That's a deep cut.
04:37That's good.
04:37Wow, that's a elemental cut.
04:39I think I need another woman.
04:41That's fair.
04:42Any more women on there?
04:43One woman?
04:43I would love for Wonder Woman to be here.
04:46I feel like Hawkgirl and Raven would get along really well.
04:48Um, just similar vibes, similar goth punk vibes.
04:52Dead Man, I want to see Dead Man too.
04:54She's got a great outfit.
04:55A great outfit.
04:56Metamorphone Dead Man, just a couple pasty white bald heads.
04:59Yeah.
05:01We know that everyone loves Jimmy Olsen, you know, especially the ladies.
05:04But what's Jimmy's dream girl?
05:07I think Jimmy's dream girl we were talking about yesterday might be on the other end of the row over
05:13here.
05:13And it might be, it might be, right?
05:16When were you talking about that?
05:18Yesterday, isn't that in the, in the comics, Jimmy is, uh, might have somewhat of a workplace crush on Cat.
05:26He likes cougars.
05:27He might like older women.
05:28Yes.
05:29Calm down, Steve.
05:32Steve's not too happy about that.
05:34Everybody's leaving Steve behind.
05:36Steve's not feeling too good about that.
05:38So there's a love triangle going on here.
05:41There could be.
05:42We keep pitching that.
05:43We keep getting shut down.
05:44Every day we're calling James.
05:45We're like, I think you guys, I think there's something here.
05:47I think we, we, we all, all these big ideas.
05:50Rumble has been thrown around.
05:53We're going to keep pushing it.
05:55And I love it because it's all good copy.
05:57Are you saying there's already talks about a sequel?
06:00I am actually saying that.
06:02Yes, there is a sequel in the works, uh, called Cat and Steve.
06:07Not allowed to say much more about it, but it's really,
06:10it's a, it's a, it's a, it's like really intense.
06:15I cleaned your boots.
06:17I'll go get them for you.
06:24At what point did you know that you were born to play Lois Lane?
06:29I, I still share a healthy amount of insecurity about this.
06:33We haven't seen the movie.
06:34We're waiting.
06:35I mean, we're waiting to see it with everyone at the world premiere here in LA on the 7th.
06:39We're all, David, Nick, and I are all going to hold hands and experience it together.
06:44No, Nick's already seen the movie.
06:45Um, I, I, it's, I'm a little afraid when people say that.
06:49Answer the question, Rachel.
06:50When did you know for a fact that you were born to play this role?
06:53I don't know.
06:54I still don't know.
06:55But I, but we appreciate people asking questions like that and that you liked it.
07:00Yeah, it's great if people get that.
07:01And that you believed it.
07:02Yeah.
07:02If people get that feeling about, about us and these characters, that's, that's amazing.
07:06Yeah.
07:06I thought that, uh, uh, Mr. Terrific's, uh, epic fight sequence, it felt Yondu-esque.
07:11Was that intentional?
07:12I think he is Yondu-esque.
07:14You know, I always really liked Yondu, Yondu super, you're the first person to bring it up,
07:17but it's totally true.
07:18I always liked Yondu's superpower that he was able to use this thing to, you know, it's, it's so different.
07:24It says he has this other object which you can whistle and, and with, um, with Mr. Terrific,
07:28he's able to use the T-spheres through a series of hand signals and get them to do all these
07:33different cool things.
07:35Nathan, you've worked with James a lot.
07:37This is true.
07:37This whole cast is funny as hell, dude.
07:40Why do you think that he casts that way?
07:42James has the ability to, uh, first of all, he wants to work with people that he wants to hang
07:46out with
07:46for months at a time.
07:48If you're going to be around, he wants to make sure you're, you're going to be cool.
07:52So he has a process by which he actually, he vets people.
07:56He doesn't want to hire a jerk.
07:58And on top of that, if you're going to be good at comedy, you have to be able to be
08:03honest and sincere.
08:04And that's what actually makes dramatic acting so good as well.
08:07So I think you can be a great dramatic actor and not very good comedically,
08:12because comedic, comedy takes timing.
08:15Comedy takes... timing.
08:18See?
08:19Yeah, that's it.
08:21It's like we're not only friends, we're actually super friends.
08:25Thank you, guys.
08:28I can't.
08:30Catching on.
08:33It's catching on.
08:34It's catching on like the plague.
08:37They didn't seem to enjoy that joke.
08:39No, they hate it.
08:41I don't.
08:43No, you, you endorse.
08:45I endorse.
08:47I like to just enable it.
08:48I like to just enable it.
08:49Because he's so funny and magnetic and just like charming and his comedic timing is so on that he, I
09:02think he likes that banter between his actors and his friends.
09:07It's just, it's personality.
09:09Yeah, he's really funny.
09:10And he also loves to laugh.
09:12Loves.
09:12He loves to give it up.
09:14He's the greatest laugh.
09:14And fill a room with like just, yeah, he's just, and he kind of, he's open to everybody on set,
09:21really.
09:21He's like, he just loves, you know, that to be, to enter, to be entertained and to entertain.
09:28And he loves to get as much out of, you know, the scenes as possible, I think.
09:32You have great comedic timing.
09:34Oh, thank you.
09:35You are very funny, by the way.
09:38That's something that we all say about you.
09:40So, yeah, I'm going to answer for her, but you answer as well, please.
09:45Say more.
09:46Say more.
09:47I'm like blushing.
09:49She's out of words.
09:51What was the question again?
09:53Do you have a favorite ridiculous line that you have to deliver?
09:56She just had so many great.
09:57Ultraman, you did so good.
09:58That was, that was, yeah.
10:00That was so good.
10:01I was like, Ultraman, you did so good.
10:03And that, that was like, I remember saying that, the, and the table read and everyone laughed.
10:09And I'm like, yes.
10:11So, yeah.
10:12You're such a natural, man.
10:14Oh, thank you.
10:16Engineer has a different kind of energy.
10:17Oh, God.
10:18Yes.
10:18She's not funny at all.
10:19I'm sure you're going to get this a lot today.
10:21But in the comics, she is often a hero, you know?
10:23She is.
10:24She is.
10:25So, uh, was that something...
10:28It's just who she is in this, in, in, in this story.
10:31She just happens to be teaming up with the wrong person, but for the right reasons.
10:36She does want to change the world and make it better.
10:39She is deeply affected by the path the world has taken, has been hurt so much as a child.
10:44Her parents, you know, were killed in a violent accident and, and she needs to change.
10:48So, she sees and lacks the tool to make that happen.
10:52And at the beginning, she does believe in him.
10:54He has, you know, very good reasons to do what he does.
10:57And she starts to, to, to realize he's not, he's not the best person to do that and to team
11:04up with.
11:04But she's too deep into it now.
11:06And he came back out.
11:08Like, this might be the most evil villain I've seen in a superhero movie ever.
11:13I'll be honest.
11:14I don't think he's, I don't think he's that bad in comparison.
11:17I mean, I think he has a point of view.
11:18I mean, I think, for instance, I think, uh, Chuck Woody's character, the high evolutionary in Guardians 3, he's, he's
11:25way worse than, than, um, he's not really.
11:29But I think that Lex is, he's really bad in sort of a real way.
11:35He is, you know, the boss that you have that on the one hand is so charming and, you know,
11:40he's giving the guys back rubs and he's all, you know, his total dude bro.
11:44And then just switches on a dime when he gets upset and throws pencils at you and screams.
11:50And he's just that sort of basic, like, you know, egomaniacal, narcissistic, like, uh, you know, guy that, that I,
11:59I can believe in, but I understand his point of view towards Superman.
12:03I mean, he, he was the greatest man in the world.
12:07He was the smartest person in the world.
12:09Everybody thought he was the greatest, even though there were other metahumans in the world, he was the greatest guy
12:14in the world.
12:14And then all of a sudden this guy comes along in this silly costume and this charming grin and this
12:18great jaw and he's second best and he's forgotten and he hates it.
12:23And so he's sort of taken his envy and rationalized that he's protecting everyone with this.
12:28He's, uh, saving humanity.
12:30Um, so it, you know, I, I, I, I, I get him, I get Lex, I understand.
12:36Are we seeing him up against some legitimate baddies?
12:39Are we about to realize like, well, maybe he's not that bad.
12:41I mean, I think we're going to see more of Lex.
12:44That's for sure.
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