{"id":37058,"date":"2025-07-04T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37058\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:46:10","slug":"james-gunn-reveals-why-nicholas-hoult-wasnt-cast-a-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37058\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Reveals Why Nicholas Hoult Wasn\u2019t Cast a Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s widely known that Nicholas Hoult<\/a> auditioned<\/a> to be James Gunn<\/a>\u2019s new Superman<\/a>, and the director is revealing why he lost out on the legendary part.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent appearance on Jake Hamilton\u2019s Jake Takes, Gunn admitted that the Nosferatu<\/a> star is \u201ca great actor\u201d but he merely \u201cdidn\u2019t fit the role\u201d of Clark Kent. The Guardians of the Galaxy director thought he was a bit too \u201ccontrolled\u201d for the part as opposed to David Corenswet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou know, Nick Hoult auditioned [for Superman<\/a>]. He\u2019s a great actor. I mean, some might say he\u2019s better than David in certain ways, but he just didn\u2019t fit the role, and that\u2019s why he didn\u2019t get that,\u201d Gunn said. \u201cAs much as you can transform yourself as a person, Nick was just more controlled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe DC Studios<\/a> boss further explained that Hoult took part in chemistry tests with other actresses who were up for the role of Lois Lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne of the things that we were also doing was mixing and matching Lois\u2019 and Clark\u2019s when we were auditioning them, and so I wanted to make sure that we had that chemistry right,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimately, he settled on casting Corenswet as Clark Kent\/Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois because of their opposite on-screen chemistry. Gunn clarified, \u201cDavid had better chemistry with Rachel [Brosnahan] because she\u2019s a very controlled actor, and David is a little bit more, you know, loose, and that creates a different type of dynamism on-screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was previously reported by THR<\/a> that Hoult was in talks to star in the next Superman. However, he ultimately joined Gunn\u2019s new DC universe as villain Lex Luthor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf their time going for the role, Hoult and Corenswet recalled when they crossed paths on-set while auditioning for the film on the same day during a recent appearance<\/a> on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI walked out of doing one of my audition scenes, and I was like, \u2018Yeah, not bad. OK,\u2019 And I walked around the corner, and there was lots of shadows on the studio lot and then one ray of sunshine,\u201d Hoult said. \u201cDavid had taken a seat in this ray of sunshine and was sitting there, charging up from the sun like Superman does, getting his power\u2026 And in that moment, whilst we were shaking hands, I was like, \u2018I\u2019d be happy if this guy was Superman. I was like, \u2018You\u2019re perfect for it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the interview, Hamilton asked Gunn what other actors who were up for the part lacked in comparison to the Twisters star. \u201cA lot of times casting is finding the right person for the right role,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, most people weren\u2019t doing anything wrong; they just didn\u2019t fit how I envisioned this Superman to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s widely known that Nicholas Hoult auditioned to be James Gunn\u2019s new Superman, and the director is revealing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,30144,171,956,30145,9180,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-37058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-david-corenswet","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-james-gunn","12":"tag-nicholas-hoult","13":"tag-superman","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114792915492278507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}