First Interview with Henry Cavill for ‘Superman’ Is Out

Zack Snyder (director) and Chris Nolan (producer) are preparing for the movie to cap all superhero movies of the next two years, as Entertainment Weekly puts it. The latest issue brings an interview with the man who will bring life to the Man of Steel, Henry Cavill.

Since the official announcement that he’d be wearing the Superman suit in almost no time, Cavill (whom fans may recognize from the hit series “The Tudors”) hasn’t said a peep about his new gig.

In the upcoming print issue of EW, he opens up about it, as the online preview can confirm. For starters, he reveals he didn’t even believe he stood a chance about getting the part.

It’s not that he doesn’t have enough confidence in himself, he explains for the mag but rather that he had lost a lot of weight (and his well-defined six pack) before he had to wear the Superman suit for the audition.

Cavill literally believed he wouldn’t make the cut, he reveals in the interview.

“All I could think was: Oh, god. They’re going to look at me and go ‘He’s not Superman. Not a chance’,” Cavill says of his first reaction after putting on a replica of Christopher Reeve’s iconic suit.

“The actor inside me was going: You’re not ready! You’re not ready!” the British star says.

Luckily, director Zack Snyder saw something more in Henry – something that he didn’t see himself: the ability to reboot a long-standing franchise that, until not long ago, was presumed dead and buried.

“If you can put on that suit and pull it off that’s an awesome achievement,” visionary director Snyder says for the same publication. Cavill delivered.

“Other actors put that suit on, and it’s a joke, even if they’re great actors. Henry put it on, and he exuded this kind of crazy-calm confidence that just made me go ‘Wow.’ Okay: This was Superman,’ Snyder adds.

“Superman” is scheduled to go into production soon and will arrive in US theaters in December 2012.