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DAVID CORENSWET: That’s amazing. The three of us have a big sequence where it’s k ind of just the three of us and we were in a dark pit of despair for, I don’t know, two week s, it felt like forever, in the best way. Anthony’s the k ind of actor who can give an incredible per formance. And you just k now. I ’m lying on the floor look ing up at him, Nick ’s standing over there watching him, you just know it’s deep and heartbreak ing and a little scary. And then they say ‘cut’ and he says, ‘What do you guys think ? Was that good?’
NICHOLAS HOULT: Also, the lovely thing through all of that, we had an ongoing game of Fark le, the dice game, the three of us. The dice game where you have to roll f ives and ones, right?
DAVID CORENSWET: I forget, you’re going to have to teach me again.
NICHOLAS HOULT: I’m pretty sure it’s f ives and ones and you score dif ferent points depending on what you keep and roll, etc. You were very good at it!
So it looks like you guys get on well off-set, but tell us about the rivalry on-set, were you mean to each other ?
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NICHOLAS HOULT: No, the wonder ful thing about work ing with David is that he’s very collaborative. We were look ing at break ing apar t scenes in terms of you want the best for everyone that’s in the scene, because otherwise it’s not going to work . And how you work [to David], you really like to break things apart and then put them back together and make sure everything is work ing as it should, which is a fun way for me to work as well because I just panic and go out there and do stuf f [laughs] and I don’t have as much thought about what the ef fects of it will be. So it’s good for me to slow down and learn f rom David in that sense.
DAVID CORENSWET: I’ve been descr ibing how Nick work s as ‘reck less’. He brings a reck less abandon, specifically to Lex. I’ve only seen him work on one other thing. I got to visit his set, I think in 2016, I came and visited you on ‘Rebel in the Rye’. I didn’t say ‘Hello’ because I didn’t k now him. He didn’t k now I was watching but I was at the monitor s watching and I watched him do a scene, his coverage, and I thought at the same time, ‘ I can see what he’s doing’, like I get what he’s doing but at the same time, it work s, he’s knows what he’s doing. So, actually, I’ve looked up to your process for a long time. And then with Lex, it was a lot of discovery with James [Gunn] as we showed up. I know you had a lot of conversations ahead of time but James didn’t really know what he wanted either and so there was a wide range of possibilities that showed up in the f irst couple of weeks of filming. And you [to Nick ] went to all of them. There’s cer tainly some footage of you dancing as Lex. I’m not sure if it ends up in the movie, but it sexists.
NICHOLAS HOULT: Yeah, there’s definitely some dancing and weird stuf f. But honestly, I black out most of the time, so I don’t remember a thing.
Anthony Carrigan (Metamorpho) also said he blacked out on set, he said he wakes up and the scene is done?
DAVID CORENSWSET: No, I was bad! I think I won the f ir st round and then could never win again. I ’m that k ind of person who is happy to show up to a game again and again but I k ind of play the per son who is bad at it and makes other people feel better by winning.
How very Clark Kent of you! so you both have artistic backgrounds, david, your father was a stage actor at one point and nick, your mother was a piano teacher and you have a great aunt who was an actor. Was there something you saw when you were a kid that made you think – ‘that’s what i want to do’?
DAVID CORENSWET: Specific to Superman? Or just general?
DAVID CORENSWET: Because I think we both watched ‘ Smallv ille’ growing up. That was like one of the f ir st big Superman things. For me, it was ‘Star Wars’. Being a Jedi was my dream.
NICHOLAS HOULT: I ’m not sure entirely but I remember watching ‘Robin Hood: Men in Tights’ a lot [laughs].
DAVID CORENSWET: That explains so much!
NICHOLAS HOULT: And ‘The Mask ’, a lot, that was a favour ite of mine. Also, that movie ‘Seven Br ides for Seven Brothers’ – apparently, I watched that repeatedly one day, over and over again.
Superman and Lex Luthor are iconic figures that have so many iterations – which ones did you two pick out particularly to influence your portrayals?
DAVID CORENSWET: When I got the audition, I watched each big-screen iteration. I t was a fun little marathon one af ternoon, where I watched the Chr is Reeve/Richard Donner one, I watched the Brandon Routh ones, ‘Superman Returns’, which was the f irst one I saw in theatres. And then I watched Henry Cavill in ‘Man of Steel’. Yeah, it’s amazing
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