According to David Corenswet, getting in and out of the Superman suit isn’t super easy.
Talking with PEOPLE about what it was like to wear the iconic Man of Steel costume, Corewnswet gets candid. “There are lots of zippers, but there’s no single zipper that allows me to go to the bathroom, which you would think would be quite straightforward,” he says.
“But nothing is straightforward about these things. I mean, we talked about it and we tried and it was not worth the costs that came with it,” adds the star of director James Gunn ‘s Superman, in theaters July 11.
Asked if that was torture for him, Corenswet says “not at all.”
“I never had an issue with that. I had the most amazing dresser you could ask for, Scotty, who was sort of like a, I don’t know, he felt like a mob fixer. He was always in my ear going, ‘Do you need a break? Do you need a break? Tell ‘em you need a break and we can step you out. I’ll tell him it’s me,’ ” he says.
“He would make excuses for me if I needed, and we got very good together at getting in and out of the suit, so he would do it quite quickly, and I could take breaks if I needed to over the course of a day,” says Corenswet.
The actor recalls the first time he put on the suit after getting cast in the role. “It was very underwhelming. It was in pieces. The S wasn’t even on yet. It was really just about the blue tights,” says Corenswet, who packed on around 40 pounds of muscle to play the superhero.
“It was quite snug because they had made it to my proportions when I screen-tested where I weighed about 195 pounds, and when I walked in for my first costume fitting, I weighed about a 235, 240 pounds,” he says.
“You hear actors who play superheroes talking about squeezing into the suits. I got kind of claustrophobic in the suit the first time just being constricted in all those places at the same time,” he says, calling it an “intense experience.”
Corenswet was announced as the star of Superman in 2023 after he beat out several other names including Patrick Schwarzenegger and Nicholas Hoult (who was since cast as Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor).
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan plays Daily Planet reporter and love interest Lois Lane for Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent.
She and Corenswet bonded after they were both cast. “I think James felt like the relationship between Clark and Lois was integral to the heart of the story and the success of the movie, and so we spent a lot of time talking through those scenes and talking about our characters and our relationship.”
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