This has been a big week for Superman fans, because just a few days ago, it was announced that David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan have been respectively cast as Clark Kent/Kal-El and Lois Lane in Superman: Legacy. Getting to play one of pop culture’s most famous superheroes would be a big deal for most actors, but it turns out that Corenswet has had his eye on the role for a long time. An interview from a few years ago has been making the rounds where he described getting to play Superman as a “pie-in-the-sky ambition” for him.
In November 2019, Corenswet was doing press for the first season of The Politician, the miniseries where he played River Barkley, the opponent of Ben Platt’s Payton Hobart for student body president. While speaking with EW back then, the actor pointed out that he’d been repeatedly told how much he looked like Henry Cavill, who by this point had appeared as Superman in Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the theatrical cut of Justice League. As Corenswet explained:
