For all the wildly varying opinions that audiences had about Ezra Miller’s The Flash and its multiversal shenanigans, I still can’t believe that it’s the movie that finally delivered Nicolas Cage’s first live-action Superman appearance. The gobsmacking cameo came during the superhero movie’s world-smashing climax, with a giant eight-legged reference to Tim Burton’s unproduced Superman Lives feature. Cage previously addressed his joy in finally donning the Man of Steel’s emblem, but has now opened up about the actual process, revealing there weren’t any giant spiders involved in conversations during filming.
Though a number of The Flash viewers believed Nicolas Cage’s cameo to have been birthed entirely through CGI, possibly with A.I. assistance, the Dream Scenario actor confirmed he was indeed physically present within the Superman suit, and had nothing but compliments for director Andy Muschietti while also revealing what he was told the scene was going to be about. Here’s how he put it in an interview with Yahoo Entertainment:
