David Corenswet’s constant acting questions on the set of “Superman” became writer/director James Gunn’s Kryptonite
David Corenswet might be a little too much like Clark Kent. While on the set of “Superman,” the actor put on his reporter cap by asking James Gunn frequent questions about his acting skills — so many, in fact, that Gunn had to tell the young DC star to “shut the f–k up.”
“Sometimes his questions are great, and I totally see where they make him better, and because they make him better, they make the movie better,” Gunn told GQ in an interview out Monday. “But every once in a while, it’s just one question too many, and it’s like, ‘Oh, my God, just, David, stop, stop, for a minute.’ And the beautiful thing about me and David is that he knows that about himself and he knows where my limits are. And when I say, ‘David, shut the f–k up,’ David totally gets it and does not take that personally.”
Gunn spoke to GQ as part of an interview with Corenswet in anticipation of the release of “Superman.” The new DC Studios film comes at a key moment in both men’s careers — while Gunn is rebooting the DC universe as a Kevin Feige-like architect, Corenswet has been tasked with by far his biggest role to date.
At the same time, the film comes at something of a perilous moment for Superman as a character.
