Man and 'Superman': David Corenswet, the new Man of Steel, recalls his theater roots

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 3:03pm

David Corenswet, star of the new ''Superman'' movie opening July 11, did an extended interview with ''CBS Sunday Morning,'' where he returned to his hometown of Philadelphia. There, he revisited the Arden Theatre, where he made his stage debut at age 9 in Arthur Miller's ''All My Sons.'' Corenswet fondly remembers his late father, a stage actor, often rewatching the tape of ''Regard of Flight,'' Bill Irwin's 1987 Broadway show.

Corenswet and Christopher Reeve, who starred in the classic 1978 ''Superman'' movie, were both classically trained actors who went to Juilliard. (Both 6-foot-4, too.) Before Juilliard, he recalled the Upper Darby Summer Stage, where “every summer I did two or three musicals.''

Corenswet says he can carry a tune, but ''I have an older-school baritone voice so a lot of the modern musicals, I just can’t sing high enough for. But give me a 'Music Man' or a 'Guys and Dolls,' I really love that stuff.” (Too bad he wasn't asked about ''It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman''; if there's ever a Broadway revival, he's got possibilities.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqeqn0IA0Q&t=2s

Updated On: 6/30/25 at 03:03 PM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 3:38pm

My hopes are perhaps foolishly high for this, it's been a long time since I've cared about a superhero movie, but it looks to me like the first good Superman movie since Superman II. It feels like Lois and Clark have that kind of heightened, fun chemistry you want in a comic book (or musical comedy). 

[darquegk]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 4:56pm

The minute they said "James Gunn," I knew they'd cracked the code for Superman. Gunn's mix of extremely intense, heightened emotional melodrama with optimistic, goofy comedy and sharp action sequences is exactly the flavor Superman needs.