David Corenswet knows you think he looks likeHenry Cavill.
“It came to my attention before the internet got a hold of me,” he tells EW.
“But my pie-in-the-sky ambition is definitely to play Superman.
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I would love to see somebody do an upbeat, throwback [take on Superman].
Corenswet describes the premise as following four or five young people in Hollywood just after World War II.
“It tackles the film industry of the time and also deals with the sex industry.
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There’s a seedy underbelly to be explored.”
“At least at the beginning of the series.”
“That was where all the drama happened the romances, the arguments,” he muses.
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Still, he was never one for all the drama that comes with the drama department.
“I had this feeling of ‘I get who this guy is.’
He said, ‘It says what you think it says.
I think this is the one.'”
In some ways that has held true.
Any chance I get to do my job is good enough for me.”
But for now, he’s happy to just have a shot at doing what he loves.
“I love being on set.
Somehow it feels more like audiences are the lucky ones.
