David Corenswet had a minor mishap while filming an “epic” flying scene in Superman.
During a Vanity Fair lie detector test published Thursday, July 10, Corenswet, 32, recalled to costar Nicholas Hoult that he got the “wildest bruise” on his right testicle while in a harness for a flying sequence.
“There is footage from filming, where — have you seen it? Of me getting pulled through the air,” Corenswet shared. “It’s this wonderful epic moment, it’s in the trailer, the beginning of it, where I stand up and punch the glass out and I leap out the window and fly through the air, and on the first take of that, it’s this big epic punch and a leap through the air and then it’s, ‘My testicle!’”
Corenswet explained that he “couldn’t lie about” what happened because “it’s on film.”
Hoult, 35, who plays Lex Luthor in the film, responded to Corenswet’s story by jokingly saying, “I want to ask you more questions about your testicles, but I don’t know where to go that’s appropriate.”
Corenswet plays the titular role in the 2025 rendition of Superman, which hit theaters on Friday, July 11. The film, which also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion and Isabela Merced, follows Superman (a.k.a. Clark Kent) as he proves to the world that he is its protector after Lex Luthor tries to turn the public against him.
Nicholas Hoult and David Corenswet in ‘Superman’ Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection
Corenswet has previously talked about donning Superman’s cape after Christopher Reeve played the role in the 1978 movie.
“I don’t think there’s any way or reason to try to sort of live up to Christopher Reeve,” the Twisters star shared in an interview with CBS News in June. “I just feel grateful to get to play that character that he embodied and put into the public consciousness in such a positive and strong way.”
The actor also noted that he understands the weight of the role and how it could either make or break his career.
Nicholas Hoult reportedly commanded the highest salary of the main Superman cast despite not playing the Man of Steel. According to a report published by Puck News, the newly-blond Hoult, 35, earned $2 million to portray notorious DC Comics super-villain Lex Luthor in writer-director James Gunn’s highly anticipated reboot of the Superman film series. By […]
“When you take a role that’s gonna be this visible and this iconic, even just visually iconic, and it’s your face and the underwear, yeah, I wanted to be prepared for the possibility that it wouldn’t lead to a bunch of other things, that this would be the thing,” he told the outlet. “And I felt really lucky that when I asked myself that question, the answer came back, ‘Somebody’s gotta play this part, and if you’re the person to play it and you give up everything else to do it, it could be worth doing.’”
While Corenswet was excited to take on the popular role, it also came at a chaotic time for him. He landed the part around the same time his wife, Julia Best Warner, found out she was pregnant with the couple’s first baby. (They welcomed their little one in early 2024.)
“She told me that she was pregnant two days after I found out I was going to screen test for Superman,” he told People in June. “For the first several months of her pregnancy, as is sort of protocol, we weren’t telling anybody. We had these two quite huge secrets that we just had between the two of us. And that was intense.”
