We told you about his Empire cover dressed as Superman for next film Man of Steel, but Henry Cavill is out of character for his GQ June cover and we’re sure his piercing eyes and chiselled jaw line will have all of the girls swooning...
As Superman, Cavill is playing one of the most famous roles of all time – and is actually the first Brit to do so. Russell Crowe plays his father Jor-El in the film but Henry first had a brush with the actor back when he was a teenager.
Cavill was an extra on a Crowe flick and after striking up a conversation with him he asked what being an actor was like. Whilst his peers then mobbed Crowe, begging for autographs Henry actually helped him escape. Two days later he received a package containing Jersey sweets, a jar of Vegemite and a signed picture of Crowe in Gladiator, signed: “Dear Henry, a journey of 1,000 miles begins in a single step. Russell”.
“And I hadn’t asked for a thing – all this really cool stuff for not asking,” he tells the magazine.
Cavill made his name in The Tudors but confesses that he was in the running for playing another kind of super hero – James Bond. His audition process got pretty far, to the point where it was between him and Daniel Craig. Suffice to say, we know how that ended, but would Henry ever consider taking the part if it was offered again?
“If I’m in the running again, [if] people don’t just see me as Superman, and they could see me as Bond, then yeah, I’d love to do it.”
He adds: “I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it’s tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.”
Read the full interview in the June issue before you subscribe and save on a GQ magazine subscription today.
Posted by Amy Power.
