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As Cavill browses the aisles, some of the on the comic-book realm. “I’ve Page 88: A planned sequel was quietly
clientele sorta-discreetly close in on him. been quite disconnected from Sweatshirt by Todd euthanized. Oh, well.
Snyder + Champion;
(Joe, his imposing but not unpleasant all of this for quite a while,” he jeans by 7 for There have been numerous
security guy, keeps an eye on the onlook- says. “I’m very behind.” It’s All Mankind; watch reports—some from rumor-
ers while rifling through comics.) The been nearly a decade since he by Timex.This page: ravaged fan sites, but others
T-shirt by Armani
actor preempts any awkwardness by turn- was hired for Superman duty Exchange; pants by from credible industry publi-
ing around, shaking hands, and chatting and almost two years since he Tommy Hilfiger; watch cations—that Cavill’s time as
by Omega; socks by
everyone up before they can tap him on the last played the character, in Superman is fi nished. You can
American Trench.
shoulder. One customer imitates Cavill’s the troubled Justice League. sense the question forming in
fi erce “fi st cocking” motion from Fallout; That fi lm required extensive reshoots in customers’ heads as they watch him ring
another bonds with him over Alien, a fi lm which Cavill’s Fallout mustache had to be up his purchases and exit House of Secrets:
that spooked Cavill when he was a way-too- removed via digital eff ects; his upper lip Wait, is that dude . . . STILL Superman?
young kid living on the English Channel looked as if it had been stuffed with wet Cavill’s stayed silent about such gossip for
island of Jersey. (“Dude,” the actor says, cotton balls. Although the resulting fi lm a long time, to his occasional frustration.
“walking up to bed that night? I swear was seen as a slight improvement over He fought for years, facing down countless
there were those things on the ceiling.”) Batman v Superman, it was considered a rejections and close calls, to land a part as
Yet while Cavill tours the fl oor, he sounds fi nancial underachiever, despite making cosmically iconic as Superman. It’s a role,
apologetic for not being more caught up more than half a billion dollars worldwide. and a character, he guards fiercely—and
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