David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult met fans in Leicester Square for James Gunn’s Superman, the first film of the new DC Universe.
David Corenswet met fans at Cineworld Leicester Square on Wednesday 2 July 2025, when Superman held its UK fan premiere five days before its Hollywood premiere. Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult joined him.
Corenswet was born in Philadelphia in 1993 and acted on the city’s stages as a child. He spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania, then graduated in drama from the Juilliard School in 2016.
Lead roles followed in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician and Hollywood, then in the films Pearl and Twisters. James Gunn then cast him as Clark Kent opposite Brosnahan’s Lois Lane.
Gunn wrote and directed the film, the first in the DC Universe he runs with Peter Safran. Filming began in Svalbard, Norway, in February 2024 and moved to Trilith Studios in Atlanta.
Hoult played the tech billionaire Lex Luthor, whose part in an international conflict turned the public against the hero.
Gunn and Safran joined the cast on the carpet, where Corenswet wore an oversized red bow tie. The film reached British cinemas later in July and grossed more than $618 million worldwide.