Nicholas Hoult’s Superman Press Tour Style Is Villainously Good
By Eileen Cartter
For Hollywood pundits and comic-book fanboys alike, there’s a lot riding on James Gunn’s Superman reboot, which arrives in theaters on July 10. For whatever it’s worth, Gunn himself is already mitigating that sort of cultural pressure. “This is not the riskiest endeavor in the world,” the filmmaker recently told GQ. “It doesn’t need to be as big of a situation as people are saying.”
In the new Superman, newcomer David Corenswet’s hero will once again face off against his canonical archnemesis, Lex Luthor, who is played by babyfaced industry vet Nicholas Hoult. And based on Hoult’s hot-blooded fashion choices during the Superman press tour, he seems to understand exactly the sort of attention (sartorial and otherwise) stars have to generate to make their movie a success.
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