Will Reeve on His ‘Superman' Cameo, Honoring His Late Dad Christopher and Why the Family Embraces Every New Man of Steel: ‘We're Rooting for Everybody to Succeed'
'I think my flight got a little delayed, so I don't know what that means,' Will Reeve cracked Monday on the red carpet at the movie's premiere at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre.
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But then he added, 'I think I am very deliberate about living my own life, making my own decisions, knowing that if I make the right decision, it will honor my parents, and I think that it was the right decision to do this in a way, to honor my parents.'
Reeve, an ABC News correspondent, makes a cameo in 'Superman' as a reporter. 'My family, they're like, 'That's super cool. I wish we could come,' but it was on a Wednesday,' Reeve recalled. 'They have jobs. They're like, 'We can't make it, but go do a great job.' Everyone's incredibly excited about it. We're not gatekeepers of Superman. Our dad played this role in an incredibly enduring and culturally meaningful way, and that has stuck with people to present day. But that doesn't mean he's the only person who can be Superman, right? We're rooting for everybody to succeed, to soar, if you will.'
Has he been bitten by the acting bug? 'You'll see it, and you'll realize that I shouldn't have the acting bug,' Reeve said. 'Not only do I love what I do for ABC News, I find it to be incredibly important. Not to say that this is not important as well. It's just services something different. And what really stokes my passion is what I already currently do. That's not to say, if anyone wants some cameos, I am a member of SAG. You know, it's pretty easy to onboard me.'
Read and watch more of my red carpet highlights from the Superman premiere below.
Production designer Beth Mickle recalled seeing David Corenswet for the first time in the Fortress of Solitude. 'Nobody was in there…and I turned around and I saw David walking up the steps in his long red cape,' she said. 'He came right over. Was so gracious, complimented the set and then I got to give him a whole tour of it, just us. I gave Superman a tour of his fortress of solitude. It doesn't get bigger than that. I feel like I have to retire now.'
She also showed Shaquille O'Neal around when he was on set to film an NBA promo with Corenswet and director-writer James Gunn: 'We promised him an 18-foot crystal that we haven't been able to release to him yet. So Shaquille, I owe you a giant 18-foot resin crystal. I will get it to you. I promise.'
Sara Sampaio, the former Victoria's Secret model who plays Lex Luthor's (Nicholas Hoult) influencer-type girlfriend Eve Teschmacher, knew she had nailed at least one part of her audition. 'In my audition, James was like, 'We're asking everyone at the end to take a selfie,'' she said. 'I was like, 'I know how to do that!''
Sampaio also said she was in full support of Hoult recently going blonde. 'He looks amazing,' she said. 'Maybe Lex Luthor does a little hair transplant. That's actually the next one, 'Superman 2' goes to Turkey.'
Transforming into Metamorpho took Anthony Carrigan more than five hours in to get into costume every day. 'It was a very much practical costume, but obviously to do some action sequences they gotta do some CGI.'
Carrigan played coy when I asked if he snuck any photos to family and friends while still in production. 'Mom, just remember to lock your phone,' he quipped.
One would think that after all these years in the business, Noah Wyle would have been to at least one big blowout premiere at the Chinese Theatre.
Apparently not.
'I'd never been to one where they block off both sides of the street,' the 'Pitt' star told me. 'It's a Warner Bros. movie so I'm happy to support the company. I'm a big fan of James Gunn and Peter Safran so I can't wait to see what they did with it.'
He added that Superman was 'everybody's first superhero. I grew up when those old George Reeves reruns were still playing on TV, and I grew up on the cartoons and the comic books.'
But Wylie also revealed, 'I used to collect Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu comics like they were going out of style. He was my guy.'
Pruitt Taylor Vince may play Clark Kent's adoptive father in the movie, but he had something to admit when I talked to him on the carpet. 'I got this message about this role in the movie and I said to my friends, my few dear loved ones, 'Who's James Gunn?'…They went, 'Where have you been?'' Vince said. 'I said, 'You know me I don't get out much.''
And then he added, 'No offense, James. Seriously, buddy, that's about me.'
'Superman' is in theaters now.
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