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Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Christopher Reeve's Son Will Explains How His 'Superman' Cameo Came to Be, and How It Mirrors His Own Life
The son of Christopher Reeve shared his experience filming a cameo in honor of his late father for the new Superman film 'And it was a nice homage, I think, to my dad, who for millions of people has been Superman for generations," Will Reeve told the New York Post Reeve recalled his cameo being leaked on the internet before leaving Cleveland, where he filmed his sceneWill Reeve is carrying on his father Christopher Reeve's legacy in the new Superman movie. The ABC News correspondent, 33, has a cameo in the DC Studios movie and recently explained how it came to be — and how quickly the news of it leaked. Will told the New York Post that he had not yet returned to New York from filming his cameo in Cleveland in July 2024 when he learned it had already leaked online. 'I went on set, I did my thing for a few minutes, and then got in the car to head back to the airport to go home,' Will said, laughing. 'And by the time I had gotten to the gate, it had leaked online that I had a cameo.' The opportunity to appear in even a small portion of the film isn't something Will takes lightly, calling it 'such a treat.' Especially since it is a way to honor the legacy of his late father, who played Superman in the 1978 film and its three sequels. 'I was honored to get the call from the wonderful filmmakers, and I jumped at the opportunity,' Will told the New York Post. 'And it was a nice homage, I think, to my dad, who for millions of people has been Superman for generations, and for the filmmakers of this new version of Superman,' he continued. 'To include me as a way to include him meant a lot.' As for the correspondent's character, it isn't too far off from Will's everyday life as a journalist, who makes regular appearances on Good Morning America and ABC World News Tonight. 'I will not tell you what my line was,' he said. 'But I can tell you that I was playing a close approximation of myself.' Will confirmed in a street interview with TMZ in July 2024, that he would be part of the 2025 Superman film directed by James Gunn. "I know the folks making the film, and they've been so kind to me and my family, and I had a free day so we made it [happen]," Will said. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Although Will makes regular live TV appearances, he said being on the set of Superman was still a nerve-wracking experience. "It was a really great experience; they were super friendly; it was quick, easy," he told TMZ last year. "I was actually more nervous doing that than I am whenever I'm on TV for my normal job cuz there was so many people around and I had to memorize one line, but still!" Will was involved in the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which focused on Christopher's Hollywood success and the 1995 horseback riding accident that left him paralyzed. Christopher died in 2004 from cardiac arrest at 52. In 2023, Will spoke with PEOPLE about the close resemblance between him and his father, saying that he "always takes that as a compliment." "I think that I had two beautiful parents, inside and out, and if I bear any resemblance to them physically, or temperamentally, or in my values, then I take that as a compliment every day," Will continued. Superman is now in theaters. Read the original article on People
The Guardian
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Like Lena Dunham, I left my hometown. She'll learn that what drives us away is often what draws us back
J ohn Guare, the playwright, once told me that to live in the town where you grew up (in his case, New York) is to turn walking around your neighbourhood into reading your diary: 'everything has a history'. I had been in the city for two and a half years at that point – it was 2010 – and I remember very clearly having two simultaneous and contradictory thoughts: I'm so sad I don't have that, and I'm so happy I don't have that. You move away from home because every street corner triggers associations and then you spend the next 20 years feeling bad about it. I mention all this because Lena Dunham has written a long piece in the New Yorker about her own breakup with New York, a sort of homage to Goodbye to All That, the famous Joan Didion essay of 1967 in which Didion left the city for California amid much eloquent and extremely Didionesque agonising about what it all meant. Unlike Didion, who moved to New York when she was 20, Dunham grew up there and in the piece, which is very charming, she itemises all the ways in which she was ill-suited to the place. As a child, Dunham found New York chaotic, alarming, aggressive and at odds with her nature. 'I had been told by countless cabdrivers – soothsayers, all of them – that I seemed like I was from someplace else,' she writes, 'because no matter how far off course they drove me, or how late I was running, I always babbled cheerful thank-yous, and unlike other native New Yorkers I had no preferred routes.' The essay is a piece of long-range publicity for Dunham's forthcoming Netflix show, Too Much (I mean, I assume that's what it is; the New Yorker doesn't allow publicity kickers, so you never know what anything's for), which is loosely based on her experience of fleeing New York and heartbreak – first for Wales, then for London, a place, it turns out, that suits her much better. I have loved Dunham's recent output, from Catherine Called Birdy, the movie she wrote and directed for Amazon, to the pilot she directed for the HBO show Industry, and as Girls enjoys a resurgence among generation Z viewers discovering it for the first time, it's wild to consider the flak she copped as a 25-year-old – she is now 38 – stewarding six seasons of the show through the system with the grisly resolve of David Chase (the Sopranos creator and a man 40 years her senior). On the subject of mobility, Dunham makes the point that London appealed to her because it was a 'blank slate', and even though, sadly, moving requires a person to take themselves with them, this is generally why people do it. I have 10 years on Dunham and in my experience it is what eventually drives them home, too – the shallowness of the soil of a place where you didn't grow up. In my case, returning to London from New York was triggered by an extremely middle-aged moment of realising I didn't want to die there, not least because I had watched my mother die a long way from home and, although for her England was infinitely preferable to where she started out, I still think something irreplaceable was lost. Anyway, Dunham is right that in London time moves slightly differently to the way it does in New York. 'In New York – the fastest city in the world – days had felt like years,' she writes. 'In London, years passed like days, which is how I ended up, five years on, realizing that London is my home now, so much so that I call seltzer 'sparkling water' and settle for bagels that taste like caulk.' (Hard identify.) And a move in either direction gives you something to talk and write and make content about for years, too, although as Didion rather snottily observed in her essay, to those who asked why she left New York, 'we gave certain stock answers, the answers everyone gives'. The fact is that it is less the individual qualities of a place that attract or repel than what that place comes to stand for, which is something that can change over time. I was walking down a leafy London street the other day looking at the horse chestnut and hearing the sound of the wood pigeon, and was blown away by the intensity of how both things drew down into my earliest memories – although, of course, I only felt this way because I'd just spent almost two decades going without it. If, said Guare, you had told him when he was 20 that he would stay in New York all his life, 'I would have said, what went wrong? I was sure I'd go and live in California. Then I thought I'd live in London; I love London, but everyone's so polite. I missed a good fight on the subway.' That he would remain in New York would have struck him as 'horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.' And yet as everyone for whom this option, for whatever reason, is denied, it remains the case that if it's a luxury to leave, it's a much greater luxury to go home. Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist
