Playing Superman is one of the greatest accomplishments of Henry Cavill’s career, there would not be much argument for that. However, for Cavill, Superman is not the coolest character he ever played.
Napoleon Solo is an iconic television character from the 60s played by Robert Vaughn in Sam Rolfe and Norman Felton-created the action spy fiction show The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Cavill played the character in Guy Ritchie’s 2015 movie of the same name and believes Solo is cooler than Superman.
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Henry Cavill Thinks Napoleon Solo Is Cooler Than Superman
There is no doubt that Henry Cavill has been a fitting Superman but the actor feels that Napoleon Solo is cooler than the DC’s Man of Steel. Solo is more stylistic with charisma in his sleeves while Superman holds moral and ethical ground with extreme superpower, it is beyond realism. If Cavill had to pick one, he’d go for the secret superspy over a superhero. In a Red Carpet Interview, Cavill candidly reflected on the difference between the characters.
“I guess the difference being a Napoleon and the Superman really is that Napoleon’s out for himself but he’s so charming no one hates him for it and that’s a lot of fun to play with where Superman despite being an incredible character is rather earnest and people tend to dislike that he pretend to dislike the guy who’s too good and too powerful and it was a lot of fun to play a character where Guy Ritchie comes out from behind the monitor one day and says Henry I think people gonna actually like you in this movie,” Cavill said in the interview.
Also, Cavill had a lot of fun filming The Man from U.N.C.L.E. going vintage in Rome with vintage cars, classy costumes made the filming process too much fun as he felt it was being in a time warp.
Henry Cavill Explained Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo has been an iconic character and Cavill playing Solo has certainly added charisma to the modern version of the character. Speaking with Screen Slam, Cavill explained the Solo in the movie in great detail. “He is he’s a chap who, American guy, who’s bit of an Anglophile and he’s the son of an Irish janitor,” Cavill said.
“And he has sort of infiltrated English high society because he loved it so much and then got into the black market and dealing art he was so good at this that he was uncatchable and eventually he was given up by a jealous mistress and the CIA instead of him going to jail they said right how about you work for us for certain many years and then he was blackmailed into working for them and he ended up becoming their best agent and that’s where we first see him begin on a mission through the Berlin Wall,” he added.
Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. scored a decent critical reception but the box office numbers were not that impressive. Despite being an entertaining action-espionage thriller, the movie only collected $109.8 million worldwide against a production budget of $75 million.
Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. can be streamed on Max.
