Becoming the Man of Steel is not an easy task and if you don’t tell it to David Corenswet. At 30 years old, the American actor has made a titanic effort to get into the skin of Clark Kent in superman, the film that James Gunn is preparing as part of the reboot of the DC Universe. A production that took its protagonist to the limit with a strict diet and hard training of which we have now been able to become aware.
In a new interview for British GQ, he personal trainer to the stars Paolo Mascitti has confessed what was the path to follow so that Corenswet was more than prepared for filming. A training that would also be added Nicholas Houltthe new archenemy of the film as Lex Luthor.
In fact, Mascitti was already an old acquaintance of Gunn after helping the actor Flula Borg to become Javelin in The Suicide Squad (2021). Actors such as Tom Ellis, Christian Slater or Nicole Scherzingerwho demonstrated an impressive physical change in a short time.
6,000 calories and 18 kilos of muscle for the new Superman
Although he was already training intensely before meeting Mascitti and despite his impressive 1.90 meters, Corenswet is of slim build and he had to make a great effort. “He has gone from 90 to 108 kilosbut part of that mass will be lost as he continues to tone up,” says his trainer.
With five months to spare before the start of production, Corenswet He has trained between 3 and 4 sessions a week, where he gave his all for two hours in each one. A training model that has continued to exercise during the filming that is taking place these weeks and whose main formula has been called by Maciatti as ‘push day, pull day and leg day’.
Focused on classics such as the bench press, pull-ups or rowing, Although acknowledging that he hates squats, Corenswet managed to gain muscle mass and surprised with a physical transformation. A new image that we witnessed these weeks with the first official images of Superman, as well as the snapshots that we have been able to see of the actor in his most personal sphere.
Training classics never die
Thus, the training initially focused on large, compound movementsand in a caloric surplus that would provide muscle building blocks to progressively overload the muscles.
“He ate about 6,000 calories a day and his diet was strict., but not as much as I would have liked. Half of his training had to be done over FaceTime and the other half in person, since he wasn’t in Los Angeles all the time. We talked from a distance and I asked him about his diet, and he ate cereal! I was wondering, ‘What’s wrong with cereal?’ But that’s why he is the perfect Superman: has realistic expectations of himself and the role“, Masciatti confesses with amusement to GQ.
“David Corenswet is the tallest actor to play Superman”.
For its part, Henry Cavill, the previous Supermanreduced his daily calorie intake from 5,000 to 1,500 for six weeks and reached a body fat level of professional bodybuilders first level (7%). In addition to training in the gym, his preparation included jiu-jitsu classes with a world champion and at least between 9 and 10 hours of sleep each night, as he revealed at the time to Men’s Health.
As Comparisons are hateful, Masciatti always avoided following the training model of a hulk like Henry Cavill, but he worked to avoid criticism like the one that weighed against Robert Pattinson in Batman because of his skinny appearance. Now, the actor of The city is our and Pearl he has put his batteries and he promises to be one of the strongest and most unbeatable men on Krypton.
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