Cartier's all-new Pasha brings back the 1980s – in a good way. Still, I say, it must be the first time someone has sued for damages because of his acting. More specifically for Cavill, he was about to make his debut as Superman in Man of Steel. We talk to the star of Enola Holmes about those Superman rumours, why he'd still love to play 007, and how he broke the internet by building a gaming PC. “I’ve not been in comms with them about it.”. Best men’s aftershaves and fragrances: the GQ guide. By Adrian Clark 1 September 2020. But the thing about lockdown, it gave me a lot of time to reflect. That sounds very much, I say, like a way of saying “no comment” without actually denying it. But Cavill pours cold water on this. “It’s a character from a page which we worked out from the screenplay. Why not share it? Celebrity computer-building enthusiasts: watch this space. By Alfred Tong 12 September 2020. watches. We’ll see what happens. He spoke warmly about how his favourite activity with his brothers was playing a first-person-shooter game online death match together. Edition Britain. By Zak Maoui 23 September 2020. So how many has he actually painted? Since then, despite a career that has often seen him starring in blockbusters in various flavours of leading-man beefcake – though mostly CIA-agent beefcake (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible – Fallout) and superhero beefcake (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League) – he has also grown more comfortable in showing himself to be what he actually is: a huge nerd in an even huger man’s body. Hell, we even wrote about it. GQ Recommends. Grooming. “I mean, honestly, I don’t have a take on it,” says Cavill when I mention the lawsuit. After all, what is Sherlock if not the ultimate detail-obsessive nerd? “Haha, honestly, nothing surprises me any more.”. Fashion. A dog’s age!”. “So he was like, ‘Who the fuck is this bothering me? Many moons ago. Cavill will again be seen as Superman in the famed “Snyder cut” of Justice League, which is being released as a four-episode mini-series on HBO Max next year, with The Hollywood Reporter even reporting that most of the main cast – including Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, Ben Affleck’s Batman and Cavill’s Superman – will be filming re-shoots from next month. But what lockdown mostly gave him was time to ponder, and to finally realise what made him truly happy. And so I spent a lot of time thinking about what makes me happy. Get GQ. Jesus! “If Barbara [Bond producer Barbara Broccoli] and Mike [co-producer Michael G. Wilson] were interested in that, I would absolutely jump at the opportunity,” he says. Remembering, he says: “Oh my goodness me, yes! It was my solemn duty, for the story, to personally inform Snyder of the tale (“Haha, that’s awesome!” he said. Grooming heroes of the week: the stay-at-home edition. And even more specifically for everyone else, the interview would end up being one of Cavill’s first steps to being anointed the internet’s nerd-king, and the fantasy boyfriend for everyone who's into cosplay. This turned out to be painting miniature Warhammer models of aliens and supernatural monsters, one of which he then posted on Instagram. “They are doing their own thing out there, putting the movie together from the footage they shot,” he says when I ask if Snyder has been in touch. During lockdown he has, like almost all of us, tried baking, or rather baked his first ever cake, as evidenced by an Instagram post of a baked good that appears to have been first dipped then fire-hosed in icing. Finally, I say to him, when we spoke all those years before, we discussed how, as a 22-year-old, he auditioned for Bond, and apparently came close to landing it. But I did not think that the internet was going to grab hold of it the way it did.”, “Not just yet. He informed me that, when director Zack Snyder called him to offer him the part of Superman, he didn’t answer the phone, as he was playing World of Warcraft at the time, and so let it ring out (“and I saw it was him… but you can’t pause World of Warcraft, it’s live”), a story that he would be asked to regurgitate in countless talk-show appearances since.