#maybe they should cast Daniel to play Superman

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SuperDan! For @madmazmind as part of @dailyf1’s secret Santa

Hope you like it Maia! Happy holidays!

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New from Kevin Wozniak on Kevflix: What’s Streaming this Month? – July

Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, Criterion Channel, and HBOMax in July, all of which offer up some incredible titles.

      NETFLIX

Full list of everything coming to Netflix in July can be found here.

    AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980)

An iconic comedy that still holds up 40-years later.

    BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm, 1993)

The best Batman animated film and one of the best Batman films ever.

    CLOUD ATLAS (Lilly and Lana Wachowski, 2012)

An epic, ambitious film and one of the most underrated movies of the last decade.

    MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, 1972)

Martin Scorsese’s breakout is a gritty look at a small-time hoodlum trying to move his way up in the local mob.

    MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Clint Eastwood, 2004)

Clint Eastwood’s emotional Best Picture winner features a trio of stellar performances from Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman.

    THE NOTEBOOK (Nick Casavettes, 2004)

A great cinematic love story.

    SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece is one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever created.

    SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (Nora Ephron, 1993)

One of the greatest romantic comedies ever made.

    SPOTLIGHT (Todd McCarthy, 2015)

This disturbing, masterful procedural rightly deserved its Best Picture win in 2015.

  THE TOWN (Ben Affleck, 2010)

Ben Affleck’s thrilling crime film is his best work as a director.

  TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)

A wild, violent, excellent sci-fi film from the great Paul Verhoeven.

    PRIME VIDEO

Full list of everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in July can be found here.

    ALI (Michael Mann, 2001)

Will Smith gives one of the best performances of his career in Michael Mann’s captivating, sprawling biopic.

    BIG FISH (Tim Burton, 2003)

Tim Burton’s stunning, heartwarming, and strange movie about the father-son bond.

    THE DEVIL’S REJECTS (Rob Zombie, 2005)

A delirious, gory film from Rob Zombie.

    MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen, 2011)

Woody Allen’s charming, beautiful love note to Paris and artists of the past.

    PANIC ROOM (David Fincher, 2002)

It’s on the lower-end of Fincher’s filmography, but this is still a really good and intense movie.

    PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (David Gordon Green, 2008)

An iconic stoner comedy featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco and their best and a scene-stealing Danny McBride.

    HULU

Full list of everything coming to Hulu in July can be found here.

    WAITING FOR GUFFMAN/BEST IN SHOW/A MIGHTY WIND/FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (Christopher Guest, 1996/2000/2003/2006)

These four movies, all directed by Christopher Guest and written by Guest and Eugene Levy, are top-notch mockumentaries and hilarious comedies.

  THE ASSISTANT (Kitty Green, 2020)

This chilling inside look at a Hollywood studio is quietly one of the best movies of 2020.

    DOWNHILL RACER (Michael Ritchie, 1969)

Robert Redford and Gene Hackman give two of the best performances of their career in this thrilling, in-depth look at a cocky skier who clashes with his coach while on his way to the Olympics.

    FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (Nicholas Stoller, 2008)

One of the great comedies of the 21st century.

    HOT ROD (Akiva Schaffer, 2007)

An underrated cult comedy.

    LIAR LIAR (Tom Shadyac, 1997)

One of Jim Carrey’s best movies and performances.

    MOONSTRUCK (Norman Jewison, 1987)

Cher and Nicolas Cage are absolutely delightful in this Oscar-winning romantic dramedy.

    MY COUSIN VINNY (Jonathon Lynn, 1992)

One of my favorite comedies ever.

    PALM SPRINGS (Max Barbakow, 2020)

This got a lot of buzz at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, so I’m excited to check it out and see what the hoopla is all about.

    WEST SIDE STORY (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961)

Arguably the greatest musical ever made.

    DISNEY+

Full list of everything coming to Disney+ in July can be found here.

  THE BIG GREEN (Holly Goldberg Sloan, 1995)

A 90’s Disney sports gem.

    HAMILTON (Lin Manuel Miranda, 2020)

One of Broadway’s biggest hits ever is coming to Disney+ with a recording of the show with the original cast.  I am very excited to see this as I did not see the play.

    INCREDIBLES 2 (Brad Bird, 2018)

Brad Bird waited fourteen years to give us a sequel to his 2004 masterpiece and he didn’t disappoint.  Fun, exciting, and full of action, laughs, and deep themes.

    THE MIGHTY DUCKS (Stephen Herek, 1992)

A Disney sports classic.

    SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (Ron Howard, 2018)

Not a great Star Wars movie, but has some good stuff in it, particularly Donald Glover as a young Lando Calrissian.

    CRITERION CHANNEL

Full list of everything coming to Criterion Channel in July can be found here.

*The Criterion Channel does things a little differently than every other streaming service.  The Criterion Channel, a wonderful streaming service that focuses on independent, foreign, and under-appreciates movies, doesn’t just throw a bunch of random movies to stream.  They get more creative, by having categories like “DOUBLE FEATURES” or “FILMS FROM…”, giving us curated lists of films that somehow blend together or feature a specific artist.*

    CERTAIN WOMEN: Criterion Collection Edition #893 (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)

A top-notch cast of Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, and Lilly Gladstone highlight this beautifully quiet drama from the great Kelly Reichardt.

  DOUBLE FEATURES

  From Art House to Grindhouse

The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)

The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972)

One of the most interesting double features Criterion has ever had.  The Virgin Spring is one of Ingmar Bergman’s most celebrated films, while The Last House on the Left is Wes Craven’s brutal rape-revenge flick.  Should make for a wild viewing.

    The Hard-Boiled Way

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)

The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)

Two hard-boiled Joseph H. Lewis film noirs.

  Auto Focused

Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968)

Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, 1966)

Two classic 60’s action films focused on the thrills behind the wheel.

MARRIAGE STORIES

Over a dozen movies focusing on messy, chaotic, dysfunctional marriages.

Come Back, Little Sheba  (Daniel Mann, 1952)

The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958)

La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)

Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)

Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)

A Married Couple (Allan King, 1969)

Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)

California Suite (Herbert Ross, 1978)

Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)

5×2 (François Ozon, 2004)

The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)

Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)

Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015)

  HBOMAX

Full list of everything coming to HBOMax in July can be found here.

    BLADE TRILOGY (Stephen Norrington/Guillermo Del Toro/David S. Goyer, 1998/2002/2004)

Wesley Snipes plays the half human-half vampire superhero in this dark and bloody comic book trilogy.

    BLAZING SADDLES (Mel Brooks, 1974)

A legendary comedy and maybe the best film of Mel Brooks career.

    CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg, 2002)

Underrated in the Spielberg cannon, Catch Me If You Can is a fun, twisty, expertly crafted con movie featuring a pair of great performances from Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.

    THE DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese, 2006)

Martin Scorsese won his long-overdue Oscar for this cat-and-mouse crime film about a cop who infiltrates the mob and how a mobster infiltrates the police.

    THE EXORCIST (William Friedkin, 1973)

The greatest horror movie ever made and one of the greatest films ever made, period.

    MAGNOLIA (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)

Paul Thomas Anderson’s wildly ambitious L.A. tale is one I’ve been itching to rewatch.

    MARS ATTACKS! (Tim Burton, 1998)

Tim Burton channel’s 50’s schlock films with this star-studded alien invasion movie.

    SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (Steven Spielberg, 1998)

Steven Spielberg’s World War II masterpiece features one of the greatest opening scenes I have ever seen.

    SUPERMAN I-IV/SUPERMAN RETURNS (Richard Donner/Richard Lester/Sidney J. Furie/Bryan Singer, 1978/1980/1983/1987/2006)

It’s going to be a lot of fun to give these ones a rewatch.  Christopher Reeve is a pitch-perfect Man of Steel and Superman Returns doesn’t get the love it deserves.

    UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood, 1992)

Clint Eastwood’s crowning achievement as a director and one of the best Western’s ever made.

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND July 26, 2019  - ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD, SKIN

Gonna try to make this a lighter column this week since I’m still recovering from a combination of Comic-Con and the heat wave that struck New York last weekend.

Of course, the big movie of the weekend is Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOOD (Sony), which has such an amazing concept and trailer and cast that I’m not sure what more I can say about it besides my review below. It does have an amazing cast led by Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie with an amazing supporting cast around them. Oh, just read the review…

My Once Upon a Time… Review

Plus you can read more about the movie’s box office prospects over at The Beat.

LIMITED RELEASES

The one limited release I do recommend is Guy Nattiv’s SKIN (A24/DirecTV), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and then played Tribeca earlier this year. It stars Jamie Bell as the heavily-tattooed Bryon “Babs” Widner, a violent white supremacist part of a Midwest group led by Vera Farmiga and Bill Camp. When Bryon meets a single mother of three girls played by Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$), he starts to realize that his dangerous violent and racist actions are destroying him, so he turns to Mike Colter as a FBI agent looking to turn white supremacists, to save him. Based on the true story of Bryon, who actually did try to get out of the white supremacist ring and had all his tattoos removed surgically. Nattiv is a really talented filmmaker, and if his name or the title of the movie sounds familiar, that’s because he won the Oscar for live action short earlier this year for a semi-related movie with the same title.  More importantly, the film marks a career best for Bell, who just carries himself so differently that it’s hard to believe that it’s the same actor who played Bernie Taupin in Rocketman. I definitely recommend seeking this one out in select theaters and On Demand this Friday.

Also, I’ll have an interview with Jamie Bell over at The Beatlater this week and another one with director Guy Nattiv over at Next Best Picture very soon, as well.

There are a number of great docs to check out this week, but one definitely worth checking out is Avi Belkin’s MIKE WALLACE IS HERE (Magnolia), which looks at the controversial career of newsman and interviewer who helped make CBS’s “60 Minutes” one of the hottest news programs on television even while being persecuted for his “Gotcha” tactics with some of the great world leaders. This is a fantastic doc that’s assembled from a lot of archival footage of Wallace’s interview as well as a more recent conversation with his “60 Minutes” co-host Morly Safer.sIt opens at the Landmark at 57 Streetand Angelika in New York on Friday, as well as L.A. Landmark 12 and then expands to other citieson August 2.

Another doc that’s more cinema verité but still interesting is Ljubomir Stefanov & Tamara Kotevska’s HONEYLAND (NEON), which follows a woman named Hatidze, living in the mountains of Macedonia with her ailing mother who makes a living with beekeeping, a practice that runs into issue when a family moves in next door to her who threatens her livelihood.  It opens at the Quad Cinemain New York

Now, we get to the movies I haven’t had a chance to see just yet…

I do want to see Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’s FOR SAMA (PBS Distribution), which trades Waad’s life through five years of the Aleppo uprising in Syria, as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth with the conflict around her. It’s told as a message to Waad’s daughter Sama.

Entertainment and The Comedy director Rick Alverson’s The Mountain (Kino Lorber/Vice Studios)starring Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan opens at the IFC Center in New York and Landmark Nuart in L.A. Friday. Sheridan plays an introverted photographer in the ‘50s who joins a legendary lobotomist (Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s procedure, becoming enamored with a young woman played by Hannah Gross. The movie also stars Denis Lavant and Udo Kier, and I hope to check it out although I have not been a fan of Alverson’s work up until now.

Opening at New York’s Village East Friday and in L.A. at the Laemmle Music Hall is Benjamin Gilmour’s Jirga starring Sam Smith – no, not the singer – as an Australian soldier who returns to his village after being accused of war crimes, so he puts his life at the mercy of the village’s justice system, the Jirga.

James Longley’s documentary Angels are Made of Light (Grasshopper Films), opening at New York’s Film Forum Wednesday, follows three Afghan brothers in war-ton Kabul.

Caper Van Diem from Starship Troopers stars in Chris Helton’s Dead Water (Lionsgate/Saban Films) a man who invites a friend and his beautiful wife onto his new yacht so they can relax, which leads to a deadly game once they’re boarded by a modern-day pirate.  It opens in select theaters and On Demand.

David Mahmoudieh’s See You Soon (Vertical) is a love story between a US soccer star with a career-threatening injury who has a romance with a Russian single mother.

Opening at the IFC Center in New York is Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer’s psychological thriller The Ground Beneath My Feet (Strand Releasing) about a woman named Lola (Valerie Pachner, winner of the Maguery Prize), who is trying to succeed in the business world while having a secret relationship with her boss Elise and dealing with her older sister’s mental illness, which leads to a suicide attempt.  

STREAMING AND CABLE

Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim’s doc The Great Hack looks at the data company Cambridge Analytica and how it used social media to try to affect (successfully) the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. It streams on Netflix starting Wednesday

Netflix also has three new foreign films streaming this week:

Olivier Afonso’s Girls with Balls is a French horror-comedy about a women’s volleyball team who are terrorized by a group of hunters while stranded in the woods.  Sebastian Schindel’s Spanish psychological thriller El Hijo (The Son)is about a 50-year-old painter who is getting ready to have a baby with his new wife until she becomes obsessed with the baby isolating him. From Spain comes Jorge M. Fontana’s Boiabout a chauffeur who drives two Chinese businessmen around Barcelona and getting caught up in an adventure with them.

Also, the 7thseason of Orange is the New Black – 7thSeason!? Man, I need to catch up – debuts on Friday.

I’m pretty excited thatThe Boys series is beginning on Amazon Prime on Friday, cause I generally like the work of Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, even though I never got as into this Dynamite series as much as I should have.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

Japanese actor Machiko Kyō, who passed away in May at the age of 95, gets a full-on retrospective running through August 1. I’ve seen Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomonand maybe a couple others but this is mostly focusing on her ‘50s work, including Ozu’s Floating Weeds, and I might have to try to check some of these out. Metrograph is also opening a restoration of Rob Nillson’s 1996 film Chalk, a drama centered around a pool hall with Nillson in person on Friday and Saturday nights. This week’s Late Nites at Metrograph is Pedro Almodovar’s excellent 1989 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!starring Antonio Banderas, whilePlaytime: Family Matinees is screening George Stevens’ 1953 Western Shane.

THE NEW BEVERLY  (L.A.):

Well, it looks like Tarantino has decided to use his own theater to show Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood day and night through the end of the month and most of those shows are sold out so… The couple exceptions are Weds afternoon’s screening of the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, the Weds. night George Hamilton double feature of Evel Knievel  (1971) and Jack of Diamonds (1967),  the weekend’s KIDDEE MATINEE of Herbie Fully Loaded (yes, the 2005 movie starring Lindsay Lohan) and then Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator(2004) on Monday afternoon.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

The Forum’s amazing Burt Lancaster retrospective continues this weekend with classics like The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and From Here to Eternity  (1953) on Friday, as well as Criss Cross (1949)on Saturday/Sunday and Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963) on Sunday. Monday is a  1948 double feature of All My Sons &Sorry Wrong Number, while Tuesday is double features of The Crimson Pirate (1952) and Jacques Tournuer’s The Flame and the Arrow (1950). Also the restoration of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946)has been extended for select screenings starting Friday.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

On Thursday, this week’s installment of “Highballs and Screwballs” is His Girl Friday (1940) with  Call Northside 777  (1948). On Friday, Helen Slater Jr. will be on  hand for a double feature of Superman  (1978) with Supergirl  (1984). Saturday sees a six-film “Warner Bros. Horror/Sci-Fi Marathon” of House on Haunted Hill (1958), The Thing from Another World (1951), Tod Browning’s Freaks  (1932),Them! (1954), The Haunting  (1953) and Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People(1942) – some real classics in there.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

I got to watch three of the six movies in the “Fresh Meat: Giallo Restorations Part II” over the weekend and you can still see a few of them over the next couple days.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Starting Friday and running through August 15, the IFC Center is running Abbas Kiorastami: A Retrospective (Janus Films), the most comprehensive retrospective of the late Iranian filmmaker with film critic Godfrey Chesire doing a few discussions of Kiorastami’s work including the World Premiere of a restoration of his “Koker Trilogy” AND the theater is offering special Ticket Packs, so you can plan on seeing multiple films in the series.

FILM OF LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

This is Cinema Now: 21st Century Debuts  continues through the end of the month with a number of highlights including Saturday night’s double feature of Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook. (Oddly, Ms. Kent’s second feature The Nightingaleopens next week!)

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

I’m going to try to write about BAM’s new series We Can’t Even: Millennials on Film without snickering or being snarky, mainly because I can’t believe it’s taken so long for one of these rep/arthouses to do something like this. Running from July 24 through August 6, the line-up is actually pretty impressive in terms of recent movies, ranging from Natalie Portman’s Vox Lux to the Oscar-winning Moonlight, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, David Fincher’s The Social Network and much more.

Actually, my bud Jordan Hoffman wrote a story on this series for AM New York if you need any more convincing.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

Astoria’s premiere arthouses continues the series “Barbara Hammer: Superdyke” through the weekend, and they’re showing the Oscar-nominated animated film The Secret of the Kellsthrough the weekend. This weekend also is a series called “Verneuil Populaire: Vintage Thrillers from France’s Genre Maestro” which includes The Sicilian Clan (1969) on Friday, A Monkey in Winter (1962) and two more on Saturday, and The Burglars (1971) and Fear over the City (1975) on Sunday.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

Wednesday night is another screening of The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), starring Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate – the film on which they met – plus Friday and Sunday, the Roxy is showing Valley of the Dolls (1967), also starring Tate. Could this be meant as a tie-in to Tarantino’s film? Could be…

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Friday’s midnight movie is Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.

AEROin L.A. and MOMAin New York are both going through renovations.

Next week… Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw!

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Henry Cavill talks 'Justice League,' dating, and how he's achieved zen-like comfort in his hardcore training

Ben Watts

Editor's Note: This feature originally appeared in the September 2016 issue of Men's Fitness.

Though Henry Cavill has found worldly fame through a character who is, very literally, out of this world—of course, he’s best known as the last son of Krypton in director Zack Snyder’s 2013 franchise reboot, Man of Steel, and its follow-up, this year’s megahit Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—he works pretty damn hard to keep his real-life self firmly grounded here on Earth. In fact, the 33-year-old English superstar has shunned the trappings of a full-time Hollywood lifestyle for a quieter, more friends-and-family-centric life in London. “If I ever become an egomaniac, then I’ve messed it up," he says.

Here, Cavill shares more about keeping his head screwed on straight while supersizing his muscles, how he’d prefer roles more in the vein of Bond than Bale, and why no one should ever dare to push around his pooch. Of course, there’s also one particularly buzzy thing he simply can’t talk about. So we’ll get to that first. [Speaking of: major spoiler alert.]

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Your character gets killed off at the end of Batman v Superman, but you’re making Justice League now, so clearly Superman comes back to life. How does he do it?

I’m afraid I can’t talk about it. In fact, I’m sure there’s someone [from the studio] waiting just outside my house in case they overhear me say something. Then I’ll be shuffled off involuntarily.

You’re the first British Superman. What’s it like playing this iconic American character?

Well, Superman, in my belief, is for everyone. I mean, he’s American, but he’s not necessarily just for Americans. I think people everywhere know who Superman is, and they can relate to Superman. I think the feeling I have for Superman would be the same as the American version of me would have for Superman. My playing the character, as a Brit, doesn’t make a difference because when it comes to the whole acting thing, ultimately, it’s an alien who flies around and stuff. It’s an acting job.

Did you grow up in a DC universe or a Marvel one?

I didn’t grow up in either in particular. When I was a young lad I was into Superman, I was into Iron Man, I was into the X-Men. I didn’t really know there was a difference. To be honest—I’m really not too sure if there is now. I think they’re all damn cool. Since I got the role of Superman, I’ve been more into the character and delving into the DC universe. I’m loving what DC is doing. I think it’s just fun, and it’s everything it should be in a comic book. It’s inspirational, it’s joyful, it’s got heart. It’s the kind of thing kids read and want to grow up trying to emulate, and that’s what it should be.

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So what’s Henry Cavill’s personal Kryptonite?

The people I love. I think if someone went after them, then that would change every single core characteristic of mine. I wouldn’t become weak, but I don’t think I’d be very good, if you know what I mean. If I were to be walking my dog, for example, and someone were to kick my dog, I honestly don’t know what I would do. I think I’d probably get myself into a big amount of trouble.

What kind of dog do you have?

I have an Akita named Kal. I picked up Kal for the first time during preproduction for Batman v Superman. I got him in Arkansas, which I was sure was pronounced “Ar-Kansas” before I got there. I said it in front of lots and lots of people, but no one corrected me until I actually got to Arkansas, and they said, “Oh yeah, it’s ‘Arkansaw,’ not ‘Ar-Kansas.’” I thought, “Thanks, everyone else who’s heard me say that.”

Are your regular “off-season” workouts significantly different from the ones you do when you have to bulk up and look like the Man of Steel?

During an off-season period, I’ll be at a level of having gotten fit, so I’ll be going to the gym I train at here in London. It’s just about working, pushing hard, but not to the point where I’m getting up the next day and being really sore.

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You’re looking pretty big these days. Do you really keep it to such a moderate intensity?

Once you get to the level of being fit, there are days when you go, “You know what? Today I just want to dig a very deep hole and jump into it.” Then sometimes your energy is really high and you think, “I’m going to hurt myself today. Let’s see if I still bleed.” And you will bleed! Then you’ll wake up the next day and go, “Oh, holy moly—but it was fun.” It’s just going there, breathing, getting some endorphins flowing. Maybe you want to work on some muscle groups. Maybe you want to get leaner. And so you can set little tasks for yourself. It’s very, very important as well to have someone who genuinely knows what they’re talking about, who can advise you on diet and what you’re doing with it, as far as training is concerned. These are all important things. These are things that I don’t know. Thankfully, I have my trainer here in London, Michael Blevins. If I say, “You know what? I want to have bigger hamstrings. They’re nice and strong, but I want them to be bigger. What do I do?” He goes, “OK, cool. Well, do this, this, and this. Up your calories...”

You’re pretty forthcoming about your workouts, often posting online clips of yourself training. Is that an important conversation to have with your fans?

A lot of working out today is, “Let’s make it an easy fix.” Do this, and do that, and you’ve got 60-second abs. My own personal approach to training is, I’m learning year after year after year and applying it and finding what fits and suits me best for my lifestyle. It’s been a long process. There’s no quick fix. I was very fit, then I was not very fit, then I was very fit again, then I was not very fit. Now that I’m fit again, I think I’ve found a comfortable balance, which is enjoyable because we all like to go out for drinks and have pizza and have dinners and all the nice things in life, and not being a complete gym psycho. But I stay fit enough to feel comfortable with taking my shirt off at the beach, because someone’s going to take a photo, and then it won’t all of a sudden be, “Hey look, fat Superman!” in the Daily Mail or something like that. It’ll just be, “Hey, look, Henry Cavill at the beach,” and I won’t be ashamed to see that photo. So through my Instagram and my social media, I’m trying to sort of send the message out there that it’s a process. As much as I can, I like to get it out there that you don’t have to endure a psychotic, agonizing workout. You don’t have to leave it all on the floor every time. Hopefully through my social media I can help educate people.

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Could you see taking roles down the line that require sort of the opposite transformation, like Christian Bale in The Machinist, for which you’d have to drop 60lbs?

Unless the script was very good, I would say no. If it were something I really cared about and I really wanted to have, like, an effect on an audience because it’s subject matter that’s very, very important to me, and I wanted to get it out there, then yeah, I could see myself doing it. Otherwise, no. I’m not going to be like, “Hey, I’m going to do a big fat-man role or a really skinny role because that’s what all the big actors do these days!” I’m not going to choose work to make people go, “Oh, wow, he can really act because he can lose lots of weight.”

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Is there another career you could’ve envisioned pursuing had things worked out differently?

Thankfully, at this stage I’ve got my foot in the door enough that if someone tried to slam it shut, I could probably squeeze through a little bit and keep the door open. As far as a full backup plan, it was the British Armed Forces. But being 33 years old, I think I’m too old to join now.

Speaking of the armed forces: James Bond is a character you’ve spoken to us about before. Are you still interested in playing him one day?

Absolutely. It’d be awesome to play Bond, a classic Bond, really. I wouldn’t play the same kind of Bond as Daniel Craig because that’s an amazing Bond, and I don’t think I’d be the person to outdo Daniel Craig at doing Daniel Craig’s Bond. I would love to do a different version and just have enormous amounts of fun with it. The great thing about Bond is that every different actor can play him so differently.

I’ve noticed the bookmakers in London keep adjusting the odds on who has the best shot right now to become the new Bond. Tom Hiddleston seems to be among the top choices. Do you think that’s because he’s already cast his own real-life Bond Girl in Taylor Swift?

Oh, I know nothing about that. The greatest thing about this entertainment industry is that whether there’s a movie out or not, people can find some entertainment from it.

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I think a lot of people see you as sort of a real-life James Bond, a suave, charming lady-killer who always gets the girl. Do you have any dating and love advice that you think young men should keep in mind—things that you try to do in your own life?

That’s a tough one, giving advice to anyone. I’ve always been very careful at giving advice because I think the best advice in the world is “Don’t give advice unless it’s asked for”. But if, say, for example, a hypothetical reader were hypothetically asking for advice, then I would say: Stop looking to get laid, and look more for someone who can make you the better version of you in a good, happy way. That’s going to make you happier, more than just getting laid will.

And where are you on that journey?

Well, I keep those kinds of things to myself for now.

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