For David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan, their chemistry read as Clark Kent and Lois Lane — or Superman and Lois Lane — was over and done as quickly as it started.
Corenswet told People that he met “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Emmy winner “in sort of a flurry of handshakes and hellos.” It was summer 2023, Brosnahan had flown into Los Angeles from New York City, and she was due back for a performance of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” on Broadway.
“We said a quick hello, and he was… very nice and very tall, and we read the scene together,” Brosnahan told People. The scene in question, Corenswet remembered, was on the long side, 10-12 pages, and ended up being shot again for the final film.
“Neither of us quite knew what we were doing,” he said. “We had each done the scene with other people, so we weren’t sure if the blocking was going to be the same or whether we were going to figure something else out between the two of us. So, I think we both thought it was… sort of a warm-up, and we would get another shot. And then [writer/director James Gunn] yelled, ‘Cut,’ and said, ‘Great, that was awesome. Alright, Rachel, I think you’re getting on a plane.’”
“The whole thing is kind of a blur,” Brosnahan said. “Honestly, I don’t remember anything about it. And then we said goodbye, and that was it.”
“The next thing that happened was we found out we were cast. We didn’t know each other at all,” Corenswet said.
Since they’d be following in the footsteps of previous portrayers like Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Henry Cavill, and Amy Adams, the stars knew that they had to meet and get to know one another.
“We’d had this brief but obviously impactful moment together during our chemistry read… but I think we both left feeling like we didn’t remember anything about it, and wanted to spend some time together. We had a really lovely breakfast [in New York] after we found out we were going to be playing the roles together… and got to know each other that way,” Brosnahan recalled.
Through the long production shoot, the two got to know one another very well, and discovered that they were such good scene partners, they’d often get totally lost in their characters.
“She made me curse at her,” Corenswet laughed. “The way she delivered one particular line made me sort of involuntarily say, ‘Oh, f*** you,’ which I think was a great shock to all of us… She caught me off guard and made me feel really hurt in that moment, and so I, in character, shot back at her.”
Not all moments were so dramatic, however. Brosnahan recalled a lighthearted take where Corenswet made an “expression of how injured he was,” and she found it “so funny.” “I think about that face he made in that moment all of the time,” she said.
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