Brandon Routh

“Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.”

“I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.”

“It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.”

“There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.”

“I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.”

“So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.”

“My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.”