Cavill has told
Showbiz Spy that he is just getting started:
“At this early stage I’m just doing some foundation training,”
“I’ve done about a month so far and it’s really hard stuff, to get my body used to the real stuff, which is coming up soon. So at the moment it’s just getting my body in the right aesthetic shape.”
Henry Cavill also explains to Movieline on how his training is progressing, how his Superman physique will be different from his shape in
Immortals and expresses his excitement about trying on the costume:
“After a month of training with Mark Twight’s program for Gym Jones - he did 300 and Sucker Punch as well - this foundation phase has sort of got me back towards my fitness,” Cavill explained. “Not quite in Immortals shape like I was, but I’ve got the base there again. So the hard work really begins now when I go to L.A. That’s going to be exciting.”
“It’s going to be a different kind of shape. When you see the Immortals shape you’ll see what I mean. We obviously haven’t had the final brief yet, it’s going to adapt and change as far as when Mark sees my body adapting to the training he’ll go, ‘Okay, Henry can do this,’ or ‘Henry can’t do this,’ or ‘His body will look better like that.’ It’ll be fine-tuned and tweaked as we go along. But I think it’s going to be a different sort of shape from Immortals.”
“There have been some concept costume fittings,” said Cavill. “I’m so excited - it’s fantastic. Really, really fantastic. Sometimes… I mean, I’m sitting here talking to you about being Superman, for example. And then it dawns on me and I go, ‘Oh my God, I’m Superman!’ It’s really exciting and an incredible opportunity, so as soon as I’m jumping into the costume and stuff it starts to become real.”
“As soon as you don the cape and the S shield, it’s one of those things where you go, ‘Wow - this is real.’
Cavill’s prep work includes some study in addition to the physical training. He told MTV News that he is picking out what he possibly can from the comic book history:
"because obviously it's plastered across there as to who this man is. ... It's just picking up a general idea of who he is and working from there."
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