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DC Universe Slate REVEALED: Superman, Batman & More
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's proposal astir being Superman from Brandon Routh!
The actor—who impermanent stars connected the March 6 occurrence of Quantum Leap—knows a happening oregon 2 astir playing the Man of Steel. After all, Brandon got his large interruption arsenic the titular superhero successful 2006's Superman Returns.
So, with the quality that DC Comics is moving on from Henry Cavill—who has played Superman for the workplace since 2013—Brandon exclusively told E! News astir his biggest proposal for whoever takes implicit the relation next.
"The astir important happening astir Superman is that helium is simply a teacher, archetypal and foremost," Brandon said. "Putting that arsenic a direction, you can't spell wrong. You can't overreach due to the fact that past you go dogmatic."
Brandon explained that erstwhile it comes to playing the Man of Tomorrow, it's not astir reveling successful the spectacle and aura of what makes him heroic.
"It's knowing that Superman's relation is not conscionable to prevention the day," Brandon continued. "It's to assistance each humanity find a amended way forward."
On his ain way guardant successful Hollywood, Brandon has been taking immoderate of Superman's gusto with him to his different roles.
On the March 6 occurrence of Quantum Leap, Brandon plays commanding serviceman XO Alexander Augustine connected a naval battleship successful 1989. Oh, and he's besides the begetter of Addison (Caitlin Bassett).
To play the stoic, reserved subordinate of the equipped forces, Brandon referred backmost to his Superman days to unlock everything.
"I really unconsciously tapped into that energy," Brandon explained. "He has truthful galore quiescent moments unsocial wherever he's flying oregon lasting and determination has to beryllium thing connected your face. There was conscionable a batch of interior enactment that I had done specifically for that relation that I deliberation I tapped into with this guy."
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Caitlin, who stars connected Quantum Leap successful her archetypal nonrecreational acting gig ever, told E! News she was "so tense and excited to conscionable Brandon," but came distant relieved.
"He could not beryllium nicer," she said of her co-star. "He was truthful lukewarm and truthful unfastened and truthful inviting. He ne'er made maine consciousness similar a small babe actor. It was conscionable truly wonderful."
Once a superhero, ever a superhero.
Quantum Leap airs Mondays astatine 10 p.m. connected NBC.
(E! and NBC are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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