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I have no memory of this, but apparently there was a rumor circa 2002-03 that Jude Law was being considered to play Superman. Have you heard this? I remember the build-up to the reboot of the franchise, and how disappointed people were when Brandon Routh eventually got the part. I also remember that it took a while for Routh to get cast, and the reboot went through several different directors too. But I have no memory of Jude Law being in the running. You have to remember, back in those days, Jude was a HUGE deal. He’s still a wonderful actor and he still gets a lot of work now, but Jude Law circa 2002-05 was a major celebrity/heartthrob. Anyway, during an interview with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, Jude discussed how he was also wearing the cape:

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(Sidenote: Jude Law looks SO HOT in this video, right? I think he just got me pregnant.)

Jude says he kept turning down a chance to audition and all of the meetings they wanted with him to play Superman, because:

“At the time… I’m open to it now, although no one is going to ask me to play him now, I’m too old, but at the time I ahhhh, I really didn’t want to. I just sort of thought, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life being that guy who played Superman. If you ever got smoking a fag… you’ll ruin the lives of all the children around the world. I also thought about my kids, like ‘Daddy’s Superman?’ I couldn’t, I couldn’t…”

He goes on to say that Brett Ratner convinced him to just try the caped costume on and Jude did put it on and he was feeling it and he could even hear the famous Superman score in his head, but that putting the costume had a weird effect on him: he got it out of his system. He just needed to wear it once and then he was fine.

So, we’re living in a world where Jude Law was almost Superman. WHOA. I think that would have been such weird casting. And Jude’s a blondie!! Superman is supposed to have dark hair, people. Now, I would be open – and Jude sounds open to it too – to seeing Jude in some kind of superhero movie in some way. He has all of those child support payments to make too. (I wonder if his ex-girlfriend has given birth yet?)

Vintage Jude Law:

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