Superman Returns' BRANDON ROUTH talks Superman Expectations vs. Reality 

Totally!!!! Hollywood is dirty. I think it was because he was from small town Midwest?

Yeah i agree. I dont think it was because was from a small town. I think it had a lot to do with timing, them constantly creating new versions and so on.

@@jm7720 So sad for Routh. Such a nice fellow and did a great job.

I only support him because I hate Brit actors undercutting US/CA actors needing work to do US/CA characters in TV/Films, so Brits are cheaper or stereotyped as better trained. Also Brandon is from my state atleast parallels Clark Kent rural upbringing. Otherwise Tom Welling/Smallville's cast should've had Routh's movie if it had been nowadays film/TV multiverse no problem BS.

He has made a few dollars from his many jobs. I'd say he is doing very well for himself. Hollywood? Isn't that the town somewhere in California that has people fleeing from it? So many vacant and abandoned properties no one knows the exact count. Canada is becoming the new Hollywood I predict. Ameraican's are broke and theater's are closed. Likely we will soon see a comeback of the Drive-in theater.

Also, The Flash and Superman have a heart to heart. :D

Who was the flash up there?

Smooth Keys michael voiced the flash in the JL animated series

Word? That's what's up

The Flash and The Atom swallow some mushrooms and go on ranting for almost 90 mins.

sammy

i agree its bloody fabulous.

its the best if you finally can do what you love, great work!

The production and writing for the last few seasons on the CW have gotten so horrible; it's really a shame.

​@@docsavage873 The turning point was when Felicity got up from that wheelchair. Some shows slid into shit (looking at you Supergirl) faster than others (cough Legends cough), but it was downhill from there for the Arrowverse.

season 3 flash was trash until 5 only good thing about 4 was Ralph Iris felicity and rip hunter were kisses of death

Yeah. But once you play Superman AND Clark Kent convincingly, as Brandon did so well and really bring the myth to the screen, you have done something few actors get to do. That role will stay with Brandon for the rest of his life. And all of the cool other roles he plays are just building his reputation as a man able to convince the World of the possibility he might be actually Superman. If only for that one Movie or TV show. **** Michael. You portrayed one of the great villains Lex Luthor. And you played the role longer than any human on Earth. Tom Welling and yourself have that in common. You have deeply etched your roles into the mind's of viewers.

Ikr!!!.

I will love you forever jeje😘

Lex.... your pods interview are the best Michael. 🤙

Dig it brother! Routh and you in a Kingdom Come mini-series?

Yeah man. You are good at this gig. Build it. As an actor you are good. Channel that into your interviewer skills. You are a natural.

God bless you, Mr. Rosenbaum :))))

Thank you! While I thought much of the acting was decent, I personally thought the movie overall sucked. It's no surprise there were no sequels. I remember the DVD sales even tanked fairly early on. But I loved him on Legends

The movie was much more sincere, and more critically praised, than Man of Steel. But definitely producing issues/planning a long haul story, where a sequel could have solved things.

Yea he was the ONLY reason I was watching it in the first place. I was so upset when Lex Luther killed him. I really wish he played a bigger part in the crossover than what he did.

Sebastian Molina same here!! I couldn’t believe they killed him off to bring Lex back! Lex was so annoying! John Wesley Shipp was great as well!!

@@javiercarrillo2156 exactly and i feel like they really sold crisis on the back of Routh's kingdom come superman

Now the only thing that we can hope for now is if that superman show with him is true the post-crisis series that is unlimited that will go on either the CW or HBO Max. Also guys, this is a rumor.

justwar12 It would also be cool if they made a Kingdom Come movie

Oh, and let's have Michael as Lex. Everybody would want to see this!

​@@theotherchannel2279 Brandon Routh used to get the exact same criticism that the current superman is getting (Hoechlin). " He´s too young", "too skinny", "too much wooden acting..." I can´t wait for 2030, when we get a new superman actor, and everybody goes "I miss tyler hoechlin so much, he was my sups..." I can´t stand people who live trapped in a romantic (and fake) version of the past.

@@gabrielp9646, not living in the past at all. Brandon stole the show with his interpretation of Superman, he owned it and it showed with all the love he got. He has shown why he deserves another go at being Superman. Did I put down Hoechlin? No, do I also want to see Tom Welling in the Superman costume, of course, I do! You are too harsh to judge a fan of Superman. You know there will always only be one Superman, right!

@@theotherchannel2279 Yeah sure, great logic. Many people love the SW prequels today, they would say those movies have "shown why they are actually good, with all the love they´re getting". Still a pile of shit, tho.

@@gabrielp9646 Hoechlin sucks

that gives me the sads. brandon is such a great guy (and so is stephen) and to hear them leaving on a bad note from these shows that they were a part of for so long. they deserve better.

I found it interesting that both Superman actors played a lot of World of Warcraft. I wonder if Dean Cain ever played WoW.

Can you please link the time frame when he talks about this? And what happened with Stephen?

@HydroBro I haven't watched it myself yet but the podcast with Stephen is on this channel from a month ago. You might find out what happened with him there. I'm listening to it after this one. :-)

HydroBro Stephen had issues filming scenes because of issues with how the Crossover was filmed and how some of the main stars had contracts that meant they could only be on set for a certain number of hours before they had to return to their own shows. This meant there were times he was on set for hours waiting to film scenes with not a lot else he could do. Then when it came time to film some of his most important scenes and especially his characters final scenes, the actors he had been expecting to work with and act with were then not available to shoot the scenes because they’d used up all their hours. So then Stephen is having to act scenes imagining the other actors are there and trying to deliver an emotional performance to a tennis ball. He then wondered why the producers wasted so many hours on wide shots or scenery shots where you couldn’t see the actors up close and instead thought maybe those scenes should have been shot with the doubles leaving the likes of Grant, Mellisa and Caity enough hours to film the important character scenes.

ZOD4 I thought he willfully left 😭

@@francheska3128 Unfortunately not. :(

Why did they write him off? Ray is fav character and he was there from the beginning. Legends isn't GOT the main characters should be alive for the whole show

@@ARBLACKx He isn't going to die and they "officially" said they took him out because his story with Nora is ending but most people agree that the reason they're taking him off is because Brandon Routh is one of the more higher paying if not the highest paid actor on Legends and they're kicking him off for budgetary reasons. I wish they wouldn't though.

@@francheska3128 Nope. It's a CW budget move. Brandon is one of the highest paid actors on the show because he has so many credits to his name. Because of that unfortunately Dom may be next on the chopping block since he has even more acting credits to his name than Brandon does (the recent introduction of Mick's daughter to the show already feels like a convenient way for them to eventually write Mick out). The CW has always been stingy about paying their actors and Legends is an ensemble cast without a true titular character (unlike the other Arrowverse shows).

He left lot what that?

@@anteprs7908 i remember it being presented that he wanted to leave for his family. Living in California and working in Vancouver isn't easy so for a lot of shows there is a shall we say shelf life for them being up there.

he plays the best character in LoT. Ray Palmer is literally the heart of the show. idk if i'm going to be interested in watching LoT without him. his unbridled positivity is what set the show apart from every other CWverse show.

His character is too expensive for the CW budget

He shares his video game addiction with cavill the difference either cavill still is a geek but mads enough money and has a enough star power to get those roles and not let it impeded him

HI RAGHU

This is the one dude I've seen comment on a shit ton of random videos

Don’t forget Atom.

@@ChuckDogg yes I know. Originally it was suppose to be Ted Kord the blue beetle and they made references to Kord Industries but for some reason they changed it to Ray Palmer the Atom. I guess maybe they are going to use Ted Kord for the Cinematic universe.

It was interesting when talking about 'black' and 'white', good and bad coming from both Superman and Lex (Mr Rosenbaum is still my favourite Luthor). The other aspect is they both have experience working on CW shows (would've been cool to have them compare notes)

I was always saying that since he played Superman and I loved it! He's my top fave man who had played Superman. 😍 He just gave me Christopher Reeves feels and I love it!

When I tell you despite what anyone would say I absolutely LOVED Brandon as Superman! I thought he was amazing and watching him just gave me thr same feelings I use to have when I was a kid watching Christopher Reeves as Superman.. I couldn't stop smiling! I thought he didn't have a fair chance to continue in the role so for a long time I was mad by it but when they said he was going to put on the suit again for the cross over 😍😍😍😍 I was so excited! It made my day watching him. He's on my list for men I love who played Superman.. Christopher Reeves, Brandon Routh, Dean Cain and Tom Welling 😍😍😍😍😍 I loved him in Scott Pilgrim another one of my favorite movies and enjoyed him on Legends.. He's a wonderful actor and I hope to see more of him in other roles 😍😍 Ok I will stop fangirling now 😍😍😍❤️❤️ Listening to him talk about going in for roles.. Sounds like how I feel when I go in for interviews.. No matter how many times you do you the nerves will be there.

@ He definitely sounds a lot like him.

I agree F.Kusuma! I felt like he resembled him a lot. It was why I loved the movie and went and saw it three times. I was thrilled to see him play SM again for the cross over. 👍😎

@Jesus is God still talking about Superman? Clark is my savior.

Yeah. Stop confusing George REEVES with Christopher REEVE.

You can see a lot of pain in his eyes regarding that whole ordeal. Great man, can’t wait to see what’s next for him.

I only watched for him bc he’s the cutest

@David Coleman Brandon Routh used to get the exact same criticism that the current superman is getting (Hoechlin). " He´s too young", "too skinny", "too much of a baby face", "too much wooden acting..." I can´t wait for 2030, when we get a new superman actor, and everybody goes "I miss tyler hoechlin so much, he was my sups..." I can´t stand people who live trapped in a romantic (and fake) version of the past. People who can´t enjoy what they have. Like a kid who gets a new action figure from his parents, and cries "Nooo!! I wanted a different one!!" 42 is not that young to play REGULAR superman, tho.

I just got a chub thinking about that #Pride

True dat DC! He was awesome as SM!

Henry Cavill is the DCEU's perfect Superman, i want Brandon for an elsworld's HBOMax Kingdom Come Superman series instead.

cheers :)

love it!

I'll always hear his voices when I am thinking about the Flash

@@dennysantoso578 Wally West--the greatest Flash.

Lol, who isn’t genuine

@Clyde Disney Brandon Routh used to get the exact same criticism that the current superman is getting (Hoechlin). " He´s too young", "too skinny", "too much wooden acting..." I can´t wait for 2030, when we get a new superman actor, and everybody goes "I miss tyler hoechlin so much, he was my sups..." I can´t stand people who live trapped in a romantic (and fake) version of the past.

@@gabrielp9646 TBH, I'm not sure it would be the case, as nobody really says that about Dean Cain. I really liked Lois & Clark and him in the role (though his crooked 'S' BOTHERED THE HELL OUT OF ME!). He is seen as somebody in the role during the 90s.

​@@dannyr2976 I know, Im 28. I used to watch Lois & Clark as a kid. But yes, it would be the case. I remember watching the fisrt on set pictures of Superman Returns, I remember watching the trailers on TV, I remember watching the movie in the theatre, and I remember the amount of negative reviews that came about 1 week later. Everybody was saying the EXACT SAME THING about Routh "He´s too young, too skinny, and not manly enough" or "He´s not a good enough actor, he´s too green and wooden" (which was also said about Dean Cain & Tom Welling, btw). And I wasn´t even a huge follower of movie news back then, and even I knew how it was "trendy" to hate on Superman Returns, and call that movie cheesy, silly, outdated... (very similar to how it became trendy to hate on BvS, or the last season of GOT. Very similar to what people are saying about Tyler Hoechlin right now. "He´s not tall enough" despite the fact that he is just as tall as Henry Cavill. Or "He doesn´t have enough muscles", despite the fact that he is way, WAY more jacked than Routh was in Superman Returns). Im not saying that´s what I thought about the movie btw, Im saying that´s what everybody was saying back then. Also, Dean Cain wore two Superman suits, the first one didn´t have a crooked "S" emblem.

Gabriel P Jesus, How specific are you and stop copying and Pasting the same sentence over and over again.

Brandon Routh used to get the exact same criticism that the current superman is getting (Hoechlin). " He´s too young", "too skinny", "too much of a baby face..." I can´t wait for 2030, when we get a new superman actor, and everybody goes: "I miss tyler hoechlin so much, he was so good..." I can´t stand people who live trapped in a romantic (and fake) version of the past, like you. Like a kid who gets an action figure from his parents, and starts crying "Nooo!! I wanted a different one".

@@gabrielp9646 Stop spamming that

@@user-rv4wn5qk7q Why?

@@gabrielp9646 Desnecessary. Even though I agree with you.

Gabriel P Because it’s annoying.