10 Tiny Details Actors Requested For Movies
3. Henry Cavill Requested To Keep His Hairy Chest - Man Of Steel
Of the myriad divisive things about Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, many Superman fans took umbrage with the superhero showing off a distinctly hairy chest during the oil rig rescue sequence.
This was actually a request from Henry Cavill himself, who when asked to shave his chiselled bod, fired back with a primo comic book reference to state his case for keeping Supes' chest hairy:
"It's something that I wanted because in the comic book 'The Death of Superman,' there's this bit where his costume's ripped, and he's making the ultimate sacrifice and he's got this hairy chest and I was like 'Okay, Why is the perception that because he's muscly, he must have no body hair?' And I thought, 'Why can't we just do that, like in the comic books?' And so we did."
Haters be-damned, it ensured Cavill's stocky, beefcake Superman had a look quite unlike any other live-action iteration of the DC icon.