5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About New Superman Henry Cavill

2. He Used to be Chunky

People in glass houses probably shouldn’t be throwing about words like “chunky”, but it’s interesting to hear when the buff, attractive people who greet us from the covers of magazines turn out not to have been gifted with some alien genetic advantage, but in fact had to work to become so pretty.

By his own admission, it seems that Mr. Cavill wasn’t always quite so ripped as he is now: in a recent interview, he revealed that during his teenage years at boarding school he picked up the unflattering sobriquet “Fat Cavill”. While we can’t imagining anyone picking on the immaculately coiffured god who seems ready to soar into action in Man of Steel, it’s strangely comforting to know that Cavill, at least, isn’t entirely a different species.