Nicholas Hoult Got His Superman Audition By Sliding Into James Gunn's DMs

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Nicholas Hoult is no stranger to big blockbusters. From playing Beast in the "X-Men" movies to his work in "Mad Max: Fury Road," the actor has been around the block. He's come by the work honestly. That's not to say he came by his role as Lex Luthor in "Superman" dishonestly , but it's the first time in his impressive career that he actually slid into a director's DMs to try and get a part.

The new book "Superman: The Art and Making of the Film" by author James Field is filled with tons of behind-the-scenes details from the making of James Gunn's DC blockbuster. Hoult plays Lex Luthor alongside David Corenswet's Superman, and the actor revealed in the book that he literally slid into Gunn's DMs to land the highly-coveted