‘Superman & Lois’ Superboy Actor, Alex Garfin, Talks James Gunn’s DCU & Whether He Would Join It

Alex Garfin, who plays Jordan Kent (Superboy) in Superman & Lois, shared his thoughts on James Gunn’s DC Universe and its direction. He also mentioned whether he would be interested in joining Gunn’s DC Universe after four seasons as Superboy.

Garfin discusses his views on the new Superman, played by David Corenswet. Having been part of this well-loved franchise for years, Garfin expressed that he believes Superman & Lois and Gunn’s DC Universe could have co-existed.

He also noted that the new direction is quite different from previous DC superhero versions and spoke highly of Gunn as a filmmaker.

Alex Garfin: Look, I feel my personal belief is that the two were different enough [that] they could have coexisted. It looks very different. I think that’s why James Gunn is so good at what he does, is that he makes it look – it’s not campy per se – It’s more like it just has this veneer of you’re watching something that is a little bit elevated from reality, which is very different from that Christopher Nolan’s school of when we saw the Dark Knight movies.

They were so incredible because they’re like, ‘Whoa, this looks like real life, and these characters are so interesting and dark,’ and I think Superman & Lois falls a little bit more in that Nolan-esque school of grounding these characters in something, whereas from other work I’ve seen of James Gunn, he goes the other direction, which I think is brilliant in itself.

I don’t know what his plan is with the Superman movie. I haven’t spoken to him. I’ve actually never met the guy. We’ve talked on Instagram briefly, so we’ll see what happens. We’ll see what happens.

Garfin also pointed out that DC’s recent changes might reflect how much the TV and film industry has shifted today. The Superman & Lois star remarked on the many transitions currently happening in Hollywood, as he shared the following:

Alex Garfin: It looks like they’re trying a new strategy. I don’t really know. I also know there are a lot of bigger mechanisms that work here. Warner Bros. also went through a transition. There’s a lot – the entire state of the entertainment industry is in a state of transition that I don’t know if we’re going to get out of anytime soon.

I definitely think it hit its bottom with the strike, but we’ll never see it was almost. It was a bit of a bubble in a way that they thought there was demand for all these very niche shows, and they kept making more and more and more content, and eventually there wasn’t enough screen time because our eyes were being drifted away now to TikTok and Instagram.

So whether or not James Gunn, taking it back to Superman & Lois, just wants to captain this ship in a way that he knows will work given that everything’s in flux, who knows? It’s a business decision at the end of the day.

Garfin was asked if he’d be interested in joining the new franchise if the opportunity came up. Having been with Superman & Lois since the start, he shared the types of roles he’d like to take on after his time as Jordan Kent, adding the following:

Alex Garfin: If I got that call, it’d be a different conversation. Obviously, in reality versus in theory, the characters I really want to play is probably something a little closer to myself now, though. I got to play this very subdued, very complex [character,] which is beautiful, and I’m so grateful I got to play it, but I would love to do someone that’s a little more extroverted like myself and try to show off a bit of range here.

I can’t speak about it, but I got really, really close to a project just like that. It didn’t work out, but it’s how it is. So that’s kind of what I’m going for now, is probably something more along the lines of actually something that James Gunn would write.

I know he’s a little bit more into making a comic book look like a comic book. He did that so brilliantly in his Suicide Squad, which is a rare time. I’ve seen a comic book movie. I know he did that with Guardians of the Galaxy. It has this fun to it.

So if I got a call to try to do something similar and things were a little more James Gunn-y, I wouldn’t be opposed. But then again, a lot of actors out there, and I think I would love to give someone else an opportunity as well.

Source: ScreenRant

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