“That was really unfortunate,” Gunn continued. “So Peter and I [thought] the right thing to do was to sit down with [Cavill] and talk to him. And we sat down and we talked to him. He was an absolute gentleman, a great guy about it. He said, ‘The only thing I ask is that I’m able to reveal it myself as opposed to it coming from you guys.'”

When James Gunn took over the new direction for DC's superhero movies, one of the earliest decisions was about letting go of Henry Cavill as the then-incumbent Superman. In a new interview with Josh Horowitz for the Happy Sad Confused podcast,