RICHARD DONNER on Christopher Reeve being typecast as Superman (“Life After Flash” outtake)

The idea of an actor becoming such a popular character like christopher reeve and superman Sam Jones 39, flash gordon is that something as an actor that it’s really hard to break away from, because people love you so much as that character. I’m afraid you’re right.

I’m afraid you’re right that people again were abusing the word icon because they became those characters and they were iconic to the world and um.

It was very hard for in the relationship i i was involved in for christopher to break away from being superman.

In reality, he was a damn good little actor, but people would either compare him to car to clark or superman or or somewhere in his his head.

He was trying to break away from that image.

When i cast him, i had seen him in a play off broadway or in the village actually um.

I forget to play almost the summer stock piece and um, where i believe he played two characters.

One himself won his grandfather um and he he was a wonderful actor, charming actor.

If he had never done superman.

I really believe he would have gone on and i had a a career has a leading man, the fact that he was superman, i think, held him back in many many areas. I think it does.

The industry says there’s a jinx that’s stupid.

I don’t believe in texas, unless you jinx yourself, but um that’s a major.

It is a big problem for these actors to get out of that image that i am i am me, i am an actor.

I can to give me the role.

I’ll show you and they get stuck in this thing and, and they’re compared to it the rest of their lives.

It’s um, it’s, a strange relationship with the general public .