However, Henry Cavill seemingly doesn't need anyone else's help to tank his own interviews. The star of the cumbersomely titled “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” has been on a charm offensive to promote his upcoming film, which lands in theaters Friday. The problem is that his press appearances have been more the latter than the former—clumsy, off-putting, and increasingly painful.
Jezebel's Madeleine Davies offers a helpful rundown of a press tour that's been a total “disaster.” Cavill has repeatedly reminded everyone that he doesn't care about what he's doing, he's just in it for the money. “I'm not just doing this for the art,” he told Man of the World. “The money's fantastic and that's something which I deem… very important.”
Such a remark would seem refreshingly honest if he didn't go on and on about his lavish lifestyle (spoiler: he loves first-class!), casually lament that NO ONE RECOGNIZED HIM while he trotted around in Times Square, and refer to #OscarsSoWhite as “racist.” “Maybe the solution is to have more diversity in the members,” he remarked to Man of the World. “But does that mean we are saying that to have more black Academy members would result in more black nominations? Is that not racist itself?”
As if to finish off Henry Cavill's scorched earth campaign against, well, himself, he further told Britain's The Sunday Times that there's a “double standard” when it comes to catcalling. “I mean, if a girl shouts something like 'Oi, love, fancy a shag?' to me as I walk past I do sometimes wonder how she'd feel if a builder said that to her,” he said. “Although, of course, I wouldn't feel physically threatened, as she might.”