Since March 2023, Corenswet has been married to actor Julia Best Warner, whom he met at an acting summer camp when he was still a young boy. Though their wedding was years ago, the pair only made their red-carpet debut this week, at the Los Angeles premiere of Superman. Warner and Corenswet also have a one-year-old son.

When director James Gunn, steward of the high-flying new Superman reboot, was recently asked to list his favourite comic book movies, he singled out Richard Donner’s beautifully brash 1978 take on the Man of Steel – the film generally credited with firing the starter pistol for the modern cinematic superhero era.