I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.

Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.

There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the character. So as much as the script is born from the source material, there are certain limitations.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool.

If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don't think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don't think, "Bond is going to come and save me." Superman is a different sort of idealized figure.