Michael Shannon reveals that he was thunderstruck when he was offered a role in the new Superman movie. The actor plays General Zod in Man of Steel and he took the part without even seeing the script.

He told Daily Telegraph: ”When I got a call from director Zack Snyder saying, ‘Come to my house in Pasadena, I want to pitch you ‘Man of Steel’, I was a little flabbergasted. I wasn’t aware that I was in that club. I didn’t think anything like that would ever fall in my lap. So I went out there, and he didn’t show me the script but he basically pitched the entire film.”

Michael recently spoke about how he never thought he would be working on a movie like that and said it would have been impossible to turn down the role. ”I can’t fathom how people would say no to ‘Man of Steel’. I thought they were pulling my leg… Then I got on set, and realized they were serious. I had no qualms about doing it. I loved it. When I started acting, I never thought I would be in a Superman movie so it’s pretty neat. I did some big blockbusters before, but never this prominent a role,” he said.

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