Regé-Jean Page didn’t look enough like “young Henry Cavill” to be Superman’s grandpa

When Netflix announced Regé-Jean Page won’t return for the second season of Bridgerton, fans were pissed. Some even declared they wouldn’t tune in for the new season. Page is in part what made Bridgerton one of Netflix’s most massively successful shows, with great acting chops and looks that’d even make Karens swoon. But despite how much attention Page got for his role in the hit Netflix series, the actor didn’t have the best time finding roles at the beginning of his career.
In The Hollywood Reporter’s big piece on Ray Fisher’s allegations of his experience on the Justice League set, Kim Masters writes that multiple sources told her that Krypton’s creators “were passionate about doing some nontraditional casting” and Page had auditioned for the lead role of Superman’s grandfather. But co-chairman of DC Films Geoff Johns allegedly shut down that idea, with the role going to Cameron Cuffe. His rep told THR that “Johns believed fans expected the character to look like a young Henry Cavill.”