David Corenswet received a – quite literally – ball-busting injury while filming Superman

Superman star David Corenswet’s performance put every inch of his body to the test after the star revealed a ball-breaking injury he received on set.

The 32-year-old star, who plays Clark Kent in the 2025 reboot of Hollywood’s favourite Kryptonian crusader, proved that even the Man of Steel should consider wearing a cup after suffering an injury to his testicles during filming.

During a joint interview with Vanity Fair alongside co-star Nicholas Hoult, who plays Lex Luthor in the film, the pair were hooked up to a lie detector and asked each other a variety of wacky questions.

Asked by Hoult which part of his body received the “wildest bruise” during filming of Superman’s action sequences, Corenswet admitted his “right testicle” received the worst beating.

“There’s footage from filming of me getting pulled through the air. It’s this wonderful, epic moment; it’s in the trailer,” he told Hoult. “In the beginning of it where I stand up and punch the glass out and then I leap out the window and fly through the air.

“And the first take of that, it’s this big epic punch and a leap through the air and then just, ‘my testicle’.”

After polygraph expert, Stephanie Jackson, confirmed the story was indeed true, Corenswet responded: “Oh yeah, I couldn’t lie about that, it’s on film.”

It appears that Corenswet sacrificing his family jewels for our entertainment was worth it after the film debuted to positive reviews earlier this week.

Premiering in the UK on Friday (11 July), the film has received a whopping 82 per cent on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a 4-star rating on Letterboxd, although actor Dean Cain, who played Clark Kent and his lycra-clad alter ego Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997 alongside Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher, didn’t agree, slamming the new film as “woke”.

However, reviewers who loved the film commended for its rendition of the DC superhero, with one writing: “It doesn’t get more Superman than this.”

Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson called the film “shrewdly balanced” with a mix of “flippant merriment and real dramatic stakes.”

The Wall Street Journal’s Kyle Smith, who was less convinced by the film, wrote that director James Gunn is “determined tgo shake things up a lot, and does,” but admitted that “different, however, is not always good.”