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Henry Cavill has yet another new interview, this time with the Sunday Times (UK). I continue to be astonished by how much press Cavill is doing compared to the Batfleck – their film comes out two Fridays from now! Surely the Batfleck is going to get in promotional mode soon, right? Otherwise, we’re going to have to start calling him The Largely Absent Batfleck. Anyway, this Cavill interview is notable because Cavill seems to be saying that he’s the victim of sexism, or that he gets objectified and grossly propositioned the same way as any given woman. Some assorted quotes:

Ladies catcall him, apparently: “There’s a bit of a double standard, you know. I mean, if a girl shouts something like, ‘Oi, love, fancy a shag?’ to me as I walk past, I do sometimes wonder how she’d feel if a builder said that to her. Although, of course, I wouldn’t feel physically threatened, as she might.”

He hates when women approach him when he’s with his girlfriend: “I’ve heard some things in my time, I have to say. I’d best not say what. I don’t mind it – not unless I’m with my girlfriend and someone is being complimentary to me in order to disrespect her. People who don’t respect other people’s feelings really get my goat.”

He’s in touch with his feelings: “Everyone should be entitled to their full range of emotions. Whether they display them in public or not is a different debate, but, um – sorry! – yes, the acknowledgment that people feel things is important, on both sides of the, um, sex fence.”

He seems to understand the pressure his girlfriend feels? “The pressure that comes from dating someone in the public eye is enormous. Because that person’s fans of the opposite sex dislike you, there’s often a deep and nasty backlash, which is incredibly unfounded and unfair.”

[From People Magazine]

Well… at least he acknowledges that a man catcalling a woman is a different thing than when the genders are reversed. And not to doubt his story too much, but… are women catcalling him all the time or something? Or did it just happen once or twice, like “Hey, Superman, fancy a shag?” As for people disrespecting his 19-year-old girlfriend… I don’t know. Maybe people just don’t know what to say to her? Like, what would you say to her? “How are your studies going?” Or, “what’s your favorite class at college?” Is that disrespectful?

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