Christopher Reeve will always be the Man of Steel to millennials and Generation X. The Cavill-Corenswet discourse doesn’t bother them. However, during the original series of movies, the role wasn’t always a guarantee for Reeve. He almost didn’t get the part in the first place, and then he almost lost it. Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, and a bunch of other famous actors were ahead of Reeve on the priority list, but they all hated spandex.