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Clark Kent isn’t the only one rocking frames in Superman.
Mikaela Hoover, who plays Cat Grant in the 2025 superhero movie, reveals in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE that she contributed her own glasses to her costume.
“Those are my glasses that I wore as Cat, so I better get those back,” the actress, 41, says of her character’s oversize black frames that she wears throughout the movie.
“The dresses were so much fun,” she adds, before praising a special person on set.
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“The costume designer and I worked together to bring how Cat dressed in the comics to real life,” Hoover shares of Judianna Makovsky. “It’s so much fun when somebody’s willing to collaborate with you like that. The costume designer is a genius. I had worked with her previously. She just always knows the right things to put her actors in.”
The new Superman movie is directed and written by James Gunn and stars David Corenswet as the titular character, a.k.a. Clark Kent, and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. Hoover’s Cat is one of the Daily Planet writers alongside Clark and Lois.
As for working with Gunn, the actress says she “asked him a couple questions from the comics,” but he ultimately trusted her to take the lead.
“He just kept saying, ‘Bring yourself into this role as much as you can and also honor the comics,’ because he knew that I had done my research on the comics. It was easy to bring them both together and make Cat,” she explains.
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Hoover previously starred in episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Happy Endings and Anger Management. She has worked with Gunn on several other projects, including his 2010 dark comedy Super and 2021’s The Suicide Squad.
The actress is set to star as Tony Tony Chopper in season 2 of Netflix’s live-action One Piece series.
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Corenswet previously spoke with PEOPLE about wearing the iconic Man of Steel costume, saying, “There are lots of zippers, but there’s no single zipper that allows me to go to the bathroom, which you would think would be quite straightforward.”
However, he explained that it didn’t pose any issues on set because he “had the most amazing dresser you could ask for.”
“[The dresser] was always in my ear going, ‘Do you need a break? Do you need a break? Tell ‘em you need a break and we can step you out. I’ll tell him it’s me,’ ” Corenswet said.
