When actor Amy Adams was asked about her Man of Steel co-star Henry Cavill’s chiselled looks, she gushed that they were “a little distracting”. Clapping eyes on him for the first time you understand exactly what she meant. The guy is tremendously well put together.
We’re in Venice in late summer, on the private island of San Clemente, where he’s trying on
Jaeger-LeCoultre watches for size, becoming the living, breathing embodiment of the Swiss watchmaker’s brawny Polaris Man pitch – it is the sportiest model in the Swiss house’s firmament – in his guise as “friend of the brand”.