“It’s really cool”: the single greatest album of all time, according to Henry Cavill
The career of Henry Cavill has evolved into a fascinating thing, if not always for the right reasons, with the actor in the strange position of having been famous for a long time without necessarily being a star.
He’s got plenty of fans, but not enough to make him a draw. That might sound harsh, but let’s look at the facts: he’s been in ten movies in the last ten years, and while one of them is the highest-grossing R-rated release of all time, he was hardly responsible for Deadpool & Wolverine‘s bumper box office haul.
Two of them were Netflix exclusives, one of them went straight to home video, Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle flopped, the theatrical version of Justice League lost a fortune, Guy Ritchie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare wasn’t released on the big screen outside of the United States, where it bombed, which makes Mission: Impossible – Fallout his only hit in the last decade.
Cavill was also the lead of one of the biggest shows on Netflix, but he quit The Witcher, and that’s without mentioning his reputation for being the unlucky sod who turned down a role in 300 to audition for Casino Royale, which he didn’t get, or losing parts in Twilight and Harry Potter to Robert Pattinson.
Despite being tall, ridiculously handsome, and alarmingly buff, he’s also a massive nerd. Gigantic, even. Fighting the good fight for the Warhammer and World of Warcraft fandoms, Cavill wears his geek badge proudly on his sleeve, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that his taste in music is far from conventional.
If you asked most people to name the one album they’d bring with them if they were banished to a deserted island, they’d pick something they’ve got a deep emotional, spiritual, or personal connection to, or one that’s packed with wall-to-wall classics that can be listened to in perpetuity without ever getting tired of it.
While that’s true in Cavill’s case, since it’s his pick and he’s allowed to take whatever he wants for the hypothetical banishment, it proved to be the latest example of the actor flying the flag for being the most muscular nerd in Hollywood. “The album is going to be a strange one,” he prefaced, accurately. “The Greatest Video Game Music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s really cool.”
You’re right, Henry, that is a strange one. Of all the albums ever recorded, if there was just one record the former Superman would choose to listen to forever, he’d opt for orchestral recordings of such seminal pieces as the theme from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the main song from Angry Birds, and ‘Gusty Garden Galaxy’ from Super Mario Galaxy.
As far as he’s concerned, you can stick the usual ‘greatest album of all time’ suspects up your arse: he’d much rather whittle away the rest of his life on a desert island listening to an album that features tunes from Tetris, Final Fantasy, BioShock, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion instead.
