"If you have a big success, it's fun to not have to live up to it."

Christopher Reeve chats to Terry Wogan about how being cast in the role of Superman changed his life, making him a global household name overnight. He talks about growing up in a family, whose "academic pretensions" forbade him from having comic books, and about how he became a film actor largely by accident. Reeves has now returned to the stage - his first love - where he is currently working on The Aspern Papers with Vanessa Redgrave.

In spite of the films' extraordinary success, does he ever regret taking the part of Superman? Can you ever truly emerge from the shadow of such an iconic role?


Clip taken from Wogan, originally broadcast on BBC One, 4 February, 1984.




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