Superman star Nicholas Hoult has gone from bald to blonde.
The 2-time Golden Globe Award nominee, 35, debuted platinum locks whereas selling Superman — through which he seems utterly bald as villain Lex Luthor — in New York Metropolis and London this week, alongside costars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan (who play the Man of Metal and Lois Lane, respectively). Hoult's followers undoubtedly appear to be feeling some hair-related whiplash from seeing him with two such distinct appears to be like.
“My mind doesn't have the capability to carry a single thought aside from blonde Nicholas Hoult,” one fan wrote via X, with one other quipping, “Blond Nicholas Hoult is absolutely f***ing doing it for me, my god. He's feeling himself and I too wish to really feel him.”
“Nicholas hoult genuinely appears to be like so good blonde like wtf,” an X user insisted. But another social media user joked, “Blonde nicholas hoult has bewitched me.”
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult in July 2025. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Photographs for Warner Bros
His Superman costar Brosnahan is seemingly a fan of Hoult going hairless as Lex Luthor, having just lately instructed Interview magazine on June 16 that he was “making bald males sizzling once more.”
Hoult has had some memorable hair transformations on the large and small screens all through his profession. He stole the hearts of a technology of British teenagers together with his brunette bangs whereas portraying highschool dangerous boy Tony Stonem within the coming-of-age drama sequence Skins.
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He beforehand went bald — and sported unforgettable chrome struggle paint — because the renegade Warfare Boys member Nux in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Highway and was coated head to toe in blue fur as Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast within the X-Males motion pictures.
He revealed to Bleeding Cool in 2011 that it actually took “4 hours” every single day on the set of X-Males: First Class to use Beast's signature fur.
“As soon as the transformation to Beast takes place, that's 4 hours of make-up and prosthetics with a full masks and wigs and fur and an enormous rubber muscle go well with. That's fairly a metamorphosis,” he acknowledged.
Nicholas Hoult in June 30, 2025. TheStewartofNY/GC Photographs
Hoult has most just lately adopted within the footsteps of the late Gene Hackman and Jesse Eisenberg by enjoying the enduring DC Comics villain Lex Luthor in director James Gunn's Superman. He honored Luthor's basic comedian e book look by going utterly bald for the blockbuster.
At Superman's U.Ok. premiere on Tuesday, July 1, Hoult revealed that somebody very particular helped him get able to play Lex.
“I shaved [my hair],” he confirmed to the Associated Press. “It was nice. I really obtained my older son to get the clippers and I stated, ‘Go on. Do your worst!'”
Requested whether or not he was “scared” of the newbie haircut, Hoult admitted: “No, it was clipper! I imply, there was solely a lot [he could do]. And likewise, [my hair] was all going anyway so it wasn't like he might give me a nasty haircut!”
Hoult and his spouse, mannequin Bryana Holly, share two youngsters: 6-year-old son Joaquin and a second youngster whose title has not been publicly revealed. Hoult seemingly confirmed he'd privately wed Holly by referring to her as his “spouse” on the Governors Awards in Los Angeles in November 2024.
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The couple have not often spoken about their relationship since getting collectively in 2017, although Hoult was uncharacteristically direct when requested whether or not he'd secretly wed Holly in November 2024.
“I believe it's pretty clear,” he instructed People on the time.
Superman hits theaters Friday, July 11.
