Henry Cavill posts moving tribute video to his shaved moustache
#ShavedButNotForgotten
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We must, hard as it may be, deal with the loss of Henry Cavill‘s moustache. The actor took to Instagram to announce that his upper-lip friend had bitten the dust, while memorialising its brief but vibrant life with McLachlan’s famous “I Will Remember You”.
Of course, Cavill’s moustache managed to cause a small crisis at Warner Bros. Studios: when the actor was required to return for Justice League reshoots, Paramount insisted that the moustache that had been grown in the meantime for Cavill’s role in Mission: Impossible – Fallout could not be shaven. No matter the circumstances.
Which left Warner Bros. scrambling to digitally remove the offending facial hair in post-production, resulting in some less-than-desirable shots of Superman with a disconcertingly blurred top lip.
“Hello, don’t be alarmed. It’s me, Henry Cavill. Sometime superhero and former secret agent,” the actor says in the Instagram video. “But now, completely clean-shaven. I know, it’s hard to recognise me without KingStache. Sometimes I even have trouble recognising myself.”
"It's hard for me to admit: this is not CGI. He's really gone. I can tell you this though, I will remember him, always."
As Cavill added to his post: “#ShavedButNotForgotten”.
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