David Corenswet Admits He’s The Eagles’ Bad Luck Charm In Hilarious Interview

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David Corenswet had that moment when he was confronting the ugly truth about his meets-and-begs kind of relationship with the Eagles. Let’s say the guy really should stay away from TV screens come football season. He breezed through a quick Philadelphia-themed Q&A session with People Magazine, wherein the locals nodded and laughed at his painfully real sports takes.

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The interview led into some classic Philly food wars: cheesesteak or hoagie (he mentioned hoagies for variety), Wawa or Sheetz (he went with Wawa just because he doesn’t know what Sheetz is-the cure for fainting among any real local)-but it really was the Eagles confession that caused a stir. “Every time I watch they lose, it’s a terrible blight,” the actor said with the weary voice of someone who’d endured yet another fourth-quarter heartbreak. The actor joked about being “the one fan that every time they watch they lose,” which either makes him the most self-aware celeb sports fan ever or certainly someone who must be banned from Lincoln Financial Field immediately.

Philly sports anguish instantly struck a chord: One user wrote, “Hey! Thanks for not watching games if they’re going to lose if you do. We are so superstitious it’s not even funny. Go birds!” This shows just how deep irrational sports beliefs run down the City of Brotherly Love. Another commenter beseeched, “Don’t watch at all next season. We about to run this super bowl back,” suggesting Corenswet might have to make the sacrifice of watching no games in 2024.

The Sheetz controversy spawned a mini-drama in the comment section. Corenswet’s ignorance of the Pennsylvania chain sent one commenter gasping, “How do you not know what Sheetz is??? Oh my god.” This launched a heated regional debate of Wawa supremacy versus Sheetz loyalty. Defenders were quick to point out that real Philly residents don’t have Sheetz locations close by. One explained, “he knows what Sheetz is, we just don’t acknowledge its existence over here”—an acknowledgment indicating convenience store tribalism runs deep in the Keystone State.

His charming indecisiveness returned when asked to choose between two Philly icons, Jason Kelce and Allen Iverson. Someone seemed too excited in the comments to say, “the way he like couldn’t pick between people he’s so unserious we love you david,” after his stammering response of “How do you choose between they’re both people?” Things would only get worse (or better) for his Philly cred with the local question, “Rocky or Rocky II?” (Going with the former because he’s never seen the latter—someone get this man a movie marathon, stat!)

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The interview then took a turn with some classic Philly nostalgia as Corenswet threw “down the shore” over “to the Poconos” and paid respects to the Philly Phanatic over Gritty (controversial, but from a Philly kid, understandable). What should have been a light-hearted interview morphed into a full-throttle dive into Philly culture since it seems that even when he’s putting on his indelible hat as the Man of Steel, Corenswet isn’t entirely untethered from his Philly roots-unless it’s that unshakable Eagles curse. Maybe DC should turn that as his real-life bad luck, aka his Kryptonite, in the next Superman movie?