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 fully 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.
“My mind doesn’t have the capability to carry a single thought apart from blonde Nicholas Hoult,” one fan wrote via X, with one other quipping, “Blond Nicholas Hoult is admittedly f***ing doing it for me, my god. He’s feeling himself and I too wish to really feel him.”
“Nicholas hoult genuinely appears 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 Photos 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 massive and small screens all through his profession. He stole the hearts of a technology of British teenagers along with his brunette bangs whereas portraying highschool unhealthy boy Tony Stonem within the coming-of-age drama sequence Skins.
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He beforehand went bald — and sported unforgettable chrome conflict paint — because the renegade Battle Boys member Nux in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Highway and was lined 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” day-after-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 a giant rubber muscle go well with. That’s fairly a change,” he acknowledged.
Nicholas Hoult in June 30, 2025. TheStewartofNY/GC Photos
Hoult has most just lately adopted within the footsteps of the late Gene Hackman and Jesse Eisenberg by taking part in the enduring DC Comics villain Lex Luthor in director James Gunn’s Superman. He honored Luthor’s basic comedian e book look by going fully bald for the blockbuster.
At Superman’s U.Okay. 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 truly acquired my older son to get the clippers and I mentioned, ‘Go on. Do your worst!’”
Requested whether or not he was “scared” of the novice haircut, Hoult admitted: “No, it was clipper! I imply, there was solely a lot [he could do]. And in addition, [my hair] was all going anyway so it wasn’t like he may give me a foul haircut!”
Hoult and his spouse, mannequin Bryana Holly, share two kids: 6-year-old son Joaquin and a second baby whose identify 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 hardly ever 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 feel it’s pretty clear,” he instructed People on the time.
Superman hits theaters Friday, July 11.