Superman actor Henry Cavill clears 7 million views building beefy gaming PC
Henry Cavill arrives for a screening of “Mission Impossible – Fallout” at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on July 22. Image: AFP/Alex Edelman via AFP Relaxnews
Who knew that five minutes of hardware maintenance would prove so popular?
Henry Cavill had already played “The Witcher” as a video game before personifying its main character, brooding monster hunter Geralt of Rivia, for Netflix’s fantasy series of the same name.
Now he’s uploaded a five-minute video of himself putting together a high-end gaming PC over the course of several hours.
The video logged three million views through his own Instagram account and another 4 million through MTV United Kingdom’s Twitter account, not to mention reposts and uploads elsewhere.
Accompanied by Barry White’s R&B classic “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”, the thick-armed Cavill documented the process that is meticulously and precisely assembling a carefully designed computer over many hours, taking care to leave room for some light innuendo.
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As “Captain Marvel” actress Brie Larson recently launched her own YouTube channel, chatting through fan questions while playing one of her current favorite games, “Animal Crossing: New Horizons”, perhaps Cavill might see fit to open his own video gaming channel at some point too.
Production on “The Witcher” Season 2 is expected to begin mid-August in the U.K.
Cavill, known for his role as Superman in Warner Bros’ DC Extended Universe franchise, co-stars as the great detective Sherlock in September 2020’s “Enola Holmes” alongside Sam Clafin and Millie Bobby Brown of “Stranger Things” as the title character. CL
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