Superman star Nicholas Hoult has gone from bald to blonde.
The two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, 35, debuted platinum locks while promoting Superman — in which he appears completely bald as villain Lex Luthor — in New York City and London this week, alongside costars David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan (who play the Man of Steel and Lois Lane, respectively). Hoult’s fans definitely seem to be feeling some hair-related whiplash from seeing him with two such distinct looks.
“My brain doesn’t have the capacity to hold a single thought other than blonde Nicholas Hoult,” one fan wrote via X, with another quipping, “Blond Nicholas Hoult is really f***ing doing it for me, my god. He is feeling himself and I too would like to feel him.”
“Nicholas hoult genuinely looks so good blonde like wtf,” an X user insisted. Yet another social media user joked, “Blonde nicholas hoult has bewitched me.”
His Superman costar Brosnahan is seemingly partial to Hoult going hairless as Lex Luthor, having recently told Interview magazine on June 16 that he was “making bald men hot again.”
Hoult has had some memorable hair transformations on the big and small screens throughout his career. He stole the hearts of a generation of British teens with his brunette bangs while portraying high school bad boy Tony Stonem in the coming-of-age drama series Skins.
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He previously went bald — and sported unforgettable chrome war paint — as the renegade War Boys member Nux in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road and was covered head to toe in blue fur as Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast in the X-Men movies.
He revealed to Bleeding Cool in 2011 that it literally took “four hours” every day on the set of X-Men: First Class to apply Beast’s signature fur.
“Once the transformation to Beast takes place, that’s four hours of makeup and prosthetics with a full mask and wigs and fur and a big rubber muscle suit. That’s quite a transformation,” he acknowledged.
Hoult has most recently followed in the footsteps of the late Gene Hackman and Jesse Eisenberg by playing the iconic DC Comics villain Lex Luthor in director James Gunn’s Superman. He honored Luthor’s classic comic book look by going completely bald for the blockbuster.
At Superman’s U.K. premiere on Tuesday, July 1, Hoult revealed that someone very special helped him get ready to play Lex.
“I shaved [my hair],” he confirmed to the Associated Press. “It was great. I actually got my older son to get the clippers and I said, ‘Go on. Do your worst!’”
Asked whether he was “scared” of the amateur haircut, Hoult admitted: “No, it was clipper! I mean, there was only so much [he could do]. And also, [my hair] was all going anyway so it wasn’t like he could give me a bad haircut!”
Hoult and his wife, model Bryana Holly, share two children: 6-year-old son Joaquin and a second child whose name has not been publicly revealed. Hoult seemingly confirmed he’d privately wed Holly by referring to her as his “wife” at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles in November 2024.
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The couple have rarely spoken about their relationship since getting together in 2017, though Hoult was uncharacteristically direct when asked whether he’d secretly wed Holly in November 2024.
“I think it’s fairly clear,” he told People at the time.
Superman hits theaters Friday, July 11.
