"The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family"
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The details are doing the heavy lifting: “young,” “my daughter was little,” “London for a year.” This isn’t fan-service about capes and flying rigs; it’s a portrait of an actor’s off-camera reality, where time becomes the real currency. Kidder folds motherhood into the mythology, reminding you that the making of an iconic, masculine-coded superhero film was also shaped by childcare, routine, and the small, grounding facts of a parent’s life. The “close family” line lands because it’s both sincere and loaded: film sets often simulate intimacy to survive intensity, and that closeness can be protective, temporary, even illusory. Calling it family is a way to dignify the strange social experiment of production - a year-long, high-pressure community assembled for a shared illusion.
Context sharpens it. Superman (1978) wasn’t yet “content”; it was a gamble that helped define modern franchise culture. Kidder’s memory gently resists the corporate afterlife of the brand by locating the meaning somewhere more human: not the legend on screen, but the people who had to live inside it for a year.
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Kidder, Margot. (2026, January 17). The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-first-superman-film-took-up-a-huge-chunk-of-77868/
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Kidder, Margot. "The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-first-superman-film-took-up-a-huge-chunk-of-77868/.
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"The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-first-superman-film-took-up-a-huge-chunk-of-77868/. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
