In an interview this week, the conservative actor, who starred as the cape-wearing hero on “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” from 1993 to 1997, complained that he thinks Gunn has made the character too “woke” due to today’s political climate.

Lois & Clark star Dean Cain warned that director James Gunn’s new Superman may be so “woke” that it “hurts the numbers on the movie.” Speaking to TMZ, Cain, 58, said it was a “mistake” for Gunn “to say ‘it’s an immigrant thing,

The former Superman takes issue with the director's comments about the new movie being an immigration allegory: "We know Superman is an immigrant — he's a freaking alien."