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Henry Cavill is a patriotic guy and reckons that if he hadn't gone into acting, he'd be in the army or studying at university. He chose Egyptology as his study course. He's also fluent in French and knows German and Italian. Before his success in “The Tudors”, Henry auditioned for the role of Cedric Diggory in the fourth Harry Potter film, reaching the final two, but obviously he lost out to a pre-Twilight Robert Pattinson. He auditioned for another teen franchise “Twilight”.  He was actually author Stephenie Meyer's first choice to play the pale 17-year-old heartthrob, but producers deemed the then-25-year-old Cavill too old.