Actor Marc McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen opposite Christopher Reeve’s Superman, making special appearance at Cremorne Orpheum

CAST members from Superman II, including Marc McClure who played Jimmy Olsen, are reuniting in Sydney for a special screening and to reminisce about its late star, Christopher Reeve.

Marc McClure on the set of Superman with the late Christopher Reeve.

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SUPERMAN’S faithful sidekick Jimmy Olsen will be flying into town to get the scoop on the Cremorne Orpheum.

Olsen, aka actor Marc McClure, was a boyish 27 when he was cast in the first Superman movie to star the late Christopher Reeve.

He and Reeve went on to star in three more Superman epics.

Having never had an acting lesson in his life, McClure reveals he had his own “superpower” to help his career.

“If I have any super strength, it’s being a good judge of character, from when I was seven and sent to military school,” he said. “It’s really helped my acting.”

Christopher Reeve in the first Superman movie, released in 1978.

McClure will be visiting Australia for the first time to appear on stage at the Cremorne Orpheum next month for a screening of the 1980 movie Superman II.

He will be joined by fellow cast members Sarah Douglas (Ursula) and Jack O’Halloran (Non).

While McClure still has a boyish charm, he’s about to turn 60.

McClure also appeared opposite Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future.

After all these years, does he tire of talking about Superman?

“No, I am very grateful for the project — Jimmy has been good to me,’’ he said.

Speaking to the Mosman Daily from his home in Palm Springs, McClure was sitting by his pool with his poodle Fi Fi and thinking about writing a song.

Songwriting was part of his retirement plan but superheroes continue to be persuasive.

Recently he ditched retirement to play an insurance chief in a new television series Powerless.

It’s about — guess what — a town of superheroes.

McClure also played Dave McFly in the three Back to the Future films and he’s appeared in numerous other screen roles including as a kryptonian scientist in Smallville.

McClure with Ed Harris in Apollo 13.

McClure remembers Reeve, who became a quadriplegic after falling from a horse in 1995 and died from complications in 2004, with great affection.

McClure recalls being suspended 12m in the air on the set with Superman.

“I was rambling on about something and Chris turns to me and asked if could I stay in character on the set, that it’d help him out,” he said. “He was a workaholic but at parties, he’d goof around.”

For bookings for the Q & A screening at 6.30pm on October 9 visitorpheum.com.au

Reeve with Margot Kidder, as Lois Lane.