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Crisis on Infinite Earths: Marc Guggenheim on Tom Welling’s Reaction

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Tom Welling is playing the role of Smallvile’s Clark Kent for the first time in over eight years for the DC TV crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths which begins this Sunday, December 8 on The CW, and his appearance also reunites him with the actress who played Lois Lane, Erica Durance, for most of the series run.

So what was Tom’s reaction when he was pitched the story of what Clark Kent would be up to in the present day?

“He was terrific,” Marc Guggenheim recalled at a Q&A held after a screening of the first two episodes this afternoon.

“We got on the phone with him and basically pitched him everything, and actually, the scene that Don and Holly [Don Whitehead and Holly Henderson, who wrote for Smallville in the later seasons] wrote was already done, so we just e-mailed it to him, an he was like ‘I love this.’ He basically said to me, ‘you guys have written the one scene that I can’t say no to,’ which was really, really nice.”

You can see what happens when Tom returns as Clark Kent in Part 2 of the crossover, which airs December 9 as an episode of Batwoman.

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Craig Byrne has been writing about Superman TV since 1995, when the "Lois & Clark Krypton Club" launched. He founded KryptonSite.com in February 2001, becoming the first fan site for The WB/CW television series Smallville. He also wrote the Official Companion books for Smallville seasons 4-7 as well as the Smallville Visual Guide.

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