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Tom Welling on Playing Superman: “How Cool Would It Be!”

Tom Welling expresses a changed response to “would you play Superman” on Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast.

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For most of the 20 years of discussion about Smallville, one thing that frequently came up is Tom Welling‘s strong stance toward the “no tights” part of “no tights, no flights.” This week, Michael Rosenbaum had Welling on his Inside of You podcast and Tom, who played Clark Kent for 218 episodes of Smallville, had a surprising answer when asked if, down the road, he was asked to play Superman.

“Especially during Smallville, it wasn’t about being Superman or not,” Tom replied, echoing his previous stance over the years. “It was only being Clark Kent on Smallville. They did some Superman movies; they were never gonna shut down Smallville for me to even do one, right? It’s just a different thing. DC movies and DC television are very different things,” he said, particularly referring to that period of time.

“Then when Smallville ended, I was very anti-playing Superman, but now as I get older, I’m like, ‘oh, maybe? I mean, yes, I think it would be fun’,” Tom now admitted. “And I think I would like to think that I could add an element that maybe hasn’t been there for a while, as far as like, maybe Superman’s not so detached. Maybe he’s not such an alien.”

Tom talked about a particular scene from the Superman movies that got his attention, that readers might see as something that could happen with the version we saw in Crisis on Infinite Earths, even though Tom didn’t cite that himself.

“My favorite scene is when Superman goes into the cafe and doesn’t have his powers, he gets beat up, and then he comes back with his powers, and how does he and how he deals with that? I think that element may need to come back in a little bit. It would be fun,” he said. “I think that having my boys [his young sons Thompson and Rocklin] now, I kind of have to get over myself a little bit. Like, how cool would it be!”

Finally, Tom spoke about how the TV shows and now movies are now embracing the multiverse

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. “You could have five different guys playing Superman in the same movie,” he pointed out.

You can listen to the entire episode of Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum below. There’s more Smallville discussion within, including some talk of which cast mates they’d love to see again someday.

 

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Smallville’s Rosenbaum & Welling Plan Live TalkVille Event

Smallville actors Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum are planning a live TalkVille event in Los Angeles.

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April 15, 2024

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By now you have surely heard TalkVille, the podcast from Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum where they reminisce about their time on the classic WB/CW series Smallville. Some may have even been to “Smallville Nights,” the events that Tom and Michael host at cons. Well, now fans can prepare for another kind of live experience, as the former Clark and Lex actors have a live event planned for May 22 and 23, 2024 in Los Angeles.

Held at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood, this TalkVille event will also have a bonus kick off with “Smallville Nights” for special ticket holders where Tom and Michael will act out memorable scenes from Smallville with some lucky audience members. If you’ve been to “Smallville Nights” at a convention, you already know it’s a good time.

May 22 appears to be sold out, but you can purchase tickets for the May 21 event here. Tell them KryptonSite sent you!

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Michael Rosenbaum Would Consider A Smallville Movie

Michael Rosenbaum has revealed in a new interview that he would consider reprising the role of Lex Luthor for a Smallville movie.

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Screen Rant today posted an extensive interview with Michael Rosenbaum where he talks about his role as Lex Luthor on Smallville as well as his podcasting empire which includes Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum and TalkVille. There are many fantastic topics covered – you can read the entire interview here – but one thing that might get Smallville fans really pumped is that Michael expressed an interest in reprising the role for a Smallville movie.

“I asked Tom [Welling] the other day, ‘If [Smallville creators] Al [Gough] and Miles [Millar] came to us and said, ‘We got this great idea for a Smallville movie. We want you guys to get in shape for the next two months, and then we’re going to go shoot this movie like a real finale…’ We were both like, ‘Yeah!’ If it was right, I think that would be dope. So many other shows are doing that. I would certainly consider it,” Michael said.

“It would have to something that, again, was grounded, but if Al and Miles did it, and wanted to do a one and half hour movie, I think Tom and I — we’d all consider it,” he continued. “I think we’d have fun going back, but we’d have to really work to get back into those characters in that mindset because we’re a lot older. But if you shaved my head and you put makeup on me, it still works!”

The Screen Rant interview also touched upon the notion of a Smallville animated project — something that Michael and Tom both have been pushing for in recent years. Is there anything new to share?

“All I could share is that it’s a great idea. We have Al and Miles, the creators of Smallville backing us up. When it’s the right time, we’d like to go and do this; pitch to Warner Bros. It has to be the right time, and right now is not the right time. We had the strike, we had a change of executives at DC — one being one of my best friends in the world, James Gunn. When the time’s right, I think it’s something that’s a no brainer, unless they have other ideas. We’d like to do it — the whole cast would like to do it. They would voice their own character from the show, and we have a concept of what the show is,” he confirmed.

You can read the full Screen Rant interview here.

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Marc Guggenheim Answers Two Smallville-Related Crisis Questions

Arrowverse architect Marc Guggenheim has answered questions about Michael Rosenbaum and Erica Durance’s Smallville roles in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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Arrowverse architect Marc Guggenheim has been releasing a fantastic Substack newsletter called LegalDispatch in recent months, and with this week’s edition, he answered some Smallville-related questions regarding the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover — specifically, what Michael Rosenbaum‘s Lex would have done if he had shown up, and also, if there were more plans for Erica Durance to appear as Lois beyond her brief scene with Tom Welling.

Being transparent, Marc answered some of those questions! First, regarding what role Michael Rosenbaum’s Lex would play:

Well, here’s the thing. By the time we’d engaged with Michael about appearing in Crisis — thanks in huge part to Stephen Amell’s efforts — we’d already shot the Smallville reunion scene in Hour 2. Nevertheless, I was eager to get Michael’s Lex into the story if I could, so my brain started working on options that could be fit into the episodes that we were still shooting.

I forget the story impetus for them, but I noodled with a version where Michael’s Lex would interact with Jon Cryer’s Lex, which I think would’ve been quite entertaining had it come to pass.

Also, was there any temptation to have Erica Durance’s Lois Lane appear in more than one episode?

There was absolutely a temptation for sure. As with most things, however, we were subject to the limit of a combination of screentime, story requirements, money, shooting schedule, and the actors’ personal schedules.

You can read this week’s LegalDispatch here.

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