Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane: It’s Reluctant Man! Whether Smallville was cancelled or just ended is a matter of semantics. The series was certainly a success with its ten season run, but when asked about reprising his Smallville role on CBS‘s Supergirl TV series, Tom Welling told Buzzfeed’s Jarett Wieselman, “It would be odd.”
Welling’s Smallville co-star — Laura Vandervoot, who played Supergirl in Smallville‘s latter years — has been cast on Supergirl, which stars Melissa Benoist in the title role. Vandervoot is reportedly playing Indigo, a living computer on the CBS freshman superhero show.
This week, Buzzfeed published Wieselman’s piece, “How ‘Smallville’ Changed Tom Welling Forever.” Wieselman tweeted Welling’s discussion of bringing his Smallville character to Supergirl, because the remarks did not make the the final piece.
Per the tweet, Welling said, “There’s people who would like it… there’s people who don’t like it, but I will tell you that no one has ever actually asked me to do it. So, I don’t know. It would be kind of odd. I don’t know who he is at that point. He would obviously be Superman.”
Here is the tweet:
Tom Welling on the odds he'd ever play Superman on #Supergirl (didn't make the final piece) https://t.co/SgYQRjtDcz pic.twitter.com/BMh4uQQTEP
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 27, 2016
In the published interview, Welling talks about his new project, Section 13, that he’s developing at CBS. If the Tiffany Network greenlights the spy drama, Welling will star, as well as executive produce with Carla Kettner, who is attached as writer.
In the Smallville portion of the interview that did make it to publication, talked turned to the plethora of superhero shows now on TV, which was not the case during Smalleville‘s day.
From Buzzfeed:
Smallville followed young Clark Kent as he went from anonymous farm boy to iconic Man of Steel, all while trying to maintain a sense of normalcy and find true love. When the series debuted in 2001, television was a substantially less “super” place than it is now with Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Heroes Reborn, Gotham, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil currently dominating the landscape.
“It’s a compliment,” Welling said, thinking about the extensive superhero offerings on TV now. “I’m very proud of shows like Arrow [and] The Flash. … They’re able to ground these characters so that the viewer can relate on a human level to people who used to be only in two dimensions.”
Were you a Smallville fan? Would it be “odd” for you to see Welling in the Superman role on the Supergirl TV show? If you could cast him in another guest role on the new CBS series, what would it be? Tell us.
Honestly, most of the reasons I haven’t gotten into other superman stuff is becasue of the charater changes. Didnt see the superman movies or anything. Im a huge Louise and Clark fan.. and understood the reasoning for casting Tom. Which lead me to being a faithfull fan through the seasons. I was skeptical on Supergirl and have only watched a handful of times. Reprising his role on Supergirl may pique my interest, and if anyone gets the opportunity I would like it to be him.
I would love to see Tom play Clark/Superman in the new CW DC-Verse…he really made the best Clark on TV and for 10 yrs he made the role his own…They should also bring back Michael’s Lex as the villain
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes; definitely Tom Welling should guest star as Superman at least once on Supergirl and on Flash (and Arrow and Legends, for that matter…)!!!!!!
Yes would love to see him! He is superman to me. Please come do it. Anyone else wouldn’t feel right!
I’ve been dying to see him as Superman. 🙁
Id cast him for the role of Clark Kent beacause it would be awesome like the flarrow crossover and we want Tom Weilling back as Superman
Id recast him on smallville with all the old actiors its gonna happen watch it be called smallville the glory days
Id cast him coz he is Clark Kent!! noone since christopher Reeve has done it better than Tom Welling
I’ve seen alot of Clark Kents come and go, starting with the old Superman tv series, so no stranger to the character. I came to Smallville when it was on TNT network as repeats. Since it was running two episodes during the middle of the night, I actually got to see most of the entire series before they suddenly stopped. During that time I became a huge fan. Thought that Welling did an excellent job bringing his character to life. I read about his new series coming this fall and looking forward to it, but would still love to see… Read more »
The hopes that tom welling would do it is great!! To me as far as tv goes HE IS CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN to many. the world is already used to his chemistry as CLARK so the blend would work regardless. I feel that he and supergirl could play the kryptonian cousins great together. & the people can also get their MINOR feel of what Tom welling would be as actual SUPERMAN seeing as we never kind of did. But at the same time keeping it about supergirl 100% of the time. Tom welling as CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN cameos would be a BOSS… Read more »
It would be a perfect role for Tom Welling to play Superman on the series “SuperGirl”. Hopefully this will happen. It just won’t work with someone else doing the role.