Michael on the season finale, "Exodus": "Everything's coming out now. There's twists that I don't even get -- like, 10 twists per show. We're finding out more about Clark, [father] Lionel took the company from Lex -- s---'s coming down. The finale is huge. It's the unexpected, I mean, REALLY the unexpected. When I read the script, I was like, ''WHAT?'' I kept going to the writers, ''Well, what happened?'' I can't tell you too much, but when you talk about cliffhangers, let's just say the cliff is very high. It looks like time is going to elapse [between seasons]. There are big changes."

Michael on Lex becoming a bad guy: "I know that we probably have three years left of Smallville, three or four years tops. So I've got a lot of time. When something's written a certain way, I'm supposed to play it a certain way that makes it more ambiguous. Friends and family members call me and say, ''What are you doing? Why'd you look at him like that?'' And that's how I like it -- always keep 'em guessing. I don't know what's gonna happen, but it's little things along the way."

More on that subject: "There's that desire to be a little more evil, to give it a little extra look, and I have to fight that. I have to try to make him more passive and ambiguous, to keep him more mysterious. There's some times I just want to be evil, and I just can't do that."

And finally, Michael addresses the "HoYay" and possible gay subtext on the show: "[Laughs] I love it. In fact, if there's a line where I look at Clark and I say [with intense gaze], ''If you need me, I'm there,'' we laugh our asses off. It takes us 10 takes to get it out. Let the audience think what they want to think. If they watch the show, they have their own views on which way it's gonna go, and I love that. I don't want to give the answers away, because the answers lie in their minds."

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