Smallville
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.
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
. “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.
Smallville
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Creation Announces Salute to Smallville 2025!
Creation Entertainment has announced their second Smallville convention, happening September 2025 in the Chicago area.
In October, Creation Entertainment hosted their first-ever “Salute to Smallville” convention – featuring such guests as Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance, Laura Vandervoort, Aaron Ashmore, and John Glover. The first event was a fantastic experience for all, with fans and talent alike having a great time surrounding themselves with others who love Smallville. Like Creation’s Supernatural “Creation Tour,” friends were made, friends reunited… and we can’t wait to do it again. As a bonus, KryptonSite’s very own Craig Byrne (the writer of this article!) got to host/emcee the event with our good friend and Starkville’s House of El podcaster (the OG of SV Podcasters!) Derek Russell.
Well, you’re in luck: Today, Creation formally announced their next Smallville event! Held September 13-14, 2025 in the Chicago area, the second “Salute to Smallville” has already announced that Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, and Kristin Kreuk are scheduled to attend, with more to come — and the announcement comes with a new website which should have a somewhat familiar design. (Full disclosure: It was purposely designed to look like KryptonSite, and it was largely put together by the author of this very article.) As a bonus, the new website includes some exclusive short videos from last month’s event!
Even better: Gold Weekend Experience passes are already available to order for the absolute best seats, the exclusive Gold Panel, and additional perks. If you order yours now you can be the among the first to sign up, and ideally, to show Creation that we’d like to see more of these things! Several autographs and photo opportunities are also up to pre-order, so you can get in before they all sell out. Frankly, ordering now also shows Creation that putting together this new website was a good investment, as well, which would make this author extremely grateful.
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