Tom Welling Was Never Going To Suit Up as Superman in Crisis

YouTuber Angelika Diana has uploaded video from the Tom Welling panel at the 2020 FanExpo in Vancouver, and in it, he confirmed that he was never going to wear a Superman costume in this year’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover… no matter what your source in Australia happened to tell you.

Tom did, however, happen to be happy with the way things went down, although he was initially reluctant to go back, as it might affect the integrity of what they did in the ten-season Smallville series on The WB and The CW. “We spent a lot of time on Smallville making sure it was Smallville, and it wasn’t Superman. I know we got to The Blur and Metropolis. But the idea at the end of Smallville was that he’s out there but we can’t go with him. Hopefully the fans’ imagination goes there and believes he’s out there,” he explained.

And now, the important question: Was Tom approached to wear the suit (yes… that one) in Crisis? No. And for Welling, that seems to have been a good thing.

“If they had started the conversation with ‘So, Clark is in the suit’, I’d have been like [click],” Tom said, putting the microphone down as if it’s a phone.

So what is his aversion to the suit, especially in the context of Crisis on Infinite Earths?

“Well, number one, you don’t have to wear it. There’s this thing called CGI,” Tom joked. “I think for me, it was just trying to protect Clark and the original idea of him being in high school before the Superman thing.  But for me, I also thought that the Clark on Smallville, once he put the suit on, it was not Smallville anymore, and everything became too easy.”

“I got on the phone, and they had this idea for me to come back in this crossover, in this multiverse. And I was like ‘What? What’s a multiverse?'” Tom recalled himself saying, before trying to come up with a reason not to do this. But the idea was so good, he found it to be a “really cool way” for Clark to come back.

“liked the idea of him appearing again, and I liked the idea of him being with Lois. And I don’t know if anybody picked up on this, but somehow I got in the back of my head that I wanted to act more like Jonathan Kent, in that scene that I did Clark, because that’s his father, and that’s probably who he would have been influenced by,” Tom revealed, pointing to little things like the gloves and the way he would turn around.

You can see video of Tom’s panel below.