Interesting...
Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson did an interview with the LA Times. Normally their interviews make me want to throw things, but during this one, they spent quite a bit of time praising Tom Welling. This makes me happy, but also curious. Why wait until the very end to tell your star how wonderful & amazing he is? At least that's how it seems to me...
Here's a link to the article.
And here are some of the better quotes:
GB: What sort of pressure did you feel as far as this finale - did you feel the need to put Clark in the Superman suit and tie up every single loose end or did you approach more from the idea of “What’s the best story we can tell?
BP: At the heart of it, it’s always about Clark and his journey so that took the forefront of any other issues. But I think that, facing the finale, we had the season to wrap up, we had the series to consider and the more earnest, farm-bound origins of the show; and then we had to think about where do we fit into the greater mythology. At the heart of it, luckily, was Clark and Tom was a really good partner with us in finding that balance.
(That first quote had some B.S. mixed in, but I'm just focusing on the part about Tom)
GB: He’s owned the role of Clark Kent longer than anyone, which is interesting since, onscreen, the character goes all the way back to the early 1940s. That’s impressive in and of itself, isn’t it?
BP: It’s not the easiest character to play. He’s the most amazing person on earth.
KS: It’s really difficult to write a character, too, that is so earnest and to do it without making him boring, honestly. I think it’s very easy to say, “Oh he always tells the truth” and “Oh, he’s always polite,” but Tom and the writers did an amazing job making him a well-rounded, three-dimensional character without making him a caricature of a simpleton. A lot of that was Tom and what he brings to it, who he is as a person. He has a sense of humor and all of those things went into making him the perfect Clark Kent and that’s something that is hard to duplicate.
There's also an interview with Justin Hartley.
Here's the funniest (to me) quote:
Jevon Phillips: Here’s the question that you’ve probably answered a lot lately …
Justin Hartley: My shirt was on during this episode. That’s what you were going to ask me, right?
JP: Not exactly, but thanks for that! Female (and some male) fans might be disappointed. I was going to ask you to describe your experience when you first stepped on the “Smallville” set.
(Justin was talking about Dominion)
Here's a link to the article.
And here are some of the better quotes:
GB: What sort of pressure did you feel as far as this finale - did you feel the need to put Clark in the Superman suit and tie up every single loose end or did you approach more from the idea of “What’s the best story we can tell?
BP: At the heart of it, it’s always about Clark and his journey so that took the forefront of any other issues. But I think that, facing the finale, we had the season to wrap up, we had the series to consider and the more earnest, farm-bound origins of the show; and then we had to think about where do we fit into the greater mythology. At the heart of it, luckily, was Clark and Tom was a really good partner with us in finding that balance.
(That first quote had some B.S. mixed in, but I'm just focusing on the part about Tom)
GB: He’s owned the role of Clark Kent longer than anyone, which is interesting since, onscreen, the character goes all the way back to the early 1940s. That’s impressive in and of itself, isn’t it?
BP: It’s not the easiest character to play. He’s the most amazing person on earth.
KS: It’s really difficult to write a character, too, that is so earnest and to do it without making him boring, honestly. I think it’s very easy to say, “Oh he always tells the truth” and “Oh, he’s always polite,” but Tom and the writers did an amazing job making him a well-rounded, three-dimensional character without making him a caricature of a simpleton. A lot of that was Tom and what he brings to it, who he is as a person. He has a sense of humor and all of those things went into making him the perfect Clark Kent and that’s something that is hard to duplicate.
There's also an interview with Justin Hartley.
Here's the funniest (to me) quote:
Jevon Phillips: Here’s the question that you’ve probably answered a lot lately …
Justin Hartley: My shirt was on during this episode. That’s what you were going to ask me, right?
JP: Not exactly, but thanks for that! Female (and some male) fans might be disappointed. I was going to ask you to describe your experience when you first stepped on the “Smallville” set.
(Justin was talking about Dominion)