2010 TV News Archives

September 4, 2010: Interview with Tracy Roberts/Tracy Lewis, Darla on "Superboy"

Darla Meets Lex Last week Barry Freiman of the Superman Homepage, in conjunction with the Superboy Homepage and Superboy TV Theater, published an exclusive interview with Stacy Haiduk, the actress who played Lana Lang on "Superboy: The TV Series" (aka "The Adventures of Superboy"). This interview was presented as part of a continuing series of new interviews from the "Superboy" series that began with Sam Rizzo of the Superboy Homepage's interview over on Superboy TV Theater with actor Barry Meyers who played Bizarro Superboy on several episodes of the show.

This week, Rennie Cowan and Ginger De Los Rios of Superboy TV Theater interviewed actress Tracy Roberts (today Tracy Lewis) who played Lex Luthor's henchwoman Darla beginning in the second episode of the show's second season. Lewis recently surfaced on Facebook after she'd heard urban legend rumors of her death. Like Mark Twain before her, had Mark Twain been a sexy 1980s gun moll to the greatest criminal mind of our time, the rumors of her demise were a bit premature.

In the new interview, Lewis relates a story about being her daughter's own show-and-tell project, and having her daughter's third grade classmates believe her daughter's Mom had the powers Darla displayed in the aptly titled "Darla Goes Ballistic":

    Ashley used to love to watch them hooking Gerard up to the wires to make him fly. And I'd tell her all the time, 'Now Ashley, you cannot tell people how Superboy flies. That is a big, big, no no. So if your friends ask you in school...you don't know! [Laughs] Tell them that he just flies. So she says okay and then one day they had the day when the parents go in and talk about their jobs at school. I think Ashley was in the third grade, maybe. I actually wore the white "Darla Goes Ballistic" suit to the classroom. [Laughs] They gave me a tape to show the actual episode. And I forgot these were third graders, I didn't think they would think this was for real. And they watch the show and I'm shooting lasers out of my eyes and I'm blowing things up. And when the show was over they all just slowly turned around and looked at me like in fear.

Cowan with De Los Rios present their in-depth Q&A with Lewis in full here. Check it out!



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