2011 TV News Archives

May 12, 2011: Al Gough Looks Back on "Smallville"

Smallville BackStage.com has published an article in which "Smallville" co-creator Al Gough looks back at the series and how it all began. Here's a portion of the article...

    Gough says casting an iconic character like Superman was a challenge because of popular preconceived ideas about his appearance, and they had to work within the likeness requirements of DC Comics. Gough says they liked Tom Welling's headshot, but the actor "didn't want to come in and 'put on a suit and be Superman.' So David Nutter [the pilot's director] called him, and he agreed to come in and read the script because we weren't sending the script out at that point. He read the script, loved the script, and then tested."

    Another major challenge was casting Lex Luthor, Superman's archenemy. Gough says, "I think people have a certain image in their head of Gene Hackman from the movies. We were saying he's a young guy with a very rich father who's trying to prove himself in the world, who craves love. Michael Rosenbaum had actually come in months before and read, but had tanked the audition because he was sick. So when we were going back through, we were literally a week away from casting, we brought Michael back in and he redid his audition and really blew everybody away."

Read the complete article at BackStage.com.



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