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Xpose #60

October 8, 2001: More "Smallville" Media Publicity

Issue #60 of the UK magazine Xpose features Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor), Tom Welling (Clark Kent), and Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang) on the cover, with an interior interview with Kristin Kreuk where she talks about the show, her character, and her co-stars, among other things. Here's a small portion of the interview titled "Small Town Girl":

When Clark Kent, later Superman, was growing up in Smallville, he had plenty of good friends around him, Lana Lang among them. Kristin Kreuk explains to Ian Spelling how she's the new Maid of Might.

It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a young woman who's about to be a star. Kristin Kreuk plays Lana Lang on the new series Smallville, which has garnered some of the most glowing reviews of any freshman show launched in the 2001-2002 TV season, and that's ahead of its October 16 premiere date. And the consensus is that the 20-year-old will emerge as one of the brightest talents on the entertainment landscape.

"I try not to think about that," Kreuk says. "I really love my anonymity. It's something I prize and cherish, and I have my entire life. It will be interesting to have people know me without knowing me, but living in Vancouver, shooting in Vancouver, I feel like I'm not going to have to go through half as much as I would if I were living in LA. I get to stay at home. I've got my friends and my family to ground me, not that I need them to ground me, because I'm a very grounded person. But they're there and they have nothing to do with acting, nothing to do with that world. So I have no opportunity to get caught up in it. I'd hate myself if I ever got caught up in it."

Read the complete interview at the Xpose website.

While in other "Smallville" news, the New York Post published an article yesterday (October 7, 2001) titled, "'Smallville' Will Be Big". Here's a small excerpt from the article written by Michael Giltz:

WHEN actor Tom Welling found out he'd won the part of Superman as a teenager in the new WB series "Smallville" - a role that could transform him from a mild mannered 24 year old actor into a major star - he was in exactly the right spot: a phone booth.

OK, there aren't actually any real phone booths left in LA. But he was on the side of the road with a phone in his hand.

"I went to the final screen test between me and another fellow," he remembers. "I was on my way back from the Warner Bros. studio and I stopped in a gas station to call my manager and tell him how it went. I called and get him on the phone and he said, 'Can you hold on a second?' I'm like, well, alright. I'm thinking, 'Thanks for the priority.' Next thing I know, there are literally seven people on the other line and almost in unison they say, 'Tom, you got it!'"

Cult Times Special #19 And then there's the latest issue of Cult Times Special which features Tom Welling on the cover (with Scott Bakula from Enterprise). Internally there's an article with quotes from the Television Critics Association press tour a few months ago. Basically the "Smallville" information is as follows:

Smallville: The creators and stars of the new show about Superman's youth say he won't have powers and abilities beyond mortal men. Well, not for now anyway. What's it like to have x-ray vision? Find out inside!

Thanks to KryptonSite for the leads.


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