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Justin Hartley

August 20, 2008: Justin Hartley and Allison Mack Talk "Smallville" Season 8

ComicBookResources.com has posted interviews with Justin Hartley and Allison Mack in which they discuss their roles in Season 8 of "Smallville".

Here's an excerpt from the Justin Hartley interview...

    When Hartley received word that the studio was looking to bring him back to "Smallville" as a series regular, needless to say he was excited. "I had just shot a pilot with Cassidy [Freeman, who plays Tess Mercer on 'Smallville']. She ruined it," Hartley joked. "They didn't pick it up and I think it was a day or two later [when] I got the call and we talked a lot [about it]. I love playing the character, it's a great show and a lot of fun for me so when they said series regular I was definitely interested. I'm excited about it."

    Another thing that brought Hartley back to the show was the writing. "I got a lot of faith in them, in the writers," Hartley said. "They always write good stuff for me. I am just lucky because I get to be the face that benefits, they're the ones that do it though."

Allison Mack While Allison Mack had this to say...

    Fans are curious if Chloe will make a return to the Daily Planet, where she used to write a column. "Well I visit the Daily Planet," Mack confirmed. "I don't know, she's really diving head first into the Isis and she's really taking on the job of being the mentor and the kind of place of solace for all the meteor-infected. So I think that that's really going to see her be focused and she's pretty angry at Lex Luthor so she's going to stay as far away from him and his cohorts as possible"

    As Mack evolves, so does the character of Chloe Sullivan, and Mack is looking forward to explore some other aspects of the character this season, like cutting the apron strings with Clark. "It's time for him to grow up a little bit and not rely on Chloe so much so that Chloe can go off and forge her own path," Mark remarked. "She's been his shadow for a really long time and [while she] has been doing things of great importance I think it's really exciting to see her start to see her kind of forge her own way and figure out what she's passionate about separate and aside from Clark. You really start to see her do [that] at the Isis Foundation and she's really narrowing down her scope of what she wants to focus on, which is really to try and help that part of the population in the world and I think that's really cool."

"Smallville" Season 8 premieres in the U.S. on Thursday, September 18th.



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