2009 TV News Archives

Cassidy Freeman

April 8, 2009: Cassidy Freeman Discusses Tess Mercer

StarPulse.com caught up with Cassidy Freeman to talk to her about her role as Tess Mercer on "Smallville". Here's a portion of the interview...

    Cassidy: The show is beautiful, it's a really cool idea. I recently re-watched the 1978 Superman and I realize in that whole movie what a small section Smallville [is]. Jonathan Kent dies in the first 15 minutes of that movie. So, if you think about high school Clark, that's such a small piece. It's such a cool show; after eight years the show is still fan run and it's fan genre that you have to pay respect to what the fans feel and what they want.

    The fact that they brought Tess Mercer in to be in support of Lex and run by that, I think, was very, very smart. And then, you have this great moment about halfway through the season where he totally betrays her. And all of a sudden this character -- that thank god the fans were enjoying -- has her own journey to start going on. I feel like the first half of the season was dedicated to me filling in for Lex while he was gone, then, as the story went past his disappearance, all of a sudden you have this new character... who's pretty cool.

    Q: You mention the 1978 Superman movie. People will say: There's no way Lex can be dead -- and I would assume he's probably not -- because he's such a big part of Superman's life. But the creators of Smallville have made it pretty clear that Smallville is it's own entity and does not correlate with other Superman stories, right?

    Cassidy: It's kind of like the Bible, right? We can all interpret it the way we want to interpret it. What is the (Superman) Bible? Is the Bible the movie? Is it the comic? Is the Bible the mythos that is in the scriptures of Superman? So I think it's up for interpretation like anything is. I like that they did that and they take liberties. They create someone like Chloe; they create someone like Tess Mercer. But who knows if Lex is really dead ... I mean, no one really dies on Smallville. It's like no one is really human. People joke that it leaves to many doors open, but, at the same time: Why not? Kill him.

Read the entire interview at StarPulse.com.



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