I got to attend the 2024 Superman Celebration this year. One of the guests I have always hoped would attend the Superman Celebration has been Kristin Kreuk. So, when I heard that she was going to be a part of the 2024 Celebration, I was thrilled! I got the chance to meet her, get an auto, and a picture with her. She was absolutely great to meet and a fun guest all weekend. She stayed very busy meeting fans. She also took part in a fan Q&A panel on the Friday of the Celebration. She talked Smallville, Road Trip, Chuck, and so many other topics. I went and recorded it which you can see my video of it and watch it here. It’s a very fun panel and highly recommended.
Some answers from the Q&A Panel.
Kristin was asked about if she was asked to return for season 10 and she replied “Yes. There’s no dirt. I just wanted her to be off in Imaginary Land. I wanted her to keep living the life that she had gone off to live and I didn’t want to bring her back into the world. I really struggled with all the love triangle stuff and I couldn’t see how there wasn’t a a story line that became about that. I just didn’t see how it would ever be a story just because of the nature of the show. It’s about Clark. It’s not about anybody else really, I mean, it’s also about Lex, it’s a two-hander that way but I just couldn’t see how we come back and close this. Like add another closer here to the story where it wasn’t just about about Clark and Lois.”
Kristin was asked about getting the role of Lana Lang: “This is back in the the olden days of I think 2001 or 2000 but they were doing a massive casting call because this was a big show. It was like a 13 episode pickup which never happened back then, now with streamers and stuff like that, it’s more common and so they were doing a casting call all over the world so there was a casting director in Vancouver and I was new. I was just auditioning for a bunch of stuff. I went in and I read and they liked me so they brought me into test. I went to LA which was my first time in Los Angeles ever in my life. My agent picked me up to take me to LA and I met David Nutter and all the Warner Brothers people and yeah, then I got the job. My uncle had a comic shop when I was young. I wasn’t really into comics. I read a lot of like the Bronte sisters so when I was really little, it was like Anne of Green Gables and it wasn’t a world that I was really aware of at the time. I obviously knew the stories but I didn’t pick up a comic book and read it but I knew what the show was about and I knew the characters on the whole. I didn’t know who Lana Lang was because she was not the most famous of the characters but I knew the basics but that’s about it.” How did she prepare to play the role of Lana Lang? “I was a young person and I was very inexperienced. I took the scripts that I was given and I think they gave us like a hardback kind of history of Superman kind of dealio and I looked at that but I kind of went with the idea that this story was its own story and I was going to focus on the character that existed on the page as I could see her. In retrospect, would I have done deeper, maybe because I think there would have been gems to be found in the history of the lore but I just, it wasn’t where I was at at that age so I really looked at what was there and I tried to build her from that point to the best of my ability. I would absolutely do it differently today”
She was asked what she thought on if Clark should have told Lana his secret and answered: “I always thought Lana would have handled it well and I think that a lot of the reason why he didn’t tell her, let’s say character-wise, was because of his own insecurity and his own uncertainty and his own fears of not being loved or accepted. I mean that makes sense. He’s an alien from another planet, he’s weird, you know, you might not want to tell the person that you want validation from something that you think might alienate you from them but I also think a part of why he never told her was just practical. If Lana had known storywise then what do you do with that story. I think you could but the way that we were shooting TV at the time, if she had known, it really would have altered the course of the show and I think they needed him to be an outsider for as long as possible for the show to work because that’s what it was about. It was about being a teenager, being an outsider, being weird, and not fitting in, and feeling insecure, fumbling through puberty, and that’s what the show is about and if the love of your life accepts you or the love like at that time accepts you, then what. I don’t know but anyway that’s my theory about it.”
Favorite Smallville episodes: “I’ve settled on a few that I say because I don’t actually remember all the episodes but I really loved shooting Lexmas and I remember liking the episode itself. I also really liked Requiem which was a devastating episode but it’s a good episode.”
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