Jordan Kent (Alex Garfin) might not be a superhero just yet, but he does have superpowers.
In other words, he’s still got a few things to figure out.
ALEX GARFIN:I think the real change, in one word, has been maturity.
Alex Garfin on ‘Superman & Lois’.Bettina Strauss/The CW
That tends to happen when you’re around those ages.
I remember every year, from around 13 up to around 17, I felt like a different person.
Freshman year of high school I was so different than sophomore year, so different than junior year.
And then the career stuff took over.
I had to mature, in the same way that Jordan has to in this coming episode.
It’s not easy to have Superman as a dad.
There was a bit of a fit in the beginning, and I’m glad they had that.
Your dad is Superman!
Why would you be upset about that?"
In the last episode, we saw Jordan show up and use his powers to defend his brother.
Do you think it’s fair to say that he is getting a bit better at this superpowers thing?
I think it is extremely fair to say that Jordan is getting better.
I’ve had a personal journey with this as well.
I was not athletic.
I was a theater kid.
I was in the improv club, not the baseball club, so I came in pretty scrawny.
It was just a very long time coming.
I went from knowing nothing to working extremely hard at fighting.
I have been training."
And you don’t often get those in this Hollywood world.
It’s something I’ll cherish the rest of my life.
We have watched Jordan struggling with these powers, struggling with being different, especially from his brother.
As he comes into his own with these powers, what does that do for his mental state?
Jordan begins to find himself under pressure.
It affects his mental stress, because all of a sudden he [has] this responsibility.
It’s that deadline syndrome, isn’t it?
That affects him mentally.
That affects his mental strength, and it affects his acuity even.
And you also see it start to negatively affect him.
You see it maybe start to bubble over in different ways throughout the episode.
you’re free to never really make everyone happy, can you?
We touch on that in this show all the time.
You’re trying to balance these things.
The world would see the stuff that Superman’s doing as more important than the stuff Clark is doing.
But to Superman and Clark, they’re of equal weight.
Back in Metropolis, Lois [Elizabeth “Bitsie” Tulloch] was Jordan’s best friend.
His only friend, really.
They had that extremely, extremely close mother-son relationship, whereas Jonathan got around very well.
He had a lot of friends.
He felt very healthy.
Also, personally, I love working with Bitsie.
She’s awesome, so it would be really great to see that.
Do you have a favorite episode coming up?
We really see everyone start to shine.
I always just feel so honored to be among this cast.
I always feel like I have so much to learn from all my co-stars.
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This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
