“It’s funny.
You know when you take a long flight and there’s a layover, and your flight gets canceled?
That’s like watching the show now,” Welling said.
The cast of ‘Smallville’ season 1. Clockwise from left: John Glover, Annette O’Toole, Tom Welling, John Schneider, Sam Jones III, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk.Everett Collection
“I forget about all the bad stuff.
I just remember the good stuff!
It’s fun to revisit it, and enough time has gone by that I can enjoy it more.
Christopher Reeve as Dr. Virgil Swann on ‘Smallville.'.Dana Belcher/WB TV
I don’t think I could’ve done the podcast even two years ago.
And Michael’s an idiot, so it’s a lot of fun.”
“He’s the only person that made me swear and leave set,” Durance recalled.
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“In fairness, it wasn’t him.”
“It was kind of him, though,” Kreuk interjected.
“He pushes, and pushes.”
John Glover playing Clark Kent in Lionel Luthor’s body on ‘Smallville.'.WB TV
“It’s part of his process to be comfortable,” Durance clarified.
“He’s in his thing and doing his stuff, and that’s great.
But I was coming in new, and very neurotic and stressed.
I wanted to do well, and if I dropped a line I would beat myself up a lot.
But then I did a scene with Michael and I was nervous because he’s a really good actor.
I was having trouble getting into the scene and having a really hard time with the dialogue.
And he was just chatting with the cameraman, joking and burping and stuff off-camera.
So I yelled, and swore, and I walked off set.
I was sitting behind a truck and I had a meltdown.
Then all of a sudden, around a corner, I heard, ‘I’m so sorry!
What did I do?’
But he hadn’t really done anything, he was just being him.”
Not all the on-set conflict was between actors, though.
He was like, ‘I don’t want to leave,'" Welling recalled.
But he wanted to stay with me!
He’s like, ‘on who?’
She’s like, ‘On you!
You’re done, you could’t be here anymore!’
He just wanted to be there.
It turned out great, and the story was fantastic."
Last year, EW publishedour ranking of the 50 bestSmallvilleepisodesin honor of the show’s 20th anniversary.
In response to an audience question, the cast members revealed their own favorite episodes.
Kreuk’s favorite is “Lexmas,” the season 5 holiday season riff onIt’s a Wonderful Life.
Welling’s pick was “Transference,” the season 4 standout where Clark and Lionel switch bodies.
He and Glover recalled how difficult that episode was to produce.
“I had such a hard time playing you,” Glover remembered.
“Because you don’t have to do anything!
That’s your strength, it’s all there.
You played me brilliantly.
It was so hard for me to just stand there like you.”
They called me in early that day," Welling said.
“I was like, ‘Hey John, how are you doing?’
You looked at me like, ‘Ugh, I need your help playing Clark.’
I was like, ‘what’s wrong?
Just don’t complicate it.’
You said, ‘I complicate everything!'”
