Tyler Hoechlin and Todd Helbing weigh in on the latest Luthor twist.
Warning: This article contains spoilers from Tuesday’s episode ofSuperman & Lois, “Heritage.”
The series premiere ofSuperman & Loisintroduced a compelling mystery: Where did Wole Parks' the Stranger, a.k.a.
Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane and Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent on ‘Superman & Lois’.Dean Buscher/The CW
Captain Luthor, come from?
And this week’s episode provided a shocking answer.
And by his planet, we mean an alternate Earth conquered by an evil version of Superman.
So it gives him a motivation, I think, that people can understand and latch onto.
But it also allows us to show this juxtaposition of Supermen.
And it’s like, ‘Yes, you’re free to: With his mind, right?’
That’s one place where he’s vulnerable.
So how could this guy go bad on his planet, and is that possible on our possible?
How does Captain Luthor fold into that?"
“There may be some clues in there,” Hellbing teases.
“It just started out as an Easter egg, I’ll say that.”
“It [felt] tighter.
And it was fun to have a little bit of a blast from the past.”
Hoechlin is hopes he’ll get an opportunity to spend more time portraying this darker version of the character.
“It’s a fun opportunity to play,” he says.
“It was one thing to guest-appear and come back periodically.
That in and of itself, you get to jump in and play a character for a minute.
It keeps it fresh, it keeps it new.
So, I was excited to see that’s an opportunity there.
We’ll see how that comes about.
But it seems like there will be some fun stuff there, if I had to guess.”
“All those decisions that are made are above my pay grade,” he says.
“If it injects an interest for Superman, that’s cool with me.
I watched that and [thought], ‘Wow, that looks badass.’
I’m totally cool with it.
It doesn’t really affect what we’re doing in anyway.
Superman & Loisairs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the CW.
