Warning: This article contains spoilers for Tuesday’sSuperman & Lois, “Loyal Subjekts.”
The Cushing family’s life just got even more complicated.
Thankfully, Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) arrived in time to defeat them all.
Erik Valdez on ‘Superman & Lois’.Dean Buscher/The CW
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you find out you’d be one of the ones getting superpowers?
What do you think of this?"
At first I was like, “That could be really awesome.”
Emmanuelle Chriqui and Erik Valdez on ‘Superman & Lois’.Bettina Strauss/The CW
It’s cool to get powers even if it’s just for a little awhile.
This kind of a cool pivotal moment for Smallville and for Kyle.
The way it all plays out is really cool.
Did you do anything specific to prepare yourself?
Like did you practice what you wanted to do with your face when uses heat vision?
[Laughs] You know what’s funny about all that is I’m a preparer.
I love to do research and find out as much information about things as possible.
I don’t know if anyone got video of it.
But I’m standing there practicing this voice and shifting my head accordingly to make it work.
To a bystander I probably looked insane, but it was fun and it worked well.
I think it plays nicely.
Strictly a practice thing.
Then Elliott came to me on set and said, “Well, I created these little glasses.”
It was before shooting.
So we definitely didn’t use them while cameras were rolling, but it helped for sure.
Initially there’s a little bit of a balance, right?
So there was a fine line in the balance of that.
So it is a completely different character.
What was the most useful thing you learned in your research?
There were a lot of different anecdotal bits here and there.
Some of it was even misleading, especially [what to do] voice-wise.
There’s a bunch of different philosophies.
So I hit up Todd, “Do I need to learn like Turkish accent?”
And he was like, “No, no, no.
Don’t even go that route.”
How does this twist affect the Cushing family?
I was like, “You’re kind of right.
you’ve got the option to’t win.”
Every time something starts to get better, something else happens.
This guy doesn’t have a lot of luck.
He’s going after things with the best of intentions.
He just makes really poor decisions.
Superman & Loisairs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the CW.
