2 l February
21 - 27, 2021
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
‘Superman & Lois’ takes off
as CW series premieres
The Man of Steel and Lois Lane have been married on
television before, but viewers now can see what they’re like
as parents, too.
The CW expands its DC Universe again by launching
“Superman & Lois” Tuesday, Feb. 23, with a 90-minute
premiere followed by a behind-the-scenes special. Tyler
Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch reprise the iconic roles
they’ve played on “Supergirl” and in the crossover sagas
“Elseworlds” and “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” taking
the characters back to Smallville as they raise their sons
Jonathan and Jordan (Jordan Elsass, Alexander Garfin).
Still there is Lana Lang (Emmanuelle Chriqui), now
married to the local fire chief (Erik Valdez) and with her
own child, Sarah (Inde Navarrette).
“I really don’t have a history with the character,”
friendly “7th Heaven” alum Hoechlin admits about
Superman before starting to portray him. “I played
baseball and was acting at a young age, so all of my free
time was taken up, and comic books weren’t really my
thing ... but in what I think in a fortunate way, that lack
of history is beneficial, in that I can approach (Superman)
in a way that’s very honest and intuitive.”
Tulloch says she feels “it doesn’t get much better” than
to land as prominent a part as Lois, and she feels the new
Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth
Tulloch star in “Superman &
Lois,” premiering Tuesday
on The CW.
show’s appeal is in presenting Lois and Superman’s earthy
alter ego Clark Kent as “modern, working parents who are
kind of the best of the best in their careers, but as parents,
they’re flailing a lot. Especially in 2021, when we’ve had a
difficult past year, a lot of people are struggling. Lois and
Clark make mistakes. And their kids react accordingly.”
Hoechlin believes having played Superman a number of
times before starting his own show in the role was helpful,
“though the tone is very different from what we did on
the other shows. We’ve never seen this before, and that’s a
very freeing experience on the set.”
The wife of David Giuntoli of ABC’s “A Million Little
Things” (and his co-star on the earlier “Grimm”), Tulloch
– who used to go by the first name “Bitsie” professionally
– was well into a pregnancy when she first played Lois in
the “Elseworlds” miniseries.
“I am very career-driven and ambitious,” Tulloch states
in likening herself to Lois, “so I never saw myself not
being a working actress/mother. David has much shorter
working days than I do, so it‘s tough on the days when
I go to work at 5:30 in the morning and come home at
9 or 10 at night and don’t see my daughter once during
the day. I make sure I spend a lot of time with her on the
weekends.”
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