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THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 18 - 24, 2021
‘Superman & Lois’ takes
off as CW series premieres
BY JAY BOBBIN
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
Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth
Tulloch star in “Superman &
Lois,” premiering Tuesday
on The CW.
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the new 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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