EntertainmentLois Lane almost had a different – and curious – origin in SmallvilleErica Durante played the character for seven seasons of the series, but was almost replaced by a face already known to fans today at 10:00

Miles Millarone of the creators of Smallville: The Adventures of Superboyseries about the youth of Super manrevealed that he had enormous difficulty in including Lois Lane in history and, almost, did not consider transforming Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack), best friend of Clark Kent (Tom Welling), on the character.

If you followed that line, Chloewho worked as a journalist in high school, would change his name so he could work at Planeta Diário, which is the workplace of Lois in the comics. She would then go from best friend to romantic interest. Clarkas is the case in the original stories.

“We talked about it, that maybe she [Chloe] was the ‘pre-Lois’ and then later on, she would have to change her identity or something, and would become Lois Lane“revealed Millar in an interview with the podcast TalkVille [via ScreenRant]with Tom Welling It is Michael Rosenbaumthat lived Lex Luthor on the Serie.

Second Millar, the option was considered because the bosses at Warner Bros. Television did not want to introduce the character and break the already established romance of Clark with Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk). “The issue, again, was that we wanted Lois Lane, and they weren’t going to give her to us.”said.

“So when she came into Season 4, there was a huge question: ‘Can you have her for two episodes’. And then: ‘Can you have her for three’. And then: ‘Can you have her for half the season.’ In the end, Peter Roth [presidente da Warner Bros.] said, ‘Screw it, she’s on the show now and she just won’t go away'”remembered.

Smallville it had ten seasons, totaling 217 episodes, shown between 2001 and 2011. In Brazil, the series became a success when shown on SBT programming. In 2019, Tom Welling It is Erica Durance returned to live Clark It is Lois in a special appearance in Crisis on Infinite Earthsbig crossover promoted by ArrowverseDC hero series franchise.