Buddy TV has an interview up with Erica Durance, Smallville’s Lois Lane:
How much pressure was there for you, stepping into such an iconic character?
Well, there was huge pressure. There’s pressure for anyone doing any role, but I think you hit it when you said it right there, it’s a very beloved character. Everyone has their specific idea of who Lois Lane is for them, and you have your overall blueprint, but then you have to try to make it your own. That’s the only way to try to stay truthful to what you’re doing. In Smallville we had a little bit of extra leeway because we were just trying to play Lois younger, so I was able to make mistakes as Lois would make mistakes, just kind of finding her way in Smallville and finding out who she is. In the past few years we’ve kind of been introduced to Lois, her quirkiness, and the repartee she has with Clark, which is really fun. Then slowly, as the seasons have gone by, she’s starting to find out that she really likes this journalism thing. She’s getting to go out and do more and more, which of course I’m enjoying.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I really like Erica Durance, but I feel that she - and, indeed the rest of the cast - are let down by crappy stories.
Is she the best Lois Lane since Margot Kidder? We’ll never know, because half of her appearances involve bikini modelling, and the other half involve her falling in love with…Doiby Dickles, or something.
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December 13th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I think they have “extra leeway” because they don’t have any idea who Lois Lane is.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
It’s doubly annoying since she clearly has talent and chemistry with Tom Welling that Kristin Kreuk has always lacked.