Clark Kent/Superman actor Tom Welling looks back on why he didn’t play his Smallville character in the other DC shows until the 2019 crossover event for the Arrowverse.

On the latest episode of Talk Ville Podcast, hosted by Welling and his Smallville co-star Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor, the actors had a conversation with KryptonSite’s Craig Byrne about the overall legacy of the series, including the return of Clark and Lois Lane in Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover. During their discussion, Welling admitted that the reason why it took until 2019 for him to reprise his Smallville role was because when he was initially offered to appear on the other shows several years prior, it didn’t feel quite right, sharing the following:

I was asked to be in a lot of the other shows after Smallville ended, I was asked to sort of appear in them as Clark and it never felt like their tone was the same as Clark was or what Smallville was. I still believe that in the crossover what you see Clark doing and giving up his powers and being with Lois for their family, that might not be the Clark from Smallville because it’s a multiverse.

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