Smallville star Tom Welling recently opened up about the opportunity he had to work with Christopher Reeve when he appeared in the fan-favorite Superman series.
Reeve appeared in one episode of the series, and according to Welling, it was a great experience for Reeve who wanted to work on the show longer than he was allowed to.
When talking about how everything came together for Reeve’s appearance in the series, Welling said: “I knew like three days before. You only get a script every 10 days, and then by the time you get the script, you’re shooting it three days later.
“And I remember it was Greg, again, same guy, and he comes to set, and he goes, ‘So, what are you doing this weekend?’ and I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And I was like, ‘Great. I [gotta] do a photo shoot,’ Like, He [goes,] ‘I think on Friday, we’re gonna film in the morning, we’re gonna get on a plane, we’re gonna fly to New York and shoot Saturday and Sunday in New York.’
“And I was like, ‘Why? I don’t want to go to!’ [Greg says] ‘Well, we got Chris, and we have [him] for three hours on Saturday,’ and then I was like, ‘Okay…that’s a good idea.’“
Welling didn’t know he would be working alongside Reeve until just days before they had met. He shared his experience saying:
“We flew out, and next day we shot – Chris was only supposed to be there for three hours, and I think he stayed six or seven until his nurse, who had like Power of Attorney over him, physically.
“I remember her saying – because he didn’t want to leave, he wanted to stay, to do the scenes with me, because we originally were just going to film his side, and then he was going to leave, and then I was going to work with somebody else and film my side, but he wanted to stay – ‘If you don’t come with me, I’m going to call the police and I’m going to have you taken out of here.’
“‘And he looked at me, and he goes, ‘They always tell me what to do,’ and he just started laughing. He did end up having to leave, but he really wanted to be there. We had a lot of fun.”
It’s pretty awesome that Welling had the opportunity to work with Reeve even if it was for only a short time.
In the episode, Reeve played a brilliant and wealthy scientist named Dr. Virgil Swann who came across a message from Krypton and tracked down Clark Kent as a member of the alien race.
Via: ScreeRant
