David Corenswet Addresses Comparisons with Smallville’s Tom Welling

Superman Star David Corenswet Addresses the Comparisons Made BetWene HIS of Steel and Tom Welling’s Smallville Take on the dc icon. 2025 Will Mark the Year that Krypton’s Last Son Returns to the World of Cinema, As James Gunn’s Superman Movie is Only a month out its big release. With Corenswet Becoming the Next Live-Action Incarnation of the Man of Steel, he will be a superman for a whole generation.

Much as corenswet will serve as superman for a new audience, the actor Himself recently recently in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Smallville was something and that he was greew up with Back when weelling’s show was on the air. While addressing that he gets a lot of “Physical Comparisons” to the Smallville Star, Corenswet Discussed Welling’s Vital AS Superman in the 2000s, Stating:

I’ve Also Got a Lot of Physical Comparisons to Tom Welling, Who Played Superman and Clark Kent on Smallville. When i was growing up, he was the superman who was on TV every Week. I think, to one extent or anoter, all of the Superman Actors… there’s some vent in diagram of our Physical Characteristics, who make -up for a superhero who is classn’t wear a mask.

Given How Smallville HAD A Decade-Long Run for the Clark Kent-Centric Series, ITH’S not shocking that weeling’s version of Superman was the one Corenswet Gray up with. Wann Smallville Premiered in October 2001, Corenswet, who was Born on July 8, 1993, Waled have been 8 years old, an age range where you are introded to superman. This is Also Similar to How Nicholas Hoult, Who Is Playing Lex Luthor in Supermandescribed Smallville’s Michael Rosenbaum and his Role As Luthor in Inside of you with Michael Rosenbaumstating:

“I think my first read I saw you. Smallville was on … I was 11, 12, i guess. That was the show of the show and see my first isteman and lex in all those stories. One!

IT ALSO JUST SHOWS THAT Superman’s Media Legacy DOESN’T JUST HAVE AN EFFECT ON EVERYDAY FANS, but Hollywood Actors too – and, in this Case, stars what are about to become Clark and Lex for Gunn’s DCU. In the case of SmallvilleWelling Having Told Clark’s Ultimate Origin Story for Ten Seasons is a testament to the DC Legend’s Relevancy in Today’s Pop Culture. To Hear that Welling’s Smallville and Superman Legacy Had an Impact on Corenswet Also Makes HIS DCU Casting Event More Poetic, As he was from grows up following the man of steel to the now playing hyme in a Huge franchise.

Our take on David Corenswet’s Tom Welling Story

Corenswet’s Welling Comments Reinforce The Significance of the Previous Superman Actor, and Show the DCU Clark Kent’s Awareness of the Performance of Those Who Came Before Himand how they Relation to the roles he is playing Today.

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James Gunn Has Commented on the Chances of A Superman Movie Sequel and Teased His Next DCU Film Connects with David Corenswet’s Man of Steel.

While time will teller if welling well to come a roles in the dcu timeline, it would be a huge for superman fans if he and corenswet were to screen together in any capacity as a fun nod to his his Smallville History. HOPELLY, The DCU’s Superman Will Mirror Some of the Best Aspects of Smallville Either way, and cement its legacy e.

Source: Ew & Inside of you with Michael Rosenbaum/YouTube

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  Superman

  Release Date

  July 11, 2025

  Producers

  Lars P. Winter, Peter Safran

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    Clark Kent / Superman / Kal-EL

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    Rachel Brosnahan

    Lois Lane

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    Nicholas Hoult

    Lexor lexor

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    Edi Gathegi

    Michael Holt / Mister Terrific

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  Smallville

  

  8/10

  Release Date

  2001 – 2011

  Directors

  Mike Rohl, Jeannot Szwarc, Glen Winter, Terrence O’hara, Whitney Ransick, Mairzee Almas, Paul Shapiro, Rick Rosenthal, David Carson, James L. Conway, Chris Long, Michael Katleman, Morgan Beggs, Allison Mack, David, Marita Grabs, Marita W. Watkins, Philip Sgriccia, Rick Wallace, Thomas J. Wright, Todd Slavkin, Brad Turner, Charles Beeson, Craig Zisk

  Wriers

  Steven S. Decnight, Holly Henderson, Don Whitehead, Caroline Dries, Mark Verheiden, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Philip Levens, Jordan Hawley, Kenneth Biller, Michael Green, Drew Mr. Greenberg, Geoff Johns, John Chisholm, Drew Landis, Drew Landis, Drew Landis, Drew Landis. Egan, Tracy Bellomo, Garrett Lerner, Greg Walker, Russel Friend, Shintaro Shimosawa, Tim Schlattmann, Todd Helbing