Forget Lois Lane, This Is Officially Amy Adams’ Wildest Superhero Role [Exclusive]
At a Fan Expo Boston panel, the cast of Smallville — including Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance and Michael Rosenbaum — reminisced with Collider about the show's most outlandish "freak-of-the-week" episodes from its "freak-of-the-week" format, in which Clark Kent battled a different oddity each week in his hometown. Among the highlights was an early appearance by Amy Adams, who played a character forced to dislocate her jaw to eat a deer, a moment the cast singled out as one of the series' most bizarre. The reminiscence offers a nostalgic, light-hearted look back at the long-running superhero drama 25 years on, and highlights how far Adams has come since her pre-stardom guest role.
The panel also recalled other memorably strange instalments, including Season 4, Episode 21 ("Forever"), in which a villain turned characters to wax with a touch — an episode Durance noted spared Welling's character, Clark, from the transformation. Rosenbaum additionally mentioned the Season 4 episode "Spell," featuring witches, as another standout example of the show's willingness to embrace outlandish, campy storylines during its original run.
- Smallville cast recalled bizarre "freak-of-the-week" episodes at Fan Expo Boston.
- Amy Adams' early role saw her dislocate her jaw to eat a deer.
- Cast also discussed a wax-transformation episode and a witches storyline.
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Smallville, which ran from 2001 to 2011, told the story of a young Clark Kent growing up in Kansas before he became Superman. A signature feature of the show was its "freak-of-the-week" format, in which Clark faced a different strange or supernatural threat in his small hometown almost every episode, alongside the show's regular cast and storylines.
Amy Adams, now a well-known Hollywood actor, appeared in an early guest role on the series before she became famous, playing a character in one of these odd one-off episodes. The cast members who played the show's core characters, including Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Erica Durance and Michael Rosenbaum, recently reunited at a fan convention panel to look back on the series and its more eccentric moments.
This kind of retrospective has become common as long-running genre shows mark anniversaries, giving fans a chance to revisit memorable or unusual episodes and see how the show's cast, including guest stars who later found bigger success, has fared in the years since.