If there's a cure for the press tour ennui, it's Erica Durance. The "Smallville" star has raised the bar for Lois Lane -- a character played by dozens of legendary actresses -- and it would be easy to be intimidated by her, especially as the series winds to a close and she secures her place as a television icon.
Still, when we meet Durance in the hotel bar after the CW Cocktail Party winds to a close, intimidation isn't what comes to mind. She's kicked backed comfortably, and despite having spent the day with a veritable who's-who of Hollywood, her Canadian-girl roots are undeniable as she orders fries with gravy from a waiter who stares at her like she's speaking a foreign language.
"Or ketchup," she says. "Ketchup would be great."
The actress is all smiles, and with good reason - it is, after all, Durance Day, or #DuranceDay, as hash-tagged by the thousands of Twitter fans looking forward to Durance's appearance on The CW's "Kick Ass Women" TCA panel. "I'm very computer illiterate," she admits. "I check my email, and that sort of thing, and for a long time I didn't even know what Twitter was. I know enough now to sort of understand, so hearing that they did that - I'm really touched!"
Keeping with the spirit of #DuranceDay, we made sure to ask Durance plenty of questions sent in by Twitter users - and she answered happily. Perhaps the most endearing thing about her is that she's as much of a fan as we all are. She's more aware than anyone of the decade that fans have invested in the show, and she's determined to do her part to make sure it pays off.
Zap2it: Let's talk about that proposal in the most recent episode, "Icarus." Did you see that coming?
Durance: No! Honestly, I was really surprised, when I read the script. I thought, 'Oh, that's happening fast!' It was great on so many levels, though. It was fun for me as my character, that's she's now found that sort of love and trust that she's really been looking for. And as an actress it was fun, too, because who doesn't want to experience that? Petals falling from the sky, and this debonair man walking across the street in the dark -- I felt like I was in a movie, and that sounds really cheesy, but I felt like a princess.
It was Clark Kent's Clark Gable moment.
Durance: That's what we were going for, a sort of old, classic romance, but still feeling real within the "Smallville" world.
Now that she and Cat Grant have formed a bit of a reluctant alliance, can we expect to see them team up more at work?
Durance: I do cross paths with Cat again, but we still see things from a different angle. I don't see that they're going to team up much for a lot of investigative work or anything, but there's a bit more of an understanding between them. For Cat, she's sort of threatened by Lois. There's a lot of competition there. Lois's focus is still Clark and protecting him, and Cat still wants to expose the Blur, so that serves to get the competition going again.
As much as we love the romance, I think a lot of fans have missed seeing Lois doing what she does best at the Daily Planet.
Durance: I think that in the evolution of the relationship, they're in this time of great romance, and we wanted to show people that, the lighthearted moments that can be funny and that the fans can really enjoy. You'll see Lois back at work very soon, though. Lately, we've seen Lois get really involved in the Justice League, and she needs to find her place within that world. It turns out that her way of getting involved is to do the investigative work, go undercover, and get into trouble, and be an asset to the heroes.
We'll be getting more into that undercover stuff, and in the episodes we're shooting now, she's playing a much larger role in the dual identity thing that ultimately becomes a huge part of Clark's (Tom Welling) future. Which is incredibly sexy, by the way. My god.
We got to see Clark and Lois's future together in "Homecoming," with the dual identity in full force. Will there be any more time-jumps or glimpses into the future?
Durance: I can't say whether we'll actually see their future, but we've started to drop a lot more hints about the little things that will eventually make up Clark's destiny. There are a few things that we've worked in that are really going to get fans of the comics and the Superman legend excited. You start to see Clark's core strength, too, so that he starts making these important choices about his life and who he's going to be as Superman and as Clark and how he's going to balance those worlds.
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