'Superman & Lois' stars Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch and executive producers Brent Fletcher and Todd Helbing chat with THR at San Diego Comic-Con and dish on the final season of the show. Plus, the stars share what they are going to miss about filming and passing the torch to David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan.
00:00I may or may not have a pair of Clark Kent glasses, I think.
00:03Oh yeah, you deserve those.
00:05Yeah.
00:11Hi, we are the stars and executive producers of Superman and Lois,
00:15and we are here with The Hollywood Reporter at Comic-Con.
00:18First, I have to ask, what was it like being up there in front of a massive crowd of fans in Hall H today
00:23and getting to give them a special preview of season four?
00:25Ah, very special.
00:28This is the only Comic-Con that we've been here as a group to do for the show,
00:32so that's a very cool thing.
00:33And this was the first time that I'd seen the clip.
00:35Had you seen the clip?
00:36I hadn't seen that clip.
00:38Yeah.
00:38Just the short one.
00:39No, so I think very cool to give everybody kind of a sneak peek of what's coming up this season.
00:44And at least from my point of view, it seems like very obvious that even though we had a few restrictions this year,
00:49it's not really going to change much.
00:52Pretty awesome.
00:52I took a great video that I posted on my Instagram of the whole crowd,
00:57and everybody was so pumped up.
00:59And every time I'm here, I can see the line out of my hotel window, and it's hot,
01:05and they're waiting in line for hours and hours.
01:08And I'm just so appreciative of genre fans because they're so loyal, and they're wonderful,
01:14and they're astute, and they're great.
01:16And it was humbling to be in Hall H today, and it was a great way to end the series.
01:24Season three ended on a major cliffhanger, and I'm sure you probably can't say much,
01:28but what can you tease about the fourth and final season?
01:31I can say that we're killing Superman.
01:35We're doing the death of Superman.
01:38Like always, we take these comic book runs and put it into the Superman and Lois blender
01:44and put our own stamp on it, so we're all really excited.
01:48It turned out pretty great.
01:49For Bitsy and Tyler, since this is the final season,
01:52what will you miss most about the show and playing these characters?
01:58I already miss the crew.
02:00I will say that.
02:01You know, it was often very tough, cold, rainy, muddy conditions shooting in Vancouver,
02:07and it really was a labor of love.
02:09And, you know, the show looks like it has a much bigger budget than it ever actually did,
02:13and that was because everybody put their heart and soul into it.
02:16And I miss working with Tyler.
02:18I miss how much he makes fun of me.
02:20That is my love language.
02:22I love being teased.
02:23He tapped into that right away.
02:25And I miss, you know, I will, it's fun to be, like, sometimes my husband David reminds me,
02:32like, you're going to be Lois Lane for the rest of history.
02:34You're one of a small group of actresses, and that's really humbling,
02:39and I'm grateful to have been, you know, a part of that for the last six years,
02:43and to be able to play as a feminist myself,
02:46to be able to play a woman who has remained so iconic as a fierce woman
02:52and an inspiration to men and women since 1938.
02:59Echoing a lot of that, missing the crew, missing the cast, missing all these incredible people.
03:05It's been a lot of fun for the years that we had,
03:08so I think I'll miss everybody here and back up in Vancouver the most.
03:12But I think it's strange, because as much as it feels like saying goodbye to something,
03:18we're a piece of something much bigger,
03:21and so, you know, these characters we're going to live on,
03:24and not just our versions of them, but new versions of them.
03:27And so it's kind of saying goodbye, but in a strange way, not having to leave it all behind.
03:32So I think it's in good hands for the future of it,
03:35and so it's kind of like, yeah, I think it's more the personal side of it,
03:39our personal experience, but as far as, like, the actual project goes,
03:45it kind of lives on, so.
03:47How do you hope your portrayals of Superman and Lois have added to the great legacy of these characters?
03:52I think we will always stand out as having been the first live-action version that was them as parents,
03:58and I think that kind of sort of cements us as, oh, Lois and Clark did have kids,
04:04and also just, you know, for live-action to have done a series that was so cinematic and so grounded.
04:13I'm going to echo one of my favorite responses about the show.
04:17I hope people look back at it and just go, not bad.
04:21Brent and Todd, what will you miss about working on this show?
04:24It's just nice to work on a show about family, you know,
04:26and to tap into that thing that Lois and Clark are the, you know, in love with each other.
04:31They're these great parents, and they're also great, you know, spouses to each other,
04:36and just to tap into a dynamic that's complicated and weird and funny,
04:40which is, like, being a parent in real life, I'm going to miss that probably most of all.
04:45Yeah, I'm going to miss, like, a lot of what Bitsy and Tyler said.
04:49You know, the writers going to the writer's room every day, such a great group of people.
04:53The cast, amazing, across the board, the crew, the hardest working, our visual effects team, amazing.
05:01And for four years, we all, like, bought into this idea of, like, we're doing Superman and Lois Lane,
05:07so whatever you have to give, give, and then some, and they did.
05:11And for me, personally, Bitsy and Tyler are always going to be Superman and Lois Lane.
05:17There's just never, I just don't see it.
05:19I wish everybody the best of luck, but they're always going to be Superman and Lois Lane to me.
05:25Hear, hear.
05:26Were any of you able to steal anything from the set?
05:31Indeed, I was.
05:32I wouldn't call it stealing, though.
05:34I have, from the pilot episode, I have a mug that says L on it.
05:39Then I was gifted by Elliot, our prop guy, Lois's suitcase, which I refused to wear the entire run of the series
05:47because I don't like props, unless they're necessary.
05:50So I have that.
05:51It has LL on it.
05:53And I also, I really, really wanted to pay homage to the comics throughout, with the wardrobe, you know, even today.
06:01And I decided, you know, yes, this is taking place in, like, 2020, I guess, when it started.
06:06But I had decided, instead of her, like, taking notes on an iPad or an iPhone, I'm like, I want old school little notepad.
06:14So I got the notepad.
06:15But the coolest thing I have from the show was during the Bizarro episode, when they, like, destroyed our house and everything was backwards.
06:22What season was that, two?
06:24Two.
06:24Two.
06:25There was this cool, just kind of roughed up painting of the back of an elephant sitting on a tree in the Kent kitchen.
06:34And I was like, I need that.
06:36It's beautiful.
06:37It's beautiful.
06:38And so I talked to Set Deck, and they were like, well, we're never going to do the Bizarro again, so it's yours.
06:43So that's my favorite thing I have from the show.
06:45What about you?
06:46I think we got this hand-stitched sign that says, it went by so fast, which hangs in their kitchen, and it's kind of symbolic of the show.
06:55So Todd and I took one of those for the road, and it kind of means a lot.
06:59Oh, we both have one.
07:01Oh, 20.
07:01Oh, that's nice.
07:03That's nice.
07:04What about you?
07:05I may or may not have a pair of Clark Kent glasses.
07:09Oh, yeah.
07:09You deserve those.
07:10Yeah.
07:11So, yeah.
07:12Other than that, I don't want to get in trouble.
07:13Tyler got to the point where he felt naked without them on his face.
07:20I did.
07:20I did.
07:20There's a spoiler, but I'm not going to give it away.
07:22No, you can't.
07:23I almost did.
07:23I stopped myself.
07:25I was close.
07:27So close.
07:28Yeah.
07:29It's okay.
07:29We're halfway through the day.
07:30It's great.
07:33That's awesome.
07:34And coming up, we'll soon see David Cornswett and Rachel Brosnahan take on these roles in the new Superman movie.
07:40Have you gotten the chance to chat with them at all?
07:42No.
07:43I did.
07:43When I posted my sort of adieu message on Instagram, I passed the torch to her, and she responded.
07:51Again, while we were all sad that the series came to an end faster than we thought it would,
07:57we are grateful to DC Comics for giving us the opportunity to close it out.
08:01And I personally sort of know James Gunn and Peter Safran.
08:06I think highly of both of them.
08:07I trust that whatever they have planned for the DC universe is going to be great.
08:12Yeah, for me, from the day I started this, I was always very aware of just being a small piece with a very large legacy.
08:20So there was always that idea of passing the baton, and whenever that day came, which is now, again, very, very honored and privileged to have been a part of this, and super happy to pass it off to David.
08:34I'm sure he's going to do a great job.
08:35He actually did send me a really nice letter as we were wrapping up, so that was really lovely of him to do.
08:41But, yeah, I wish him the best, and I have no doubt they're going to be great.
08:44Since we're at Comic-Con, we're going to do a few wildcard comic questions.
08:49I'm going to give you this bucket, and you just pull one out and answer it.
08:54You can go ahead and grab it.
08:55I'll grab it.
08:56There we go.
08:58I'm like, no, I guess I might get it.
09:00Okay.
09:02Is this for the group, or is this just, this is my question?
09:04You can all answer if you want.
09:07Who is the most iconic voice in an animated series that comes to mind?
09:12I have to answer this.
09:16My husband, David Gentoli from Grimm, voices Batman in some of the DC animated movies, like, I don't even know what they're called, like, The Doom That Came to Gotham, and then, you know, some other, so I have to say David.
09:29Yeah.
09:30Who also directed episode three of Superman and Lois and killed it?
09:35This doesn't say DC, so I'm going to veer a little bit.
09:38I'm going to say Tom Hanks as Woody.
09:39I feel like that's kind of got to be pretty, pretty close to the top.
09:44Yeah.
09:50Let's pull out another one.
09:51Yeah.
09:52Let's see.
09:52You want to pull one out?
09:53Actually, he just did a voiceover the other day in the car, and he pressed play, and I was like, damn, can you just talk like that all the time?
10:01We would have way fewer fights.
10:03You know what, Tobin Bell did Savitar on the Flash show?
10:08Tobin Bell did Savitar, and, you know, Tobin Bell is awesome, so that was pretty fun.
10:15Oh, okay.
10:19I'm going to the left.
10:20All right.
10:22If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
10:24Teleportation.
10:28Invisibility.
10:28Flight.
10:31Sorry.
10:32Flight.
10:33Yeah.
10:34No brainer.
10:35You really want to, like, get up there all cold and wet?
10:38Wouldn't you rather just arrive?
10:40No, but there's no speed limit.
10:42We didn't say fly slowly.
10:43We just said fly.
10:44So we can fly very, very fast.
10:46It's totally fine.
10:47And I worry about the B side of teleportation.
10:50Like the A side, you disappear.
10:52Do you reappear?
10:53Do you reappear all at one part?
10:54Yeah, you reappear with all of your hair and makeup intact.
10:58In theory.
10:59She's making the rules.
11:05Criminate.
11:08What's the best costume you've seen so far?
11:10I haven't seen any this year.
11:14I actually haven't seen any walking around yet.
11:16I saw, I was walking, the boys and Amy and I were walking down to eat yesterday.
11:21And there was, like, I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
11:24Like, there was a Wolverine.
11:25Chops, everything.
11:26Like, spot on.
11:27Yeah, he was taking pictures with kids.
11:29My kids dressed up, so I'm taking them.
11:31I was just going to say, your children.
11:34Also, the only costumes I've seen, but your adorable children.
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