'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.
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00:00I may or may not have a pair of Clark Kent glasses.
00:03Oh yeah, you deserve those.
00:05Yeah.
00:12Hi, 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
00:22in Hall H today and getting to give them a special preview of Season 4?
00:27Very 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.
00:34That was the first time that I'd seen the clip.
00:36Have you seen the clip?
00:37I hadn't seen that clip.
00:38Yeah.
00:39Just the short one.
00:40No, so I think very cool to give everybody kind of a sneak peek
00:42of what's coming up this season.
00:44And at least from my point of view, it seems like very obvious
00:47that even though we had a few restrictions this year,
00:50it's not really going to change much.
00:52Pretty awesome.
00:53I 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,
01:04and it's hot, and they're waiting in line for hours and hours.
01:08And I'm just so appreciative of genre fans because they're so loyal
01:13and they're wonderful and they're astute and they're great.
01:16And it was humbling to be in Hall H today,
01:21and it was a great way to end the series.
01:24Yeah.
01:25Season 3 ended on a major cliffhanger,
01:27and I'm sure you probably can't say much,
01:29but what can you tease about the fourth and final season?
01:32I can say that we're killing Superman.
01:34We're doing the death of Superman.
01:38Like always, we take these comic book runs
01:42and put it into the Superman and Lois Blender
01:45and put our own stamp on it, so we're all really excited.
01:48It turned out pretty great.
01:50For Bitsy and Tyler, since this is the final season,
01:53what will you miss most about the show and playing these characters?
01:59I already miss the crew, I will say that.
02:02It was often very tough, cold, rainy, muddy conditions shooting in Vancouver,
02:07and it really was a labor of love.
02:10The show looks like it has a much bigger budget than it ever actually did,
02:14and that was because everybody put their heart and soul into it.
02:17And I miss working with Tyler.
02:19I miss how much he makes fun of me.
02:21That is my love language. I love being teased.
02:23He tapped into that right away.
02:26And I miss, you know, I will, it's fun to be,
02:30like sometimes my husband David reminds me,
02:32like, you're going to be Lois Lane for the rest of history.
02:35You're one of a small group of actresses, and that's really humbling,
02:39and I'm grateful to have been a part of that for the last six years
02:43and to be able to play, as a feminist myself,
02:47to 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.
02:57Echoing a lot of that, missing the crew, missing the cast,
03:02missing 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.
03:13But 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 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,
03:31not having to leave it all behind.
03:33So I think it's in good hands for the future of it,
03:36and so it's kind of like, yeah, I think it's more the personal side of it,
03:40our personal experience, but as far as the actual project goes,
03:45it kind of lives on.
03:47How do you hope your portrayals of Superman and Lois
03:50have added to the great legacy of these characters?
03:53I think we will always stand out as having been the first live-action version
03:57that was them as parents,
03:59and I think that kind of sort of cements us as,
04:02oh, Lois and Clark did have kids,
04:05and also just for live-action to have done a series
04:10that 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,
04:27and to tap into that thing that Lois and Clark are in love with each other,
04:31they're these great parents, and they're also great 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,
04:43I'm going to miss that probably the most of all.
04:46Yeah, I'm going to miss a lot of what Bitsy and Tyler said.
04:49The writers, going to the writers' room every day,
04:52such a great group of people.
04:54The cast, amazing.
04:56Across the board, the crew, the hardest working,
04:59the visual effects team, amazing.
05:02For four years, we all bought into this idea of we're doing Superman and Lois Lane,
05:07so whatever you have to give, give, and then some, and they did.
05:11For 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.
05:20I wish everybody the best of luck,
05:22but they're always going to be Superman and Lois Lane to me.
05:25Hear, hear.
05:27Were any of you able to steal anything from the set?
05:31Indeed I was.
05:33I wouldn't call it stealing, though.
05:36From the pilot episode, I have a mug that says L on it.
05:40Then I was gifted by Elliot, our prop guy, Lois' suitcase,
05:45which I refused to wear the entire run of the series
05:48because I don't like props unless they're necessary.
05:51So I have that, and it has LL on it.
05:55I really, really wanted to pay homage to the comics throughout,
05:59with the wardrobe, even today.
06:02I decided, yes, this is taking place in 2020, I guess, when it started,
06:07but I had decided instead of her taking notes on an iPad or an iPhone,
06:11I'm like, I want old-school little notepad.
06:14So I got the notepad, but the coolest thing I have from the show
06:17was during the Bizarro episode when they destroyed our house
06:21and everything was backwards.
06:23What season was that, two?
06:25There was this cool, just kind of roughed-up painting
06:29of the back of an elephant sitting on a tree in the Kent kitchen,
06:35and I was like, I need that.
06:37It's beautiful. It's beautiful.
06:39So I talked to set deck, and they were like,
06:41well, we're never going to do the Bizarro again, so it's yours.
06:44That's my favorite thing I have from the show.
06:46How about you?
06:47I think we got this hand-stitched sign that says,
06:50It Went By So Fast, which hangs in their kitchen,
06:53and it's kind of symbolic of the show.
06:55So Todd and I took one of those for the road,
06:58and it kind of means a lot.
07:00Aw, you both have one?
07:02Oh, that's nice. That's nice.
07:04What about you?
07:05I may or may not have a pair of Clark Kent glasses.
07:09Oh yeah, you deserve those.
07:11So yeah. Other than that, I don't want to get in trouble.
07:15Tyler got to the point where he felt naked without them on his face.
07:20I did, I did. There's a spoiler, but I'm not going to give it away.
07:23No, you can't. I almost did. I stopped myself.
07:26Thank God. I was close.
07:28So close.
07:29It's okay. We're halfway through the day. It's great.
07:33That's awesome.
07:35And coming up, we'll soon see David Cornswet and Rachel Brosnahan
07:38take on these roles in the new Superman movie.
07:40Have you gotten the chance to chat with them at all?
07:43No, I did. When I posted my sort of adieu message on Instagram,
07:48I passed the torch to her, and she responded.
07:52Again, while we are all sad that the series came to an end
07:56faster than we thought it would,
07:58we are grateful to DC Comics for giving us the opportunity to close it out.
08:02And I personally sort of know James Gunn and Peter Safran.
08:06I think highly of both of them.
08:08And I trust that whatever they have planned for the DC universe
08:11is going to be great.
08:14Yeah, for me, from the day I started this,
08:17I was always very aware of just being a small piece of a very large legacy.
08:21So there was always that idea of like passing the baton
08:24whenever that day came, which is now.
08:28Again, very, very honored and privileged to have been a part of this
08:32and super happy to pass it off to David.
08:34I'm sure he's going to do a great job.
08:36He did send me a really nice letter as we were wrapping up.
08:39So 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.
08:45Since 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.
08:56I'll grab it.
09:02Is this for the group, or is this just my question?
09:05You can all answer if you want.
09:07Who is the most iconic voice in an animated series that comes to mind?
09:14I have to answer this.
09:16My husband, David Gintoli from Grimm,
09:19voices Batman in some of the DC animated movies.
09:24I don't even know what they're called, like The Doom That Came to Gotham
09:27and then some others, so I have to say David.
09:31Who also directed episode 3 of Superman and Lois and killed it?
09:36This doesn't say DC, so I'm going to veer a little bit.
09:38I'm going to say Tom Hanks as Woody.
09:41I feel like that's got to be pretty close to the top.
09:50Let's pull out another one.
09:52Bitsy, you want to pull one out?
09:54He just did a voiceover the other day in the car, and he pressed play.
09:58I 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 last show.
10:08Tobin Bell did Savitar, and Tobin Bell is awesome, so that was pretty fun.
10:22If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Teleportation.
10:26Invisibility.
10:29Flight.
10:35You really want to get up there all cold and wet?
10:37Wouldn't you rather just arrive?
10:39No, but there's no speed limit.
10:41We didn't say fly slowly.
10:43We just said fly, so we can fly very, very fast.
10:45It's totally fine.
10:47I worry about the B side of teleportation.
10:49Like the A side, you disappear.
10:51Do you reappear? Do you reappear all at one part?
10:55Yeah, you reappear with all of your hair and makeup intact.
10:58In theory.
11:00She's making the rules.
11:08What's the best costume you've seen so far?
11:13I haven't seen any this year.
11:15I actually haven't seen any.
11:17I was walking, the boys and Amy and I were walking down to eat yesterday,
11:22and I thought it was Hugh Jackman.
11:24There was a Wolverine, chops, everything.
11:26Spot on.
11:28He was taking pictures with kids.
11:30My kids dressed up, so I'm taking them.
11:32I was just going to say your children.
11:34Also the only costumes I've seen, but your adorable children.
11:38Ringers.