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With only two episodes left, things have never looked more dire for the Kent family.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is such a Lex-heavy episode, and you directed it as well.
Michael Cudlitz, ‘Superman & Lois’.Colin Bentley/The CW
What was it like juggling all of that at the same time?
MICHAEL CUDLITZ:[Laughs] The inside of my head was a loud place at that time.
Yeah, it was exciting and terrifying and wonderful and immensely creatively fulfilling.
Yvonne Chapman, Michael Cudlitz, ‘Superman & Lois’.Colin Bentley/The CW
I said, “Of course.
I kind of thought this conversation might come up later, but of course.”
He mentioned it first and pursued it, and I was more than happy to jump on it.
And at the time, the show was not canceled.
In my mind I was like, “This is a no-brainer.
This show’s going to go for many, many years.”
It was all very exciting very early on.
It’s kind of hilarious.
I’m still really sorting out who Lex is."
It’ll just be a lot easier for you, time-wise."
I said, “Oh, awesome.”
There’s nothing I can say but, “Okay, sure.
And then I get the script.
And he tries to play it off.
At this point, he’s just giving me a hard time.
He’s like, “No, no.
You’re just in the interview stuff.”
I said, “Todd, that’s like four days of shooting.”
He’s like, “Well yeah, but it’s on the one set.”
I go, “Okay, I see where this is headed.”
But yeah, it’s a huge episode for Lex.”
There’s a bunch of events that happen.
It’s the old, “How do you eat a dinosaur?”
story: One bite at a time.
And that’s how we approached the episode.
We just started chunking away at it.
There’s some people who will not care for this version of Lex.
There’s very, very divided camps when it comes to Superman and the characters.
I’ve joked about this before.
Or in the live action, they loveSmallville, they love the Snyderverse or the Arrowverse.
There’s these camps within, but they all have the same thing in common: They love Superman.
And I’m 100 percent fine with that.
It was really exciting and creatively satisfying for me.
We need to talk about Lex and Amanda’s kiss.
I don’t know.
We’re going to see.
The kiss itself was really interesting.
And then in the end, it turned out we actually were able to.
And I had never directed something like that before with myself.
Yvonne Chapman is fantastic, and she was very present and very giving and trusting in that scene.
And that’s the only way that that could have happened.
It’s very intimate stuff.
There’s a lot of consent issues.
And you want to make something creatively wonderful, but you also want to be respectful to everybody involved.
This is what I’m going to do."
It is very sensitive storytelling, very sensitive content, and it needs to be handled that way.
And I was very, very lucky to have an amazing crew around me.
What was it like working with Tom Cavanagh as Lex and Godfrey sway public opinion against Lois?
[Laughs] He was wonderful.
He had directed on the show many times.
He knew the cast.
He knew the crew.
He was very respectful of my vision.
He’s literally what you want in an actor.
You want him to come completely prepared.
And he did all of those things.
I could not have asked for a more positive experience.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Superman & Loisairs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CW.
