Actress Erica Durance is opening up about playing Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane in the hit WB series, Smallville, which had a 10-season run until 2011.
During a February 2026 Smallville panel at Fan Expo Vancouver, alongside her castmatesTom Welling, who played Clark Kent, and Kristin Kreuk, who played Lana Lang, Durance said she once walked off the show’s set. The actress, who joined the show during its 4th season, said she was annoyed by her co-star Michael Rosenbaum. She recalled trying to get through a scene with Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor, while he was goofing off.
“I think I only had three scenes with [Rosenbaum] and one of them, I left mid-scene and that was at the beginning,” said Durance, causing Kreuk to laugh. “And he was just jacking around when I was trying to say one line and I’m already my own worst enemy and I was like, ‘Screw this crap. I’m out of here.’ And I just left.”
Durance said that Rosenbaum was unaware she was upset.
“Everyone was like ‘Michael you hurt her feelings.’ And he was like, ‘What?’ ‘Cause he’s totally unaware,” quipped Durance.
Welling then explained that “Michael has a very unique process” as an actor, where he’s able to “goof around” and “jump off the walls” right before filming a scene.
“They start to roll the camera and he jumps right in and then the cut and he jumps back out. I don’t really work that way. I kind of have to stay semi-focused,” said Welling on the panel.
Erica Durance Got Candid About Joining ‘Smallville’ During Its 4th Season
Durance has made several appearances on Welling and Rosenbaum’s Smallville-themed podcast, Talkville. For instance, she recorded a February 2024 episode, wherein she shared she was constantly nervous when she first joined the Smallville cast. Rosenbaum replied that he never realized she was nervous because she was a “genius” and “so good” at playing Lois.
“You don’t really see what other people see I think you want to do well and you don’t want to let anybody down,” said Durance on the 2024 podcast episode.
She also noted she was joining an already well-established cast as a new character.
“The last thing you want to do is be of any kind of detraction,” said the actress to Welling and Rosenbaum.
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