The actor who showed us the beginnings of Superman He has led a life away from the great spotlights.
Few know and know what was about Tom Welling After doing Clark Kent in ‘Smallville’, the series that gave rise to the birth of Superman. Well, his life changed more than expected after his 10 years performing the character, since he did not catapult great premieres as he could have expected.
In fact, if we are not going so far, after the premiere of Smallville, Welling himself tried luck in Hollywood debuting in comedy ‘Cheaper for dozen ', sharing cameras with Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, and Hillary Duff. In addition to this tape, and its subsequent sequel, Welling starred ‘The Fog', although his passage through Hollywood would end up being so mediocre and fleeting as unnoticed.
Even so, the director Brett Rattner presented a project of Superman movie, And the filmmaker asked Tom Welling to star in that film, but Tom Welling would end up dismissing. After the completion of the series in 2011, our Clark Kent would resume his Hollywood career with ‘Parkland’ In 2013, and just a year later he starred next to Kevin Costner ‘Draft Day’.
With the crossover ‘Crisis in infinite lands', the team of producers commanded by Greg Berlanti planned the return of several actors who performed iconic roles of DC Comics, and among the special guests, was Tom Welling, who was also part of the second episode of the crossover. A special in which Welling explained that he had preferred to move on to a more intimate and familiar life in which to enjoy their loved ones away from the spotlights. In Tom himself: "I don't want to be a celebrity for the simple fact of being a celebrity ... I want to work and then go home and live in private."
