![]() ![]() His film "White Wolves II: the Legend of the Wild," with Corin Nemec and Jeremy London, is due out this spring. That led to guest spots in series and a role in last year's short-lived "It Had to Be You" with Urich and Dunaway. at 13 - "My first official TV gig," he said. Whalin began with live theater in San Francisco at age 11, appearing in a production of "The Little Prince." A visiting casting director from "General Hospital" gave an acting class there, and was impressed enough to fly Whalin to Los Angeles to test for a role. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia and Jurgan Prochnow as past collaborators. He will keep you laughing all day long." Whalin also can reel off the names he has worked with before "Lois & Clark." "I've been real lucky," he said, naming Faye Dunaway and Robert Urich, Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston, Craig T. Whalin is enthusiastic about working with the "Lois & Clark" cast and crew, especially Hatcher, Cain and Smith. "We wanted to bring in new villains and try to make the villains worthy opponents of Superman," said Singer, who said the writers have borrowed from the comic book characters, including evildoers Prankster (played by Bronson Pinchot) and Metallo (Scott Valentine). Luthor, last seen in a deep freeze in the charge of a sexy blond scientist, returns tonight, with a cue ball for a head and a vengeful, back-from-the-dead hangover. She was, after all, engaged to marry him. Singer said Shea "did a terrific job," but explained that "the problem we had with that was to keep that same villain afloat each week," not to mention the question of when Lois was going to catch on that Luthor was the mastermind behind every Metropolis crime wave. We're just trying to do it better." Absent this year is Superman's chief nemesis, Lex Luthor, played by John Shea. "I don't think we've lost any of the romance. "I think we've done the Superman stuff better, the visual effects," said Singer. In the comic books there was a long-lost father and we're trying to find him." Whalin's replacement is part of the show's second-season overhaul, along with other changes since Singer ("Midnight Caller" "Reasonable Doubts") took over as executive producer from creator Deborah Joy Levine, now listed as executive consultant. Although Olsen isn't an orphan, Singer added, "We've never seen his family. When he flies down to search for Dad, Whalin explained, he runs into trouble, needing Superman's assistance. In an April episode, Olsen, who believes his parents are dead, will hear that his father may be alive in South America. And there may be some plot lines that are only for Jimmy," said Whalin. "The show this year has become a little more action-packed, so Jimmy is getting in the action, involved in the plot lines, needing Superman's help himself. In choosing Whalin, he added, "We hope that he would appeal to a teen a little more." And Whalin's Olsen has had more screen time than Landes. "We thought he and Dean were a little close in age and in type," offered series producer Robert Singer. "Maybe my concern to begin with was unfounded." Whalin explained that the producers replaced Landes because they thought he looked too much like lead Dean Cain. "I'm doing it because the show and the network would like me to do it." He wants his acting, not his face, to speak for itself. I don't want to overload it, I don't want to do the teen thing," he said. The 20-year-old actor first posed years ago when he guest-starred on "Charles in Charge" and again when filmmaker John Waters asked him to as a tie-in for "Serial Mom." Reluctant, he resisted other requests until he landed "Lois & Clark." "I've started to do them again for the series. Fitting the bill as a teen hunk, Whalin sheepishly admitted to posing for teen magazines in the past. ![]() Jimmy Olsen, the budding Daily Planet photographer who trails Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher), Clark Kent (Dean Cain) and Perry White (Lane Smith), used to be played by actor Michael Landes, but was replaced this year by a noticeably younger Justin Whalin, winner of a 1994 Emmy (for a "CBS Schoolbreak Special" titled "Other Mothers"). Well, Olsen never left, actually, but he looks a lot different this season. When the producers of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" decided to revamp the show after the first season, villain Lex Luthor left and aspiring newsman Jimmy Olsen arrived.
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