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Cassidy Freeman Talks Smallville

The Smallville star discusses Tess Mercer, zombies and Lex Luthor!
With Lex Luthor out of the picture, Smallville needed another villain to step in and fill his shoes. That role seemed to be filled by actress Cassidy Freeman's character, Tess Mercer, but Freeman wouldn't use that word to describe her character.


"I think instead of being a villain or a hero, she's a human. I think that she wants certain things, I think that her morals are pretty iffy and questionable, and that she might do a bad thing to get something good done. But I don't think that she's too easily categorized."

Freeman said that she doesn't know if Smallville will get a 10th season, but that she is "contracted through season ten if they want me."

Tess Mercer was turned into a zombie after being exposed to Major Zod's virus, which Freeman said was a nice change of pace.

"...it was actually really, really fun. I enjoyed playing something different."

Freeman admitted that much of what she knows about Smallville she's not allowed to talk about, but other things she simply does not know.

"I don't know that Tess knows that Oliver is the Green Arrow. I don't even know that Tess knows what the Green Arrow is. But she definitely knows a lot about Clark, and I think that the reason she doesn't out him is that it's a power play for her. She knows something that other people don't know, and I think that Tess enjoys that -- I think she enjoys having that kind of power.

Is Lex dead? For all Tess Mercer knows, he is. For all Cassidy Freeman knows... I have no idea."
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Brent Sprecher
10/16/2009
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19 Comments

I dont like her character. She is extremely hot and a good actress but Tess seems like a second rate female Lex Luthor
dancingmonkey08 - 10/16/2009, 11:11 AM
Dancing @ Thats basically coz she is lol, but she does make a god villain!!

Better than that lame attempt of using a great character like DOOMSDAY and sh!tting all over it!!!

DOOMSDAY is mean't for the movies!!
LEEE777 - 10/16/2009, 11:20 AM
LEX'll be back with MICHAEL or not, but he'll be back for an episode!! (Probably the last).
LEEE777 - 10/16/2009, 11:21 AM
I dont think the makers know who Green Arrow is so i wouldnt worry love :P
teabag - 10/16/2009, 11:30 AM
i like that they included mercy in this series. it is one of the rare things the kept right in the storyline. mercy working for lex

Jp499 - 10/16/2009, 11:37 AM
I say a GREEN ARROW spin off show a must!!

Lol @ TEA ; D
LEEE777 - 10/16/2009, 11:38 AM
so true LEEE, only a movie could accurately portray Doomsday properly with CGI (if done right by a proper director of course)
dancingmonkey08 - 10/16/2009, 11:40 AM
I dont think a GA series would last more than one season.....just not sure these guys could do much with the character :)
teabag - 10/16/2009, 11:53 AM
I hope Lex's return is a surprise, I don't want to know, I want to be surprised when he shows up. If there is a season 10, I don't see Michael Rosenbaum returning until sometime in the middle/end of Season 10. Unless he gets bored and wants to come back early. What is he really working on anyway?
Timerider84 - 10/16/2009, 12:06 PM
Shes alright as a villain, very easy on the eyes. If Lex is actually dead this show must burn in the fiery chasm from whence it came!
Rorschach01 - 10/16/2009, 12:09 PM
Dancing @ Exactly dude!!
LEEE777 - 10/16/2009, 12:18 PM
Brent: Nice find! :) I wasnt mad about her at first, but she is growing on me!

Lex is a great villan, however he had run his course on the show!
BigNick - 10/16/2009, 12:23 PM
she is great and HOT
Denn1s - 10/16/2009, 12:26 PM
There are times i think she's hot then times i look at her and think i wouldnt with logan-X's ;(
teabag - 10/16/2009, 12:39 PM
is she now @leee damn boy your soooooooo in need of a arse kicking!!
lc - 10/16/2009, 1:05 PM
wow i havent seen this show in such a long time i dont even think this character was in the show last i watched it.

she's hot as hell though!!! ;)
Duhdaduh - 10/16/2009, 2:03 PM
She's a crap character and a realy awful replacement for Rosenbaum's Lex!

The way they killed off Lex was embarresingly bad and i unfortunately dont see MR coming back...he left Smallville before it got any worse (which it clearly did in Season 8 after all!)
joshw24 - 10/16/2009, 3:16 PM
AWW THROW THE SHOW A BONE ITS ENTERTAINING..SURE THEY STRAYED FROM THE LORE A BIT, MADE CHANGES,CLARK NOT FLYING, NOT EXPLAINING HOW HE WILL IN THE FUTURE BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO EVERYONE IN FULL GEEK REGALIA WHEN EVERYONE SEES HIM WITH HIS GLASSES OFF NOW..SURE..THEY CAN FIX IT..HONEST THOUGH SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS, HOT SEXY FEMALES..HMMMM GOOD.
GUNSMITH - 10/16/2009, 3:21 PM
GUNSMITH@ if thats what i want to see il look in my hard drive ..or here lol :)
teabag - 10/16/2009, 3:43 PM

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