Fox’s Homicide in a Small City permits Kristin Kreuk to work with a mess of visitor stars — however she’s particularly holding out hope that her former Smallville love curiosity Tom Welling will make an look.
“We’re actually fortunate that we get all these visitor stars — and we get some spectacular visitor stars. It’s superb [even if] I don’t get to work with all of them,” Kreuk, 42, quipped throughout an unique interview with Us Weekly whereas selling the present with costar Rossif Sutherland.
Kreuk revealed she has been “actually attempting” to get Welling, 48, on the present, including, “As a result of I believe that will be actually enjoyable.”
Based mostly on novels written by L.R. Wright, Homicide in a Small City follows a police chief named Karl (Sutherland) who — together with the assistance of others, together with his girlfriend, Cassandra (Kreuk) — investigates mysterious murders. Season 1 featured visitor appearances from James Cromwell, Stana Katic, Devon Sawa, Paula Patton and Noah Reid.
Kreuk, in the meantime, acquired to reunite along with her former Smallville costar Erica Durance.
“I believe we did extra scenes on an episode [of Murder in a Small Town] than we did your entire time we had been on a Smallville,” Durance, 47, shared with Us in October 2024 throughout a joint interview with Kreuk, who added, “It was nice as a result of we acquired to have scenes collectively, which we actually barely had once we had been on Smallville collectively.”
Kreuk and Durance’s onscreen collaboration was years within the making.
“Erica and I’ve been speaking about working collectively for years and looking for initiatives that we will do this on,” Kreuk recalled. “This was serendipitous. It simply was a present that was capturing round Vancouver — the place we each dwell — and it was a enjoyable position.”
Earlier than collaborating on Homicide in a Small City, Kreuk and Durance appeared on Smallville, which premiered in 2001 and ran for 10 seasons on the WB and later the CW. The present adopted a teenage Clark Kent (Welling) in his early days as a child residing on a farm along with his adoptive mother and father Martha (Annette O’Toole) and Jonathan Kent (John Schneider).
Kreuk performed Clark’s next-door neighbor and longtime crush Lana Lang, whereas Durance joined Smallville in 2004 as Lois Lane a.okay.a Superman’s one real love. Regardless of attending to see her former costars at fan conventions, Kreuk teased makes an attempt to do extra on display collectively.
“It’s humorous as a result of they had been speaking about [bringing] Michael Rosenbaum for a task [on Murder in a Small Town] in some unspecified time in the future. Michael is a man who likes to maintain himself busy, however he doesn’t love touring for work. He doesn’t like leaving Los Angeles that a lot — and much more particularly his house in Los Angeles,” Kreuk joked. “However he would’ve been nice within the position. The actor that we ended up having in it was unbelievable. However I believe that if persons are prepared to say sure, there are a lot of potentialities of who may come up and play a extremely attention-grabbing character as a result of the visitor star roles on Homicide in a Small City are sometimes probably the most attention-grabbing.”
Sutherland, 46, in the meantime, instructed Us forward of the present’s return on Tuesday, September 23, that he beloved working with Joshua Shut on season 2.
“He was completely great. If this present goes once more, I hope there’s room for him on it,” the actor mentioned. “We’ve been very lucky. Plenty of individuals have come to play.”
Trying forward on the subsequent season, Sutherland praised Homicide in a Small City for hitting “the bottom working as a substitute of organising the panorama.” Kreuk was simply as excited to construct on what season 1 already launched.
“We don’t must introduce as many individuals. So we get to delve into all these character story traces,” she teased. “We see extra about what’s happening in the local people on the subject of the political scenario.”
Homicide in a Small City returns to Fox Tuesday, September 23, at 8 p.m. ET.
