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Smallville character
Lana Lang
Location: Smallville
Creators: Character
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
Developed for Television
Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
First appearance: "Pilot"
Portrayed by: Kristin Kreuk

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[edit] Appearances

[edit] Television

[edit] Lana Lang

Portrayed by Kristin Kreuk, Lana Lang is the girl next door. As Kreuk describes her, she is the "beautiful, popular girl who is really lonely". She has a "hole in her heart", because of the loss of her parents, and feels empathy for everyone. She also feels connected to Clark. [1] In the first season, Lana and Clark’s friendship is just beginning, as she is a popular cheerleader dating the school’s star quarterback (Whitney), and Clark cannot get near her without getting sick from the kryptonite necklace she wears.[2] When her parents are killed in the first meteor shower, Lana is adopted by her Aunt Nell, portrayed by Sarah-Jane Redmond. As the first season progresses, Lana grows closer to Clark as Whitney begins to distance himself because of his father’s medical ailments.[3] After Whitney leaves for the Marines,[4] In season two, Nell moves to Metropolis with her fiancé, allowing Lana to move in with Chloe so that she may finish high school.[5] Lana and Clark slowly try and start a romantic relationship, but fear backlash from Chloe because of her personal feelings for Clark.[6] Just as the two give into their feelings fully, Clark unexpectedly runs away from Smallville.[7] Lana, alongside the Kents, spends the summer searching for Clark before finding him in Metropolis.[8] Clark’s actions in Metropolis force the two to rethink their relationship,[9] and Lana eventually begins a relationship with Adam Knight, a guy she met while in physical therapy after being trampled by a horse.[10][11] The relationship turns out to be a ploy to get closer to Lana, so that Adam can investigate Clark.[12]

In order to move on with her life, Lana applies and is admitted into a program to study abroad.[13] While in Paris, Lana begins a romantic relationship with Jason Teague. She returns to Smallville after receiving a mysterious tattoo on her lower back, which resembles a symbol on the Kawatche cave walls, when she touched the tomb of Countess Margaret Isobel Theroux.[14] The tattoo acts as a doorway for the spirit of Isobel to inhabit Lana’s body; whenever Isobel takes over Lana’s body she sets out to find the three stones of knowledge.[15][16] Lana is confronted by Jason’s mother Genevieve, and during a struggle Isobel comes forward and kills Genevieve; the resulting death of Genevieve, who was revealed to have been cause for Isobel’s death centuries prior,[17] releases Isobel’s control over Lana.[18] During the second meteor shower, Lana witnesses the landing of an alien spacecraft, and two alien beings emerging and killing everyone in sight.[19] The spaceship becomes Lana’s primary focus in season five, teaming up with Lex to discover the mystery behind the ship.[20] When her relationship with Clark hits a breaking point,[21] she begins to grow closer to Lex.[22]

The relationship with Lex eventually leads to marriage, but not before Lana discovers Clark’s secret and realizes why he has been lying to her all these years.[23] When she learns that Lex set up a fake pregnancy in order to get her to marry him, Lana effectively ends the marriage and fakes her own death in order to pin the murder on Lex.[24] The effort fails, but as part of the “settlement” of their divorce, Lex makes sure that Lana does not go to jail for her actions.[25] With Clark’s secret no longer an issue, the two begin a real relationship.[26] Lana’s obsession with making Lex pay for all his crimes against humanity begins to affect her relationship with Clark.[27] Eventually, Lana realizes that, even though she loves him, the only way for Clark to help the world to the best of his ability would be if she left Clark and Smallville for good.[28]

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[edit] Casting

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar were initially trying to find someone for the role of Clark Kent, but Kristin Kreuk was the first to be cast, as Lana Lang. Casting director Coreen Mayrs sent David Nutter, the director of the pilot episode, a tape of 69 people and the second person on the tape was Kristin Kreuk.[29] They loved her audition tape so much they immediately showed her to the network.[30] For one of hed auditions, she read the graveyard scene with Tom Welling; the network thought they had "great chemistry".[30]

[edit] Character development

  • At the time she was cast as Lana, Kreuk had no idea who the character was in Superman lore. Her uncle, who owned a comic book shop, filled her in on the details and she learned more from the producers. Kreuk realized that the character in the comics and her character on the show were TW1o different people. So Kreuk is about to learn alongside her character, just as Welling does with Clark Kent.[31]
  • Kreuk describes her character as “this beautiful, popular girl [with] this big hole in her heart because her parents died when she was young”. Kreuk classifies her as strong, intelligent, and “empathetic to everyone, especially to Clark because she felt a connection to him, particularly in the graveyard scene”.[31]
  • Kreuk believes that Lana truly was in love with Whitney when they first started dating, but by the time the audience first sees her in the pilot she is no longer in that same state of mind. Kreuk believes that by the time of the pilot Lana had grown “comfortable” with Whitney, and that was where their relationship ended.
  • According to Kreuk, the character was never placed in situations where she could show her outgoing side, because she was left to communicate primarily with Whitney and Clark. Kreuk thinks that Lana "lived in her head a little bit"; she was intelligent enough to read classical books, but would also read romantic novels "on the sly".[31]
  • The turning point for the character for season one came in "X-Ray", when Lana discovers information about her parents that changes her perspective on them. It began with her mother’s graduation speech, which showed that her mother was not as happy as her aunt had led her to believe. Her perception of her mother drove the way she led her own life, which was based on the idea of everyone perceiving her in a good light.[31]
  • Kristin feels that deep down the character is a "tough girl", and that Lex manages to bring that side of her out more. For instance, he convinces her to fight back against a rival coffee shop that is spreading rumors about The Talon – the coffee shop that she joint owns with Lex.[31]

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  1. ^ Simpson, Paul, (Season 1 Companion), pp.116–119
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  11. ^ "Shattered". Kenneth Biller (writer & director). Smallville. The WB. 2003-11-19. No. 8, season 3.
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  31. ^ a b c d e Simpson, Paul, (Season 1 Companion), pp.116-119

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