SPOILER ALERT: The article contains details about Superman & Lois . Tom Cavanagh has made his highly-anticipated return to The CW ‘s extended DC universe after The Flash ended its nine-season run last year. On Monday’s Season 4 episode of Superman & Lois , ‘Sharp Dressed Man’, the actor appears as TV journalist Gordon Godfrey, moderating a live televised debate between Lois Lane ( Elizabeth Tulloch ) and Lex Luthor ( Michael Cudlitz , who also directed the episode).
Co-showrunner Brent Fletcher explained why the role was perfect for Cavanagh. “He’s hilarious and has more energy than a 10-year-old. [The character is] not like him at all, but he can play that guy perfectly,” he told TVLine .
“It was the no-brainer of all time,” added co-showrunner Todd Helbing. Cavanagh’s new DC role comes after he played Harrison Wells and Eobard Thawne in The Flash , as well as other Arrowverse shows Arrow , Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow . Fletcher previously teased in September that Cavanagh would appear on Superman & Lois as “definitely a new character from the DC universe,” telling Entertainment Weekly , “It is not something you’ve seen before.
I wish we could have had this character for 18 seasons. It was fun.” Superman & Lois premiered in 2021 as a spin-off of Supergirl , with the 2019 Arrowverse crossover event ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ serving as a backdoor pilot, but the show has since taken on its own separate continuity.
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