Tom Cavanagh To Guest Star In 'Superman & Lois' Series Finale
He wasn’t able to direct the episode, but they weren’t going to keep him away just because he missed out on that
DC might be departing The CW with the final season of Superman & Lois this fall, but one of the Arrowverse’s most prominent figures is doing one more goodbye. The Flash’s Tom Cavanagh, who played Harrison Wells and the doppelgängers littered across the multiverse, and the Wells-faced Eobard Thawne, revealed during a panel at Fan Expo Philadelphia this weekend that he will have an on-camera role in the four-season show’s series finale.
Even with the series not taking place on Earth-Prime, Cavanagh has directed two episodes already: the season one finale "Last Sons of Krypton" and season three premiere "Closer", and that’s not an accident. Premieres or finales had become Cavanagh’s preference, and he also fostered a trust with showrunner Todd Helbing that he was great on such stakes, beginning with The Flash’s 100th episode, “What's Past Is Prologue” which certainly carried the same vibes and level of gravitas. Since the season premiere "The End & The Beginning" and more-recently filmed series finale "It Went By So Fast" are being directed by Gregory Smith, Helbing instead suggested he guest star.
As Cavanagh put it “The finale… was taken up already, and so I said, ‘Well, I’m happy to not do it,’ which is when Todd was like ‘Well, would you play a role?’ And so that’s coming up, for those of you that watch… something that I’m happy to have done.”
But who will he play? Superman is the only hero on his Earth. There’s no future Flash for an Eobard Thawne to be jealous of and cause Reverse Flash aspirations. All the Wellses consciousnesses were within Nash Wells, and they sacrificed themselves to power the Artificial Speed Force in the COVID-pushed portion of season 7. When it was disabled, their essences revived the Prime Harrison Wells and he’s doing his thing. But will it cross Earths for some reason? Or is there a non-Wells doppelgänger in the Superman & Lois Earth? That’s for us to find out by watching by year’s end. When the show does return in the fall, it will only star Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent aka Superman, Bitsie Tulloch as Lois Lane, Alex Garfin as Jordan Kent, Michael Bishop as Jonathan Kent and Michael Cudlitz as Lex Luthor, with several if not all of its shed regulars returning in lesser capacities.
Source: KryptonSite