The Official Tom Welling Thread

[jas01724]

Hey, I just noticed that Superman Returns and Batman Begins have something in common: Routh's face and the Batsuit are both "teh puffy"!

(I kid. Like him or not, those pics of Brandon just aren't flattering. He looks bloated. )

 

[AgentPat]

Hey, I just noticed that Superman Returns and Batman Begins have something in common: Routh's face and the Batsuit are both "teh puffy"!

(I kid. Like him or not, those pics of Brandon just aren't flattering. He looks bloated.)

Could be the air brushing for the mag. Could be something else. Neither would surprise me, especially after the lambasting he's been getting about his un-Superman-like physique.

Do I care? Pfft. Nope. He's not my Superman, and never will be.

 

[triplet]

i dont like ED. never did. Kristin has therefore been cast in the movie

But Kristin isn't playing Lois...

I guess if it's not a Supes movie you're casting, what difference does it make really, but it's sorta broken the symmetry of the thing, IMO.

I mean you got two Supes, two Lexes and one Lana and one Lois...

ps. what did u think of the manip?

Anyhoo, great manip...

I've done one or two and they're not easy to do, so

 

[Sioux]

Could be the air brushing for the mag. Could be something else. Neither would surprise me, especially after the lambasting he's been getting about his un-Superman-like physique.

Do I care? Pfft. Nope. He's not my Superman, and never will be.

I agree. I guess Routh is okay, in general, if you like that look. However, some people in the Supes boards says he looks "huge" on the cover. Is it me or does he still look like he needs to hit the gym? I mean he has biceps - but he's certainly not huge, and I'm sorry, but he doesn't have the chest girth that he should have as Superman.

If you take the picture of Tom Welling with Maggie Grace and the one of Brandon Routh on the cover of EW, Welling's bicep is almost the same size as Brandon's unflexed! And if you take the picture of Welling's arm flexed (holding the baby), well . . um . . I think you get the picture.

Like I said, some people love Brandon, and that's all fine and good, he's just not my cup of tea - - or coffee - - or wine -- espresso . . latte . .

 

[Sioux]

Brandon is where he should be - - kneeling at the feet of Tom Welling.

 

[Serene]

Like I said, some people love Brandon, and that's all fine and good, he's just not my cup of tea - - or coffee - - or wine -- espresso . . latte . .

Gotta agree...
Btw, have you seen our fine selection of cheeses? Ardy is the usual purveyor. Perhaps she'll be around shortly to offer some up.

 

[triplet]

You know, with BJ grasping onto what it looks to be Tom's leg that manip is really quite slashy...

Naughty, naughty M.E.H.Z.E.B....

 

[Ardrhielle]

Gotta agree...
Btw, have you seen our fine selection of cheeses? Ardy is the usual purveyor. Perhaps she'll be around shortly to offer some up.

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I've...always....been...partial.......to.....Wensleydale...personally.
But..all....we...can..look...forward...to..is...mass..market...cheddar...with...artificial...coloring...It...just...doesn't...do...it....for...this....cheese...fan.
Wensleydale...is...whey...better...and...always....will...be...imho....Couldn't....resist...the...pun!
Gonna mgo mclean mmy mkeyboard mnow!
I wonder mwhat kind mof mcheese mTom mlikes....I...can't....quite make..sense..of..that.."never...approached"...quote..of..late..like..never.....EVER? ...That's ..in...direct..contradiction...to...his...Ratner...quotes...and...that...Beyonce...thing...isn't....it?....sigh.

anyhoo...now..I'm..really...going...to...clean...my...keyboard! mThis mis mexasperating!

 

[AgentPat]

^^ That post was harder to read than some of TW4S's. LOL ;o)
(guess that was by design, eh Ardy?)

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[Hits keyboard HARD]

Ah! Fixed. Gosh that was annoying. LOL Where were we? How 'bout a random sampling of some perdy pictures off my server?

 

[rumpuso]

I'm not familiar with this picture. What is this from??


THANK YOU Pat!!! I love my daily dose of Tommay! Goes so good with my coffee. Yum!

 

[smsvmos]

I'm not familiar with this picture. What is this from??


THANK YOU Pat!!! I love my daily dose of Tommay! Goes so good with my coffee. Yum!

Cheaper by The Dozen ^^^^^^^

 

[AgentPat]

I'm not familiar with this picture. What is this from??

Yeah, that's from CBtD. Here's another promo from the film with the same shirt...

The first pic came up in conversation recently when I think Serene or Trip was thrown by the smudge on his face that looks like a weird sideburn. Kinda makes him a little hard to recognize. But those big paws give him away...

LOL

 

[Serene]

My favorite from CBTD:

Face, arms, chest, HIPS... Now that's a package to be reckoned with!

 

[mellyM]

My god, he has such a gorgeous profile..ok and a gorgeous everything else. He does love Diesel jeans doesn't he?

 

[Serene]

He does love Diesel jeans doesn't he?

And more importantly.. they love him.

 

[M.E.H.Z.E.B]

Hey, I just noticed that Superman Returns and Batman Begins have something in common: Routh's face and the Batsuit are both "teh puffy"!

hahahahahahahahahhahahahha








that's the smartest comment ive ever read..... that you posted.


keep up the good work

 

[triplet]

Yeah, that's from CBtD. Here's another promo from the film with the same shirt...

The first pic came up in conversation recently when I think Serene or Trip was thrown by the smudge on his face that looks like a weird sideburn. Kinda makes him a little hard to recognize. But those big paws give him away...

Why do people confuse me with Rene? We look nothing alike, you know...

It was me... the smudge did throw me and I've only seen CBTD twice so I didn't recognize the scene.

You're right: can't mistake those paws.... Yummy. I love big hands....

LOL

 

[triplet]

And more importantly.. they love him.

Why, yes. Yes, they do.

 

[Lara]

You know, with BJ grasping onto what it looks to be Tom's leg that manip is really quite slashy...

Naughty, naughty M.E.H.Z.E.B....

Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that.

 

[AgentPat]

HAH!!! OMG, um... err.. okay, for lack of a better place to put this, there's a GREAT interview with John Glover here. But folks may want to read the *entire* interview, especially after reading the excerpts below.... *giggle*

Out in Smallville: Smallville’s John Glover
6/22/05
A man for all seasons: Glover offers inside look at his acting world
By BILL GREEN

...Glover wrapped up production on the fourth season of Smallville in April and it was quite a year for his alter ego, Lionel Luthor, who started out the season going to prison. Glover sacrificed his beautiful, long hair for an emotional introduction into prison life. So, one might assume, the emotion on Glover’s face is real when his head is being shaved in that episode?

“Nah. It was just acting,” Glover says. With a good actor you never can tell. “You never can tell,” he repeats.

“I offered it up. It had gotten so long in the three seasons that I’ve been doing the show. It was a pain in the ass and a bit restrictive so I asked the producers. I offered it up. I said, ‘If you’ll film it, I’ll shave it.’"

Another Lionel Luthor-heavy episode—one he spent two weeks in Vancouver shooting—is “Transference.” In the episode, Luthor switches bodies with Clark Kent. For the actor that meant taking on Tom Welling’s role for much of the episode. “Yeah that was fun. We had a good time with that,” he says, admitting to working closely with Welling to shore up the role.

“I was there on the set for all of his work. And he tried to be there for as much of mine as he could but because he’s got other episodes and things that he’s doing, it was difficult for him. He was so much busier. So he couldn’t be there for all of mine. But I was there for all of his.”

In one scene, where Welling is playing Luthor, he’s checking out his impressive new body and he looks inside his pants to check out the package. Was Glover responsible for that bit of direction?

He laughs.

Because that’s the first thing this writer would do if he found himself in Tom Welling’s body.

“Of course,” Glover offers up willingly. “I think it was in the script, though. I think it was. But Michael [ Rosenbaum ] and I, last year when I had a scene where I was having a massage and Michael came in, we worked out a father/son thing where I stood up and was sort of putting my bathrobe on where he looked down and checked out his dad’s package. That didn’t make it to the final cut.”

It appears he tries to insert himself into the characters a lot and make a lot of suggestions to the producers and writers. “I’m very pushy. Yeah,” Glover says. “The writers, I think they’re smart and they know we’ve been playing those parts now for … this is the fourth year ... we know the characters pretty well.”

WCT: Was it fun for you to play Clark, such a naïve and innocent character?

JG: It was. But what I found, because I play so many kind of neurotic, psychotic characters that the problem I had right at the beginning was I kept doing too much. … Tom plays that hero thing so well and so simply. And it was the simplicity thing I had the most trouble with.”

WCT: There is a question any gay man in his right frame of mind would want to know—as many of my brethren would attest: Do you, John Glover, secretly lust after Tom Welling?

JG: No ... but he’s a terrific guy.

WCT: But unfortunately married?

JG: Or fortunately...​

HAHAHAHA!!! Brilliant!

 

[triplet]

HAH!!! OMG, um... err.. okay, for lack of a better place to put this, there's a GREAT interview with John Glover here. But folks may want to read the *entire* interview, especially after reading the excerpts below.... *giggle*

WCT: There is a question any gay man in his right frame of mind would want to know—as many of my brethren would attest: Do you, John Glover, secretly lust after Tom Welling?




​

JG: No ... but he’s a terrific guy.



WCT: But unfortunately married?

JG: Or fortunately...


​

HAHAHAHA!!! Brilliant!

That's frickin' hilarious!

Love the interview...

 

[mellyM]

That's frickin' hilarious!

Love the interview...

Cool, I didn't know he was an identical twin! Now I like him even more...

He's not an identical twin...is he? I know he played twins in a play and won a tony for it.

 

[newbrando]

I thought it was a little weird that just because John Glover is gay, the writer would ask him that. John handled the question very well though.

 

[triplet]

He's not an identical twin...is he? I know he played twins in a play and won a tony for it.

Oh, I misunderstood... Sorry. I went back and reread it..

He's not a twin. Oh, well.

 

[Serene]

I love this part.

In one scene, where Welling is playing Luthor, he’s checking out his impressive new body and he looks inside his pants to check out the package. Was Glover responsible for that bit of direction?

He laughs.

Because that’s the first thing this writer would do if he found himself in Tom Welling’s body.​

LOL.. I like this writer.

What a great interview.. thanks for posting it, Pat.
You know, I never knew John Glover was gay. I guess I just never thought about it before. My friend who lives in N.Y. went and saw JG in his new play.. She said he was great. I'm trying to talk her into going back to meet him by the stage door to get a picture.