We chat with SupermanAndLois star Wolé Parks about getting to do more in and out of his Steel suit, the intensity of John Henry Irons' arc in season 3, and whether he can see himself branching out to other Johns in the DCU:
Superman & Lois star Wolé Parks, who portrays John Henry Irons, in the Arrowverse drama, previews his arc as the superhero Steel in season 3. While the Arrowverse line-up is looking a lot lighter this year, The CW still has a few DC dramas returning for new episodes. One of them is Superman & Lois, which has been on a massive hiatus since the summer of 2022.
You've been on the show for three years now. How has it been working on Superman & Lois and getting deeper into the DC-ness of it all? Wolé Parks: Andy, that's a great question. I would love to say that he's going to have a lot more fun. Here's the reason why: at the end of season 2, we found that Bruno Mannheim killed the John Henry on this Earth. Obviously, we're going to have a lot of confrontation with that. [There will be] a lot of digging up the past.
Of course, it is a superhero show, so we're going to get into conflict. It's just funny because I will say there were times when I'm doing these fights, and I'm like, "He's not Superman. He's just a man who has a suit." He's really smart, but when he's not in the suit, he's getting beaten up in all these ways.
Whereas in this one, it's interesting because Bruno's so intense. This is a guy who's running an empire and doing really very well at it. You don't get to that level if you don't take some risk and crack some skulls, basically. There's going to be a lot of fireworks between them, and a lot of history. I think what's going to be interesting is that Bruno knows John, but this John doesn't know Bruno.
Some of it I make up in my own mind and, to be honest, some of it changes as time goes by. This is just the nature of TV: you have an idea maybe one day, and then two years later, you're like, "But what if it's this?" Because that has more depth that could play more interestingly. It's been fascinating to delve into that and try to not have my version of John impede on whatever life or mistakes this John made, and find a way to navigate those worlds.
You're talking about being a comic book fan yourself. Do you go and dive into Steel's history in DC and go, "I wish we could do that on the show!" I have to ask, as a comic book fan myself, are we getting any closer to Steel finally getting his own cape? That suit is cool, but we need to complete it with a good cape. The suit in general looks heavy, but also so cool at the same time. Has it gotten easier over the last couple of years as you work in it, including stunts?
Wolé Parks: That is so cool you say that because when I read it, I was like, "Oh, this is really cool." But then actually shooting it, what was interesting about that was that I had to physically run through all that and jump onto a platform, then jump off of the platform. That's how we did that. But then we had to do the same thing and replicate it in the green screen back at the studios, [which is] a whole process.
Especially someone like her who's gone through so much trauma; both of them saw their Lois die, his wife and her mother in that world. They went through that whole battle between the evil Superman of that world. It's for her to find herself and be like, "I'm not a child anymore. I've been through too much." That was a really interesting arc, and I'm really glad that we got to do that.
Wolé Parks: 100%! I think it'd be cool. It's interesting to see because, again, going back to comics... Did you ever watch Justice League and Justice League Unlimited? Wolé Parks: Yes! Yes, I was gooing to say that I would love a Justice Lord thing [on Superman & Lois]. They came sort of out of nowhere. I remember that episode where it was a Doomsday fight, and Superman just lobotomized him! We have the Evil Superman already, so maybe that happens.
I'm sure fans would murder me if I didn't ask this. Have you guys heard anything about a potential season four for you guys? Wolé Parks: Your lips to God's ears! We're going to assume we're going to come back. We're going to hope for that and assume there's going to be another season. I don't know. That's not me trying to throw you off; I truly don't know.
Wolé Parks: I would love that. Here's the funny thing when I think about Shaq - Shaq is so big and legendary that at this point, I think he would just do it for the fun of it. Like, can we afford Shaq? No! [laughs] But Shaq can probably do it for free just to be like, 'Hey, man, what's up?' Like, this would be a weird cameo [when] I see how huge he is and that would be hilarious.
Do you and Diggle finally get to do more things this season? Because every season, he's there for less than five minutes!
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