Degrassi actress Stacey Farber has been cast in The CW’s Superman & Lois. Degrassi: The Next Generation fans will remember Farber as Ellie Nash on the Canadian teen drama series from seasons 2 through 8. She also played Sydney Katz on the medical drama series Saving Hope and appeared in season 4 of Schitt’s Creek as Patrick’s former fiancé Rachel.
The latest addition to the Arroverse, the upcoming series will star Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane and Tyler Hoechlin as Superman/Clark Kent. Both Tulloch and Hoechlin are reprising their roles from multiple Arroverse shows. The series will focus on Lois and Clark raising their two teenage sons, Jonathan (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan (Alexander Garfin), in the town of Smallville while exploring the new Post-Crisis Multiverse. While production was suspended back in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, filming picked back up again this week and the show is scheduled to premiere in January 2021.
According to The Wrap, Farber will play Leslie Larr in a recurring role in Superman & Lois. The character is described as “the right hand to one of the most influential people on the planet, she’s gone from a young, idealistic dreamer to a hardened, world-worn dream killer. Athletic, strong… and oftentimes heartless.”
While Leslie Larr is technically not a character in the DC comics, it seems pretty likely that she could be based on the almost identically named Lesla-Lar, an enemy of Supergirl. Lesla-Lar was created by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel in 1961 and first appeared in Supergirl’s Secret Enemy! She was a Kryptonian scientist living in the bottle city of Kandor. Jealous of Supergirl’s fame, she took her powers, kidnapped her, and switched places with her, intending to take over Earth. Her schemes led her to team up with Lex Luthor, and she tricked people into believing she was Supergirl before eventually being caught and sent back to Kandor. She returned in the 1963 issue of Action Comics, when she broke out of jail before being killed by the Phantom Zoners. She made several appearances as a ghost, still trying to take over Supergirl’s identity, before Supergirl finally got rid of her for good in 1981’s Superman Family.
While the description for Farber’s Leslie is being kept pretty vague, one could guess that “one of the most influential people on the planet” could be Lex Luthor. The character has appeared in the Arrowverse in the past (played by Jon Cryer), most recently in the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover TV event. Previous reports have hinted that Lex Luthor from a parallel Earth will be featured in Superman & Lois. Fans will find out in 2021 if Leslie is connected to Lesla-Lar and what that could mean for the titular heroes.
Source: The Wrap
Originally from https://screenrant.com/superman-lois-casts-stacey-farber-leslie-larr/