Property Brother Drew Scott portrayed a, dare we say, cheeky side of Superman on the hit superhero series “Smallville.”
“I was the body double for Tom Welling,” Scott revealed to People when discussing his pre-HGTV time in the acting world. “So when they’re doing like butt shots and ab shots, I was the one they were using.”
Tom Welling played a teenage Clark Kent on “Smallville” – which aired from 2001 to 2006 on the WB, and then until 2011 on the CW — making Scott’s body-double role vital on certain occasions when Superman showed some skin. Scott was initially brought onto the show through a friend who was Lex Luther’s stand-in at the time. Looking back, Scott told People, “It was great. It was a little side thing.” On “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” Scott explained that he was one of many doubles the show’s coordinators used “depending on the shot they wanted, but Tom Welling was much sexier than I was.”
How Smallville affected Drew Scott’s career
“Smallville” wasn’t the only role Drew Scott had early in his acting career that involved showing off his body. In the memoir “It Takes Two: Our Story,” Scott revealed that he did a nude scene for a zombie movie he’s not particularly proud of. “My bare a** made its screen debut right in the middle of this terrible film,” he wrote (via Fox News).
Scott’s time on “Smallville” led to him meeting Justin Hartley, one of the celebrities featured on the reality show “Celebrity IOU.” On the HGTV home makeover show, celebrities can surprise someone who changed their lives for the better with stellar renovations, with the help of the Property Brothers. “Something a lot of people don’t know is I have actually known Justin for years,” Scott explained to People in the lead-up to the episode. “Back then he was Green Arrow, I think. Maybe Justin and I bonded over our superhero days.”
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