Supernuptials Will Be A Mountaintop Experience
Say it isn’t so. Superman and Lois Lane are getting married this season on ABC. Hey, that’s like tying the knot between Scully and Mulder or pairing Della Street and Perry Mason or hitching Matt Dillon to Miss Kitty or Beavis to Butt-head.
But Teri Hatcher, who plays Lois on “Lois and Clark: the New Adventures of Superman,” says they’ve already shot the episode, which will air Sunday.
“It takes place on a mountaintop.” she says. “Of course, it was actually inside Stage 23. Who knows why they thought this would be a brilliant idea, but they got real sod.
“They shoot us from the waist up, so no one sees the sod. It’s 110 in Burbank and has been the last two months, and rotting sod is really inspiring on your wedding day,” she gulps.
Still, Hatcher, 31, gets to march down the aisle in a luscious tulle gown “like the one Audrey Hepburn wore in ‘Funny Face’ - very princessey.”
Hatcher, who’s been married to actor Jon Tenney for 2 years, says that her real-life wedding dress was not anything like this. When Tenney came to visit her on the set during a fitting, she was so inspired she enthused, “I want to get married all over again.”
Hatcher confesses she’s heard the rumor that this divine union with Superman might result in some Superkids. “And we’ve had some Supersex so far,” she says.
“It’s an odd wedding episode,” she thinks. “I’m not really sure why they chose to do it that way.
‘It’ll be up to the audience (to determine the reasons). I don’t want to load it with any opinion, but it isn’t completely unambiguous.
“I don’t think that was their intention, because I’ve been told they are married. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ They insist this is a real marriage, so that’s what I’m going with.
“But the way we end up on the mountaintop - I think it’s meant to be the most heightened, magical, romantic idea you could create. To me, it makes it a little ambiguous.”
When she was not worrying about her impending nuptials with Mr. Muscles this summer, Hatcher was filming one of the fall’s funniest black comedies, “2 Days in the Valley,” which hit theaters Friday.
A quirky comedy that’s part “Pulp Fiction” and part “Lake Woebegon,” the movie proves that Hatcher is more than a million hits on the Internet.