JamesG
07-14-2017, 09:25 PM
“I couldn’t believe that I booked the part,” laughs Aaron Ashmore of his role as Jimmy Olsen, who worked alongside Clark Kent (Tom Wellington) and Lois Lane (Erica Durance) as a photojournalist at the Daily Planet, where he the first person to get a photo of ‘The Blur’ (Clark’s superhero moniker at the time).
Jimmy also married and divorced Clark’s best friend Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack). He would later die on the series, but not before learning Clark’s secret and telling his ex-wife he would always love her.
A few seasons before Aaron Ashmore picked up Jimmy’s iconic camera on The WB show, his twin brother Shawn had actually starred on the show as Eric Summers, a villainous metahuman student whom Clark went up against in two different episodes.
“Shawn’s character interacted with Clark so much,” Ashmore says. “I almost didn’t audition for it because I thought ‘There’s no way that they’re going to hire the twin brother of a guy who was heavily featured on the show.’”
Luckily, he went to the audition.
“There was this huge aspect of Jimmy’s personality that was very insecure and and constantly worried about Chloe loving Clark that felt a bit soap-ish in a way that I wasn’t crazy about,” Ashmore admits.
“But I really liked the interactions with Clark and how interested Jimmy was in Superman and tracking him down. They definitely had a lot of great moments where he was putting the pieces together that Clark is Superman, which felt very iconic to me.”
Unfortunately, Jimmy’s time on the show ended when Doomsday killed his character in season 8.
“I think it worked,” says the actor. “Of course I was bummed because I really liked playing that character, but the death was awesome. He got to be a hero at the end of the day, and he never really got to be a hero on the show, so saving Chloe from Doomsday was a good way to go out.”
Souvenir from the Set:
“Jimmy wore these bowling shirts. There was red one and a brown one, and I have those tucked away somewhere.”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/14/killjoys-aaron-ashmore-interview/
Jimmy also married and divorced Clark’s best friend Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack). He would later die on the series, but not before learning Clark’s secret and telling his ex-wife he would always love her.
A few seasons before Aaron Ashmore picked up Jimmy’s iconic camera on The WB show, his twin brother Shawn had actually starred on the show as Eric Summers, a villainous metahuman student whom Clark went up against in two different episodes.
“Shawn’s character interacted with Clark so much,” Ashmore says. “I almost didn’t audition for it because I thought ‘There’s no way that they’re going to hire the twin brother of a guy who was heavily featured on the show.’”
Luckily, he went to the audition.
“There was this huge aspect of Jimmy’s personality that was very insecure and and constantly worried about Chloe loving Clark that felt a bit soap-ish in a way that I wasn’t crazy about,” Ashmore admits.
“But I really liked the interactions with Clark and how interested Jimmy was in Superman and tracking him down. They definitely had a lot of great moments where he was putting the pieces together that Clark is Superman, which felt very iconic to me.”
Unfortunately, Jimmy’s time on the show ended when Doomsday killed his character in season 8.
“I think it worked,” says the actor. “Of course I was bummed because I really liked playing that character, but the death was awesome. He got to be a hero at the end of the day, and he never really got to be a hero on the show, so saving Chloe from Doomsday was a good way to go out.”
Souvenir from the Set:
“Jimmy wore these bowling shirts. There was red one and a brown one, and I have those tucked away somewhere.”
http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/14/killjoys-aaron-ashmore-interview/