Before he became a CW staple as "Supernatural‘s" Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles nearly scored another iconic role at the network: "Smallville‘s" Clark Kent.

“It got pretty close, and actually came down to Tom [Welling] and me,” Ackles revealed in 2004. “We had to go back a couple of times to the network and they ultimately went with Tom, which I thought made sense because he looks more the part than I do… I’d say they made the right choice.”

"Smallville" later found a part for Ackles, casting him as villain Jason Teague in Season 4.



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During a podcast interview with Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor during the drama’s run, Zachary Levi shared that he also tested for Lex and “really thought I was going to get that job.”

But he went on to say that Rosenbaum was “fantastic” in the role, adding: “It wasn’t my path” to play the villainous character — though it was his path to play Chuck Bartowski, a role he held while "Smallville" was still on the air.

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