Dean Cain finally reveals if Teri Hatcher was difficult on ‘Lois & Clark' set: ‘I just wanted to finish and go home'

New York Post

07-05-2025

It's a bird, it's a plane. It's rumors about Teri Hatcher.
During an appearance on the 'Inside of You' podcast released on Tuesday, Dean Cain, 58, weighed in on the rumors that former 'Desperate Housewives' star Teri Hatcher, 60, is difficult to work with.
Cain and Hatcher starred on 'Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' together, which ran from 1993 to 1997.
'Sometimes [it was] the greatest thing in the world and sometimes a lot more difficult,' Cain said.
9 Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain attend Piaget & Vanity Fair Celebrate The Publication Of 'Burnt Toast' at Aqua Lounge on May 2, 2006 in Beverly Hills, CA.
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9 Teri Hatcher (Lois), Dean Cain (Superman/Clark Kent) in 1994.
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He added, 'There were times where we had great chemistry. There were times where it was just the easiest thing in the world. I'm a team guy. I'm real simple. Plug me in and let's go. I'm here to get this done as fast as we can.'
Cain explained, 'But also, it seemed like I just wanted to finish and go home. I almost feel like she didn't. There were times where I felt like, 'I don't think she wants to go home because she's worried about this one little thing that has nothing to do with what we're doing. And that's slowing us down for two and a half hours. Like, I don't understand.''
9 Dean Cain as Clark Kent, Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, 1993-1997.
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The former 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' host recalled, 'Her makeup people couldn't touch anybody else [while] I'm in the trailer with everybody there. I didn't care. There wasn't a thing for me.'
However, he also admitted that Hatcher 'carried the show.'
'I just got to react off her. It worked wonderfully. It was a great pairing. I still think — no offense to anybody else's Lois Lane — but I still think she's the best Lois Lane of all time.'
9 Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain in 'Lois and Clark.'
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He said the two former co-stars are still in touch.
'We're still very friendly. We didn't have a big [falling out]. There was no like, 'I'm not talking to her.''
Cain admitted that there 'was a time she wasn't talking to me for a short time. But I'm an athlete, man. If there's guys on my football team, we're going to hash it out so that we can still play ball together.'
Hatcher was the subject of feud rumors with her 'Desperate Housewives' co-stars Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria while they starred on the show, which ran for eight seasons, from 2004 to 2012.
9 Dean Cain poses for a portrait during the 27th Annual FAMILY FILM AND TV AWARDS airing November 9th, 2024.
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9 Teri Hatcher attends the 'SNL50: The Homecoming Concert' at Radio City Music Hall on February 14, 2025 in New York City.
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'The writers weren't barred from the set, but we weren't exactly welcome,' Patty Lin, who worked on Season 1 of the hit ABC show, claimed in her book, 'End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood.'
She added, 'Usually we'd only see the cast at table reads, where we'd sit quietly in the back and try not to make eye contact with Teri Hatcher.'
When the cast did a 'Vanity Fair' cover shoot in 2005, Cross and Longoria reportedly threatened to walk off the set if they had to pose with Hatcher in the middle.
9 Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher during 1993 Emmy Awards – Press Room in Los Angeles, CA.
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When the series ended in 2012, Longoria, Huffman and fellow cast members also allegedly excluded Hatcher's signature from the thank you card they wrote for the crew.
On a 2018 appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' the talk show host asked Longoria if she was friends with 'all' of her former co-stars.
'Felicity Huffman and Marcia are going to be at my star ceremony. Felicity is giving a speech,' Longoria said, referring to the ceremony for the reveal of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
9 Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher during Teri Hatcher Party for Her Book 'Burnt Toast' in 2006.
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She said she was 'very good friends' with her co-stars.
'All of you?' Kimmel asked.
'No!' Longoria confessed. 'But 99 percent of us are.'
9 Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain speak onstage at the 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' 25th Anniversary Reunion panel during New York Comic Con 2018 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 5, 2018 in New York City.
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In 2019, the show's creator, Marc Cherry, wrote a character letter in support of Huffman, who was awaiting sentencing for the college admissions scandal at the time, claiming she was polite to a 'big star' who displayed 'big behavioral problems' on the 'Desperate Housewives' set.
'Everyone tried their darndest to get along with this woman over the course of the show. It was impossible,' he wrote without naming the actress.
'And things went from bad to worse. Felicity still insisted on saying, 'Good morning' to this actress, even though she knew she wouldn't get a response. I found out about this and asked Felicity about it.'
In a 2023 interview on the 'Armchair Expert' podcast with Dax Shepard, Longoria claimed that the feud allegations were just a 'narrative.'
'People ask me that a lot. 'Were you guys really fighting?'' she told Shepard. 'And I was like, 'God, I forgot that was a thing.' It was a thing. It was a big thing.'