"This Just Feels Like A S----y Way To Basically Get Fired": Smallville Star Addresses Controversial Jimmy Olsen Death 16 Years Later

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This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Smallville actor Aaron Ashmore looks back on the shocking death of his DC character on The CW TV show.
On the latest episode of Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, the Lex Luthor actor was joined by one of his former co-stars, with Ashmore"s ending on Smallville being one of the topics discussed. When he was asked about Smallville not only killed his character off but how he had to learn that he wasn"t actually playing Jimmy Olsen, Ashmore stated the following:

Aaron Ashmore: I don"t know... Literally, what they told me, was that because this wasn"t the actual Superman timeline, this canon that we all know, it"s slightly different. "You can"t be Jimmy Olsen because it"s too young. Clark needs to be older," all this sort of stuff. So at first, I was bummed, because I"ve been doing all these interviews for three years. People [went like,] "Hey, you are part of the canon, you are [one of the] lucky people to play this Jimmy Olsen role," and I was like, "Yeah, this is great!" Then all of a sudden, I don"t even get to freaking be Jimmy Olsen! I"ve been lying to people, I"ve been telling them this for years!
I was disappointed, I didn"t like how they did it, because it just felt a bit of a cop-out. They didn"t tell me till the very end of the season too. They could have told me at the beginning of the season, "Hey, this is what"s happening." I don"t think it was a surprise, I don"t think they came up with this out of nowhere. I think they knew that this was going to be the thing, but they told me the episode before, so this just feels like a s----y way to basically get fired, is through this bizarre, "Well...you are not really the [Jimmy Olsen.]" I was like, "Okay...like what am I going to do?" But yeah, I was definitely a little disappointed.

Source: Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum/YouTube
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