 Creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar were initially trying to find someone for the role of Clark Kent , but Kristin Kreuk was the first to be cast , as Lana Lang . Casting director Coreen Mayrs sent David Nutter , the director of the pilot episode , a tape of sixty @-@ nine people and the second person on the tape was Kreuk . They loved her audition tape so much they immediately showed her to the network . For one of her auditions , she read the graveyard scene with Tom Welling ; the network thought they had " great chemistry " . Jade <unk> and Louise Grant portrayed the character as a child and an elderly woman , respectively . 
