"Genevieve had something on Lex and Lionel, and that whole family. What (lid I make of her? I think she was very seductive. She used her feminine wiles to manipulate - and I think that's about it. I'd hate to say I know who Genevieve was more than that, because I got the scripts and I tried to make something interesting out of it. I tried to make something interesting out of my relationship with Lana Lang when I did the first episode I was in, but the producers know better than me what they're trying to do with her. I'm just trying to make the scenes credible and interesting, so that the producers can go in whatever direction they want to go with the character."

Jane pauses to consider carefully when asked if there had been any revelations in the scripts that would have made her play the part clifierently had she been privy to that information earlier. "I don't really know," she says eventually. I'm trying to think "I'm trying to think what I would have played differently - but I tried to play things in such a way that she was so arbitrary anyway. You don't really know whether she was telling the truth or not, whether she was manipulating or not, or whether she was good or bad. People who are innately evil normally have very good reasons for their actions - and they don't believe that they are evil at all. They just believe that they are expeditious, doing what has to be done. When I played Kate Ames in [the mini series East of Eden, that was very much the way that that character was. In her world, everything she did was rational; killing her parents was absolutely a rational thing to do!"

Jane has enjoyed working with both the Luthors. "I did a big scene with John Glover," she says. "We had the best time doing it. And everyone is telling me that my scenes with Lex are really hot. People who watch Smalhille all the time are saying that they love seeing me and Lex together, and that we really heat up the screen. I thought there might be more of those, but in Ageless, I do get two scenes with Lionel."

The majority of Jane's scenes on Smallville had been in the ongoing dramatic arc of the show rather then in the more special effects driver areas that changed from week to week. "I'm not in the science fiction part," she says firmly. "I'm more in the drama part." Which has meant that she wasn't as heavily involved in the green screen process and the other more timeconsuming elements of production, so shooting Smallville was more like filming a regular series.

"I did some special effects at the beginning," she points out. "with the Lana Lang stuff when I was back in medieval times (during Lana's hallucinations when she fist meets Genevieve), legends, but then I just came and did regular material. I've done all kinds of genres, but I think that this is good. It's a little crazy because I don't usually know what I'm going to be saying until the last minute, but it's been a lot of fun. Its certainly got a great following."

Originally, Jane was only asked to appear in five episodes, but that was extended to seven during filming.

"I did the final two back-to-back," she says. "It was a question of when I was available. They've been quite clever getting me up there to do two at once."

The producers did tell Jane "what happens at the end, but they did tell me not to tell anybody," she points out.