Fan Casting Ben Hubbard in Michael Dougherty's The Man of Steel

The Kent family’s elderly neighbor in Smallville, Ben Hubbard appears only at Clark’s funeral wake. He comforts Martha Kent, offering to refresh her drink, and embraces her as Lois and her family leave. Ben represents the quiet, enduring community of Smallville—people who knew Clark as a boy and mourn him as a man. Returning from Superman Returns. His single scene provides continuity and warmth and grounds the film’s grief in authentic, small-town humanity, far from the spectacle of Metropolis and providing continuity and warmth.