"Smallville" alumni actress Erica Durance is set to guest star on the NBC series "Harry’s Law" as a psychologically infirm woman who retreats into the persona of Wonder Woman to help wreak revenge on perpetrators of domestic abuse.

After taking on the role of Lois Lane for seven years on Smallville, TV Guide had an opportunity to speak with Durance about taking on the role of another iconic DC Comics character. Here's an excerpt:

TV Guide: How does it feel actually getting to play Wonder Woman... of sorts?
Durance: "Of sorts" is the best way to put it and it's probably the best way to play it because you get to have a little bit of freedom and you're not judged quite so harshly. The way that I was able to work with the character Wonder Woman in this is through the eyes of a woman who desperately needed a strong female archetype to look up to, and she had gone through such terrible things and this was her alter ego. I would challenge anybody who said that she didn't think she was Wonder Woman. This is how she found her way out.

So, as an actress, getting to put on the suit and play Wonder Woman was fantastic and then I got this whole other layer because of the way David E. Kelley had written it, to ground it in this kind of humanistic viewpoint, which was lovely.

TV Guide: You had put on the "Amazon Princess" costume on Smallville. How does it feel getting to put on the real thing?
Durance: A little daunting, and partially because having been in the comic world for a while now, I'm really very respectful of the people that love this character. I do take it very seriously. As a side note, just to be light about it, any woman wearing tight pants is not super excited the first time she puts them on. [Laughs] I wasn't exactly, you know, tight pants- or underwear-ready.

Read the complete interview at TVGuide.com.

Durance's episode of "Harry's Law" is scheduled to air Wednesday, January 11 at 9/8c on NBC.