Smallville‘s Kristen Kreuk is stepping into the shoes of Linda Hamilton.
Kreuk has been cast as Catherine in the CW’s reboot of Beauty and the Beast. According to Deadline, Catherine is “a tough-minded NYPD homicide detective haunted by witnessing her mother’s murder nine years ago and the killers’ quick demise at the hands of a Beast. After years of searching, Catherine finally finds the Beast, Vincent Koslow, the survivor of a military experiment that went disastrously wrong, and becomes the protector of his secret life as a superhero.”