2001 TV News Archives

John Schneider

October 22, 2001: LA Times Interview John Schneider

The LA Times recently published an excellent interview with John Schneider, who plays Jonathan Kent in "Smallville". Here is a portion of the interview titled "Raising a Hero" and written by Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn...

It didn't seem like the right time to be talking to John Schneider about "Smallville."

It's Sept. 14, and there were more important things on both our minds. Just minutes before arriving at Schneider's sprawling, two-story English Tudor in Agoura Hills, President Bush had closed an early morning memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., with a prayer for those killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three days prior. The country was in mourning.

As it had been for the past several days, the conversation at the Schneider house was similar to that of the rest of the country: the sight of a plane slicing through the second tower in Manhattan, the rescue workers and just everyday folks assisting anyone who needed help in the midst of the disaster. As we talked about family and friends on the East Coast--I knew some among the dead--without warning, standing in the middle of Schneider's living room, I was spilling tears all over the actor's crisp white cotton shirt. "It's OK," he consoles. "We all need to cry right now."

Read the complete interview at the LA Times website.



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