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May 22, 2002: Sam Jones Talks “Smallville”

Sam Jones III, who plays Pete Ross on "Smallville" recently sat down with the guys at Comics Continuum to talk about his role on the hit TV show. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

Q: Have you been able to gauge reaction on the Internet?

A: At the beginning I was nervous because I would read the Internet and the hardcore Superman fans were like, "Pete Ross is supposed to be white," from like some places in the United States where they still might be kind of racist and they were saying he had to be white and this, that and the other. At first, it made me kind of sad, but up here I just kind of came to work and I didn't get involved in that. It was never about the acting. It was never about the character. It was about why wasn't he white. They didn't care if Denzel Washington and Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr. were playing Pete Ross. They just wanted him to be white.

But then as the show progressed, you see the change, you see the evolution to where people really like the character. Everyone likes my character, it seems, and the girls think I'm quirky and cool and cute. That seems to be the general consensus: everyone thinks I'm cute and nice.

I like him because he's just a nice, fun guy. The guys that I see on the street, they're always cool to me, and everybody seems to like my character. Everybody seems to like all the characters. At first, I thought all the guys were going to like Lana and all the girls were going to like Clark, but some of the girls like me, a lot of the girls think Lex is so sexy and a lot of the guys like Chloe. It's really cool that our show is going good and we've got a tight bond in our cast.

Read the complete interview at the Comics Continuum website.