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July 30, 2002: Show Business Weekly Interviews Michael Rosenbaum

Show Business Weekly have conducted an interview with Michael Rosenbaum who plays Lex Luthor on "Smallville", and who also voices the character The Flash in the animated "Justice League" series. Here's an excerpt from the interview titled "Evil Made Easy: Acting Tips from Television's New Villain" by Christine Boylan...

Q: Can you walk me through a typical day on the set of Smallville, for people who have not done TV acting and want to see what it's like?

A: Let's say it's a seven o'clock call for actors to be on the set. I have to be on the set an hour and a half before everyone else, so if it's an eight-thirty call I have to be on the set early, because they have to shave my head and put makeup on my head, so six o'clock I leave, because I'm always on time, and I drive to the set, and I sit in the makeup trailer, and they bring me breakfast, which is cool, and they shave my head with an electric razor and then with a Mach 3, and I'm going to stop saying Mach 3 if they don't start sending me free razors.

Q: It's a good razor?

A: It is. Triple action. So they shave my head and put makeup on it to even it all out and by the time they're halfway done, we have a blocking, and it's about 8:30. I go on with the director and the other cast members, and we block the scene, and after that I go back and finish up [with makeup]. Then I go to wardrobe, Steve in wardrobe meets me there, sometimes he helps me get dressed, [for instance] if I hate a shirt, he says, 'let's get you another shirt.' Then me and maybe Tom [Welling, who plays Clark Kent] will go over lines a few times together, then walk into the set, and we'll do it once as a run through to make sure the cameras are going in the right directions, and then we'll do it. And we usually have to pound out about six to eight pages a day, so it ranges from good days like 12 hours to bad days, which are around 15 hours. A lucky day is 7 or 8 hours.

Read the complete interview at the Show Business Weekly website.