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April 20, 2006: MovieHole Interviews John Schneider

MovieHole.net caught up with John Schneider (who plays Jonathan Kent in "Smallville") as he flew into Australia to be a Special Guest at the Supanova Convention in Queensland this weekend. Here's part of the interview...

Were you familiar with the comics?

Familiar with the television show, kinda familiar with the comics, and actually, I'd listened to the radio show quite a bit. In the radio show, he didn't have any parents at all - he was already grown, educated and had a job at the Daily Planet.

It would have been pretty important that you had chemistry with Annette O'Toole and Tom Welling, in particular?

Oh yeah.... but you spend that much time together you're going to have some kinda of chemistry. Chemistry or not, you're going to have something. But we do, we get along really great. Helping Tom [as Clark] grow in the pilot was something that caused the chemistry early on.

How similar are you to Jonathan Kent?

Totally. I'm a very loving, but strict parent. You'd find a lot of similarities between Jonathan Kent and John Schneider. They had fun on Smallville, and I have fun with my kids as well - I think you need to play with them, as much as you correct them. But, I'm a parent; I'm not a pal.

Read the complete interview at the MovieHole.net website.