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October 27, 2006: John Glover Talks About Lionel Luthor

TVGuide.com has published an interview with John Glover, in which he discusses his role as Lionel Luthor and what is in store for the character and his interest in Martha Kent. Here's a portion of the interview...

Q: What episode are you taping now? Has Lionel had a chance yet to make the widow Martha Kent do wicked things?

Glover: Um, that's starting. In what I guess will be the Thanksgiving episode, there is a scene in Martha's kitchen - Lionel has now started coming through the back door�- that's awfully nice.

Q: Which is more likely to happen: he brings out an edge in her, or she mellows him out a bit?

Glover: Right now, both are happening. Because of her, he sees things about life and about other people that he hasn't really looked at before. Their friendship is affecting him, changing him.

Q: Last year, when word got out that John Schneider was leaving, were you and Annette O'Toole (Martha) like, "Here we go, they're starting to kill off us grown-ups"?

Glover: No, we were pretty excited, because when Lionel was blind and Martha was working for him, we started touching on that attraction thing. That was something that both Annette and I were kind of toying with and dropping hints at, and then something happened and it all went away. They never spoke of it again.

Q: Heaven forbid we hint that Martha Kent might be a bit of a harlot!

Glover: [Laughs] Fie, forsooth, Matt! See, that can't happen, and that's the beauty of the challenge. There are�all kinds of clues when Lionel deals with other people that things are not what they seem on the exterior, but for the sake of Martha's integrity as Clark's mother and what she turns out to be in the mythology, everything that happens on the show has to lead up to what is with Superman. You can't make Martha look like she is foolish or a harlot.

Read the complete interview at the TVGuide.com website.