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January 20, 2007: Phil Morris - Martian Manhunter - Interview

KryptonSite caught up with Phil Morris, the actor playing the Martian Manhunter on "Smallville" in season 6. Here's a part of that interview...

Q: Is it true that you are a big comic book fan?

A: I am a huge comic book fan. I have 20,000 issues, actually. I've been collecting since I was seven years old, and I have some really original stuff. So, to do Smallville, for me, is more than an honor; it's almost like a rite of passage.

Q: Had you always been a fan of the Martian Manhunter?

A: I'm a fan of all the DC Universe characters, and Martian Manhunter, to me - it's weird to say this - but he's one of the most humane of all the DC Universe characters. Odd that he's from Mars, but he has such a great sense of compassion, such a great sense of humanity. So yeah, I'm a big fan of Martian Manhunter. And I'm a big fan of Carl Lumbly, who voices the Martian Manhunter on the Justice League for Warner Brothers.

Q: You've done voice work on the Justice League animated series as well, is that correct?

A: I play Vandal Savage for them, and I just voiced the new straight-to-video DVD of the Darwyn Cooke graphic novel The New Frontier. So it's great. It's funny, because I did that the week before I went up to Vancouver to do Smallville; so I'm playing opposite [the Martian Manhunter] in the cartoon, and then I am actually him in Smallville. It's very wild.

Read the entire interview at the KryptonSite website.