2013 Movie News Archives

April 2, 2013: Clancy Brown on Voicing Lex Luthor

Clancy Brown Newsarama.com spoke with Clancy Brown, best known to Superman fans as the voice of Lex Luthor in many different incarnations, including "Superman: The Animated Series" and the recent "LEGO Batman: The Movie - DC Superheroes Unite". In the interview he discusses his time playing the voice of Lex Luthor, and makes an interesting comparison between Lex and Bruce Wayne...

    Q: Clancy, you've been playing Lex Luthor for so long. Has it almost become second nature to do his voice?

    Clancy Brown: I wouldn't say it's second nature, but it is like a comfortable old chair that I can settle into without a lot of effort. I really like doing Lex, but as they've moved into the direct-to-video approach for Superman and Batman, I haven't done it as much. They've had other guys do it, and some are better than others. So I don't own the character. But I do love doing it.

    When they came to me with Lego Batman, I jumped at it - not only because I love Lex, but also because I love Legos. I have a 10-year-old son, and he loves Legos. And I love the animation company that did it. They do the video games for all the Legos games, from Star Wars to Harry Potter to Pirates of the Caribbean - all those video games. And they're great! They're really good. And they're clever. They have a lot of humor. They have fun with this stuff.

    Unlike Star Wars, where there's limited fun they can make of it, they've created this fun little corner in the Lego DC Universe where they're allowed to take some liberties. Everybody's always reinventing superheroes to suit the medium, and I love that the Legos universe has made it their own. Those guys have talent.

    Q: How do you play Lex? Do you imagine who he is in your mind? And if so, who is he?

    Brown: Yeah, I've always thought of Lex as who Bruce Wayne would really be.

Read the entire interview at Newsarama.com.

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