After nearly two decades voicing Lex Luthor, are there any challenges to creating this character?
Clancy Brown: I’m pretty comfortable doing the voice of Lex, so the only challenges come from the script – and the Superman/Batman: Public Enemies script is tremendous. I think it suits everybody involved. It suits Kevin (Conroy). It suits Tim (Daly). It suits me and the voice characterizations that we created, you know, back right before the Civil War. I think that was when we started doing this. So there’s not really much challenge to it anymore – it’s just a lot of fun now, and especially when you get to do it with Kevin and Tim and Andrea (Romano) and Bruce (Timm). Can you remember your initial audition for the role of Lex Luthor? Clancy Brown: Warner Bros. had been doing Batman and it was very successful, so they were gearing up this new iteration of Superman. They decided to sort of go outside the box as far as talent was concerned, and I had made it known that I wanted to do more voice work. I wasn’t very good at it, but I wanted to get better. I enjoy cartoons and animation, an
