Matt Lanter Interview - DC Showcase: Blue Beetle

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Warner Bros. Animation is inviting audiences to curl up on your couch with a bowl of cereal and reminisce on your childhood for DC Showcase: Blue Beetle. The animated short is developed in the same style of classic '60s superhero cartoons and sees the Ted Kord incarnation of Blue Beetle working with The Question to put a stop to Dr. Spectro's sinister new plan.

Available with Blue Beetle, the newest DC Showcase collection incorporates two other shorts that previously came packaged with DC Animated films - Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! and The Losers - and a brand-new short film called Constantine — The House of Mystery.

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In time for the short's release, Screen Rant spoke with star Matt Lanter to discuss DC Showcase: Blue Beetle, capturing the unique tone of the animated project, why he keeps returning to the superhero genre and more.

Screen Rant: I know that you have a past with superheroes, especially in the DC animated world, but what was it about the Blue Beetle short that really drew your interest?

Matt Lanter: Well, certainly it was the tone. The tone is obviously much different than what we've been seeing recently and I love that nostalgic throwback feel. I think we're in a place now as a kind of geek culture and community that we sort of love that throwback nature and that throwback tone.

I was happy just to play that and kind of revel it and just try to be kind of as bad as we could in a good way and just have fun with it. I grew up watching Batman and Adam West and that performance and how kind of campy and cheesy that is, especially watching it now as an adult understanding how campy it was. Just kind of trying to nail that down was really a good time.

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