We talked to HarryShumJr about his role in LegionOfSuperHeroes and what attracts him to franchises like DC and GreysAnatomy
Somewhere in between appearing in the Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once and landing a gig on primetime staple Grey's Anatomy, actor Harry Shum, Jr. found time to provide the voice of Brainiac 5 in Legion of Super-Heroes, a DC Universe animated feature film that hits Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD today. In the movie, Supergirl is feeling traumatized by the loss of her homeworld and profoundly out of place in a world of superheroes where she is operating on a steep learning curve.
One of the first people she encounters is Brainiac 5, whom she immediately does not trust, because of his family's legacy of evil. Much of the movie's conflict centers around whether she can trust him when a mysterious army of masked villains tries to loot a powerful weapon from the Legion's vault. Shum, who previously appeared in Shadowhunters and Glee, is no stranger to taking on roles with a passionate audience who have high expectations.
"It's a balancing act to honor what people loved about the show or the novel or something you're adapting, or these characters that they've lived with longer than you have," Shum told ComicBook.com."I think I always approach it, at the core, by trying to figure out what has defined them, and then also strip that away so that I can see the core humanity of those characters, and then strip that away.
Shum said that his love of comics, and Brainiac 5's sense of isolation, both contributed to his wanting to tackle the job. This means he has provided animated voices for big, spacebound franchises set in the future twice recently, since he also popped up in Star Trek: Lower Decks. "I think there is a loner aspect of him, which I thought was really interesting, especially when you're talking about family as a theme," Shum said."There's this connection that you always want to have between people, and to pass down to the generation after, but I think there's this loneliness, and reading the script, I saw Brainiac 5, and I identified with that in a lot of ways. Growing up as a kid, I was a very lonely kid.
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