JOHN DIMAGGIO(FUTURAMA) TALKS TO MTV

MTVgeek recently had a chance to chat up with John DiMaggio(Futurama) as part of his promotion for the new Disney animated series Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja where John plays the character of Hannibal McFist. During the course of the interview, John had a chance to talk about him basically taking ownership of a character or a role:

 I tell him this, and that it’s impossible for me to contemplate anyone else doing the voice of Bender–after a certain point an actor simply owns a role. “Well, I mean thank you. I guess I’ll pat myself on the back a little,” he jokes. “There goes the ego train and I just got on it.” When I ask him if he does feel some kind of ownership over these characters, he does admit that to a certain extent he does if he has a particular point of view to express about Jake or Aquaman or Bender or Hannibal. But again, he credits his collaborators with giving him the room to fill out these roles: “Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters–that’s why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.”

Check out our review of the premier episode of 9th Grade Ninja here and the show premieres Monday, September 17th at 7:00 PM ET/PT on Disney XD.