Hey Porter! Friday Night Lights' Scott on Becoming X-Men Anime

The longtime comic fan is beaming to be Cyclops.

We've always kept one eye on Scott Porter, but now we're afraid he might shoot a similar gaze right back, as the actor's latest role is that of laser-blasting leader Cyclops on G4's new X-Men anime. We talked to Porter and he seems nice...so far.

GCD: The first scenes of the X-Men anime are pretty traumatic for your character.

SP: Luckily, with my film experience I have played some dramatic situations and I was able to pull from that a little bit...it broke my fever right away as opposed to keeping my nerves up for the entirety of these first couple of episodes. Trial by fire, you're in it...the nervousness drained out of me. The tightness in my voice went away.

GCD: You have a reputation for being a big comic book guy. Did that add some weight to what you were performing?

SP: [When] you've seen Cyclops lose Jean a couple of times...you've seen just how fractured he becomes when these things happen to him. I had a pretty solid understanding of where he was emotionally and what he has invested, which was everything, in her.

GCD: Did you coach Taylor Kitsch on getting the role of Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine?

SP: Before he went to test, he called me and just asked me a bunch of questions about Gambit. "What's his real origin? Where did he come from? I'm going in for my screen test for the new Wolverine movie. What character is this?" ...I was the go-to nerd on the set of Friday Night Lights.

Peep our full interview with Scott Porter, and open your ears for his voice in X-Men Anime, which premieres tomorrow night on G4 at 11pm.

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