When Kyle Chandler was revealed to be co-leading the upcoming DCU series Lanterns, I was truly shocked, given how relatively few comic book-esque spectacle projects he's aligned himself with in the past. (King Kong and the Godzilla movies are clear exceptions.) But that only made me more excited, since the actor brings down-to-earth gravitas and authority with each and every role. And true to form, he's been quicker to focus on the show's character study in interviews than to talk about magical green constructs and meeting space aliens.
So it's perhaps not an astounding revelation to learn that the Friday Night Lights actor did not spend his childhood pretending to be any Jack Kirby creations or other more fantastical characters. When asked by Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Anthony Anderson what superhero he would have wanted to grow up to be, Chandler first let out an amusing "Good God!" as his first reaction before shedding some (dark knight) light on his earlier years. In his words (via YouTube):
