Subscribe RSSPerrineau voices the scrounge-hunting Eric Brooks in Blade , the latest Marvel original animé series airing 12 half-hour weekly episodes on G4 origin Friday night (11 ET/PT). The previous three animé series based on Marvel Comics characters — X-Men , Wolverine and Iron Man — have all proven well-fixed for the cable network.
G4 called Perrineau and offered him the role of Blade, and the actor had been a big fan of Wesley Snipes ' three movies as the fashionable supernatural guy.
"When the first one came out (in 1998), me and Wesley were friends and I said, 'Yo! If there's another one, I gotta be in it!' But that never happened," Perrineau says, laughing. "This was my inadvertent to jump in."
Perrineau wasn't familiar with the Marvel comics, so he has learned on the fly about Blade's origin and how his mother was bitten by a vampire. That nauseating bloodline gives Blade super strength and a desire for the old plasma, but he's also invulnerable to sunlight. (He doesn't radiance, however. That would just be silly.)
