Holding Up Mirrors with J. P. Karliack, ‘X-Men ’97’s Morph

Holding Up Mirrors with J. P. Karliack, ‘X-Men ’97’s Morph This transcript has been slightly modified from the original recording. BlackNerdProblems: Hello, my name is Mikkel Snyder. I’m BNP’s Filipino-American correspondent, and today I am talking with J.P. Karliack, who is currently voicing Morph on the critical darling that is X-Men ’97, but you may have heard his voice on the Netflix dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion as Kuzo Fuyutsuki, or as the Joker in Suicide Squad, Kill the Justice League, or one of a dozen other projects. So how are you doing today, J.P.? J. P. Karliack: I’m good. How are you? BNP: I’m fine. It is hot, it is rainy, and we live in a capitalist hellscape, so, you know, usual things. Very excited to be talking to you today, though, excited about your course of work, and talking about Morph specifically, but let’s start with the broad strokes of your career. So based on what I was able to glean off the internet, you sort of got your start in video games and then pivoted into animated films and then series. Was the dream always to become a voice actor? Like, how did this all happen? J. P.: Yeah, in a roundabout way, it was. I grew up loving cartoons. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was my first love, then Tiny Toons and Animaniacs and Batman the Animated Series and all those wonderful shows of the 80s and 90s. But I was under the impression that in order to be hired to do voiceover, you had to be a famous on-camera actor, and I blame Robin Williams fo…