Originally Published: July 28, 2009, on 1050ESPN.com (now ESPNNewYork.com)

X-Men 2: X-Men United was easily one of the best comic book movies of all-time. It introduced some of the most memorable characters from the long-hallowed canon of the X-Men while still delivering a compelling plot. One of these infamous characters was Lady Deathstrike, played by the lovely Kelly Hu.

Kelly has a lot on her plate, though, besides appeasing her obsessive comic book fans (a group I begrudgingly admit that I fall into). As an accomplished actress and voice actress, with numerous TV and movie credits to her name, Kelly continues to build her comic book fan base as the new character Sha Shan Nguyen in the new Specatcular Spider-Man cartoon, which has new episodes airing every Monday at 7:30 PM on Disney XD.

But many of us geeks still idolize and think of her as Deathstrike. So, when Robin Lundberg and I had the chance to talk with Kelly, we both knew we were going to focus on the clawed femme fatale.

With that in mind, in honor of the passing of the recent San Diego ComicCon, Robin and I sat down with Kelly to ask her how she handles dealing with some of the more absurd individuals in the comic community (again, myself included) and how it is to play such an iconic character like Deathstrike.


CLICK HERE – to listen to Robin Lundberg and I interview the very lovely Kelly Hu.