Clayface Stars Praise Batman: The Animated Series and Ron Perlman's 'Amazing' Performance as the DC Villain

Clayface stars Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie were big fans of Batman: The Animated Series growing up in the UK, recalling how they would rush home to watch it after school.

“It was a ritual for a long time,” Ackie told IGN. “You finish school at 3:30, you get home, you watch Batman.”

Horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s original screenplay for Clayface drew its inspiration directly from the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Feat of Clay” that reimagined how actor Matt Hagen became Clayface.

“It was really interesting being involved with this where I got to revisit that ‘Feat of Clay’ episode,” Rhys Harries said, heaping praise on Clayface voice actor Ron Perlman.

“Ron Perlman does such an amazing job with the voice on that and the sequences in that are so sick. When he's shape-shifting and he's having this [exchange] with Batman where he's like, ‘I don't know who I am.’”

Ackie, who was paired with Rhys Harries for …