Jana Burson of Lake Township is a proud, doting mother like so many others. The difference is that her son, Massillon-born Matt Lanter, is a rising star of television and movies.
Recently, Burson attended a screening of the current comedy “Vampires Suck” with about 20 of her friends. “I thought it was really funny,” she says. Lanter plays the leading role of solemn, pale vampire Edward Sullen in this spoof of the “Twilight” movies.
At her son’s insistence, “I had to endure all those ‘Twilight’ movies beforehand so I would get the jokes,” Burson says. “Those movies are so silly, all they have to do is amp it up one notch and it becomes hilarious.”
Prior to “Vampires Suck,” Lanter, 27, was the lead in another comic spoof, “Disaster Movie.” He also appeared in “Sorority Row,” a slasher movie that featured Carrie Fisher, and starred in “Wargames: The Dead Code.”
On the CW series “90210,” Lanter plays Liam Court, a sensitive bad-boy surfer type a la Luke Perry’s Dylan McKay in the original “Beverly Hills 90210.”
Asked about watching her son on “90210,” Burson pauses then says, “It’s interesting. The makeout scenes are kind of hard to watch as a mom. They get pretty intense. I’m pretty conservative, so I sometimes watch it through my fingers.”
Lanter also provides the voice of Anakin Skywalker on the animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” now in its third season on The Cartoon Network. His big break was playing the son of U.S. President Geena Davis on the 2005 ABC-TV series “Commander in Chief.”
On a short break from filming “90210,” Lanter returned to Lake Township this week. “When he comes home, it’s usually three things. He sees his girlfriend, he goes to church and he golfs (with his stepfather Val Burson),” Burson says. “He likes to go to the ice cream stand and play cornhole. He doesn’t have to be ‘on’ when he’s home.”
About her son, who attended Whipple and Northwood elementary schools locally before moving to Atlanta at age 8, Burson says, “Matt’s a good kid, a good person and very humble.”
Recently, Burson attended a screening of the current comedy “Vampires Suck” with about 20 of her friends. “I thought it was really funny,” she says. Lanter plays the leading role of solemn, pale vampire Edward Sullen in this spoof of the “Twilight” movies.
At her son’s insistence, “I had to endure all those ‘Twilight’ movies beforehand so I would get the jokes,” Burson says. “Those movies are so silly, all they have to do is amp it up one notch and it becomes hilarious.”
Prior to “Vampires Suck,” Lanter, 27, was the lead in another comic spoof, “Disaster Movie.” He also appeared in “Sorority Row,” a slasher movie that featured Carrie Fisher, and starred in “Wargames: The Dead Code.”
On the CW series “90210,” Lanter plays Liam Court, a sensitive bad-boy surfer type a la Luke Perry’s Dylan McKay in the original “Beverly Hills 90210.”
Asked about watching her son on “90210,” Burson pauses then says, “It’s interesting. The makeout scenes are kind of hard to watch as a mom. They get pretty intense. I’m pretty conservative, so I sometimes watch it through my fingers.”
Lanter also provides the voice of Anakin Skywalker on the animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” now in its third season on The Cartoon Network. His big break was playing the son of U.S. President Geena Davis on the 2005 ABC-TV series “Commander in Chief.”
On a short break from filming “90210,” Lanter returned to Lake Township this week. “When he comes home, it’s usually three things. He sees his girlfriend, he goes to church and he golfs (with his stepfather Val Burson),” Burson says. “He likes to go to the ice cream stand and play cornhole. He doesn’t have to be ‘on’ when he’s home.”
About her son, who attended Whipple and Northwood elementary schools locally before moving to Atlanta at age 8, Burson says, “Matt’s a good kid, a good person and very humble.”
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Matt is the model for the ideal boyfriend. And the most attractive things about Matt that I read in this article. The fact that when he goes home on of the three things he does is go to church. Now that is HOT!
Matt is the model for the ideal boyfriend. And the most attractive things about Matt that I read in this article. The fact that when he goes home on of the three things he does is go to church. Now that is HOT!
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