H E R E S Heroes1_PDF_MiniMag 4/10/07 16:40 Page 1 FIRST EXCLUSIVE WEB-MAGAZINE! H E R E S THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE TIM KRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA ALI LARTER MY HEROES: On the show’s future Interview! Interview! Jack Coleman www.titanmagazines.com www.titanmagazines.co.uk Heroes1_PDF_MiniMag 4/10/07 16:41 Page 2 H IS M E S A R S U G O A E A E L Z S E #1 IN N – E O O W N ! Heroes has been an incredible journey for the likes of Peter Petrelli and Hiro Nakamura – but also for its creator Tim Kring! Here, Kring talks about the past, present and future of the show… THE FUTURE What are the differences in themes between season one and season two? “The theme of season one was just this idea of interconnectivity,” Kring replies, “that somehow these disparate characters were all interconnected and this idea of ordinary people coming together to do something great. And there were the themes of hope and regeneration of the world that I think connect with people. Again, the themes of the second season are still ‘volume one,’ and it was entitled some of those things, Genesis. And it just happened to because they’re be 23 episodes long. Volume BY ABBIE BERNSTEIN inherent in the premise two is entitled Generations. of the show. But in a We’re looking for volume two to more specific way, the end in the middle of the season, theme of the second which allows us to wrap up season is about the idea certain stories, which allows us of having to clean up to have new stories begin. So the mess that was left you don’t get a sense that if behind, which I think is you jump on the train, you a very important theme aggressively are being pushed right now. There are off the train, because you don’t some environmental know what’s going on. We’ve themes that we’re going committed ourselves to the idea to deal with. We will not of answering questions along the be blowing up any cities way, so that we don’t build up a or attempting to blow up frustration level of, ‘Why aren’t any cities.” they telling us? What’s going on To this end, season and why aren’t they telling us two, unlike season one, will this great thing. We’ll build to these answers?’” not build to one enormous certain mysteries that feel like climax. “The idea is actually they need to be solved, and • For more from Tim to do smaller finales, so that those will be solved, and others Kring, including his views we don’t have to carry the will string along, as with many on the Heroes characters, burden of having every single volumes of books and comic check out Heroes Magazine character come together to do books. We called season one Issue #1. Heroes1_PDF_MiniMag 4/10/07 16:41 Page 4 LI PETER PETREL H IS M E S A R S U G O A E A E L # Z S E 1 IN N – E O O W N BY ABBIE BERNSTEIN ! orking in Hollywood, Milo Ventimiglia is not far from his hometown of Anaheim, California. Ventimiglia made his television debut on a 1995 episode of The Fresh WPrince of Bel Air. He had recurring and regular roles on the series Opposite Sex, Boston Public, and American Dreams, but was perhaps best known prior to playing Heroes’ Peter Petrelli for his two seasons as Rory Gilmore’s boyfriend, Jess, on Gilmore Girls. Ventimiglia has also often appeared on the big screen in projects including Boys Life 2, She’s All That, the werewolf movie Cursed, the horror film Stay Alive, Rocky Balboa (as Rocky Balboa’s son), and most recently in the upcoming thriller, Pathology. Ventimiglia has also formed a production company and has directed a series of 12 five-minute films for the American Eagle clothing company. What’s it like a lot of that in the stuff, but they portraying Peter’s scenes where we wouldn’t let me. So it fraternal relationship were butting heads. was show up, do my with Adrian Pasdar’s I mean, I have sisters lines while dangling Nathan? in real life and I know instead of free-falling VENTIMIGLIA: what that was like on a wire (laughs), I don’t think I’ve growing up (laughs), which is a lot more ever had a brother but having an older fun. You’re pretending on-screen. I’ve pretty brother was fun. to make it look very much been an only perilous, when you child, oddly enough, Do you like the know you’re quite in a lot of the work flying/falling safe. I think that’s the that I’ve done, so to scenes? difficulty in it. But at have a brother was I’ve done several the same time, kind of fun. And wire stunts [before]. you’ve got to Adrian Pasdar – we I was on a 60-foot approach each of really took a liking to decelerator on the those scenes the one another and got concrete on a same way you would along great and built commercial. I did any other scene, the relationship up wire-work on [Cursed] standing with two feet before we even got for Wes Craven and on the ground – onto set. These two Dimension. I’m really what’s the intent, characters – they’re pretty comfortable in where is the scene so different, but at a rig and harness. It’s going – and then the base of it, they’re always exciting to be just listening to brothers, and if one 40 feet up in the air, what’s going on. of them were in just kind of hanging Those are brief harm’s way, they by a cinched steel snippets, but I think would step right in cable, but at the they turned out and try and save same time, I asked to pretty well because their brother – which do the bigger stunts, of what Adrian was was shown when like literally jumping doing in the scene Nathan instinctively off the 12-storey for me and what catches Peter. So we building, and I was hopefully I was giving “Peter has to make a change – he has to go from tried to show hoping to do that back to him. boyish in nature and youthful in thought to the strength of a man who’s got to stand up for FOR INTERVIEWS WITH THE ENTIRE CAST OF HEROES, CHECK OUT himself and for everybody else.” THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE BRAND NEW MAGAZINE – ON SALE NOW! Heroes1_PDF_MiniMag 4/10/07 16:41 Page 6 ANDERS NICOLE ‘NIKI’ S H IS M E S A R S U G O A E A E L # Z S E 1 IN N – E O O W N BY ABBIE BERNSTEIN ! li Larter was well-versed in playing butt-kicking heroines with a supernatural bent well before she was cast as Niki Sanders and her doppelganger Jessica, starring in AHouse on Haunted Hill, Final Destination, Final Destination 2, and the upcoming Resident Evil: Extinction (filmed between the Heroes Pilot and beginning of production on the first season). Other acting credits include the films American Outlaws, Legally Blonde, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, while guest roles on series have included Suddenly Susan, Just Shoot Me, and Dawson’s Creek. Born in New Jersey, Larter began modeling at age 13, a career that allowed her to travel the world. She came to Los Angeles, where her actress friend Amy Smart suggested Larter check out an acting class. ALI LARTER: I was blown away that all of the emotions that you feel in life and all of the experiences that you have – there’s somewhere to funnel them out, and once I experienced that, there was no turning back. I knew that was what I wanted to do with my life... HEROES like that. I mean, her and her world MAGAZINE: Have it is a superhero is just crumbling you ever wondered, story, but for me, it’s around her. watching from out just really ordinary of the corner of your people who are How do you like mind, if your mirror living their lives playing a mom? image is doing and realizing that Noah [Gray-Cabey, something different something’s happening who plays Micah] is than you are? to them. I think people such an open, ALI LARTER: want to be special – amazing little guy, Absolutely, but I know at least, I know I do. so responsive and [feeling like Niki feels It’s that quest of really just present with Jessica] happens understanding who with me and delightful more with those you are, and to work with. But one moments where I feel I think that’s where of the things that like somebody’s heroism and people’s drew me to this role behind me. It’s like love for superheroes was, she just wasn’t when you sense comes in, is that a stay-at-home mom. energy or you sense desire to be different, She speaks to her someone’s watching be unique. So I’ve son about the you and then there’s never said, “Oh, problems of life, she no one there, but it gosh, I want to speaks to him almost kicks you in your gut play a superhero,” on a level that he’s for a minute.