In case you haven’t noticed yet, NBC and Tim Kring have invested quite a bit of their Season 3 time on a new character named Daphne Millbrook, to be played by Brea Grant. The character will have superspeed, and the first time we see her, she’ll have stolen something very valuable from Hiro. The Brea Grant publicity tour continues, this time with an interview with Comic Book Resources, where Grant reveals (perhaps unintentionally) a couple of SPOILERS from the upcoming season. As always, turn away now, and do not read on unless you want to know…
The whole interview can be found at CBR. Below are the highlights.
She reveals about her powers compared to Hiro’s:
“He can stop time but because I’m so fast I can move within his time-stopped world,” Grant explained. “We sort of cancel each other’s powers out. I can run around in his stopped world but I can’t run at super-speeds. He can’t do anything about it, so it’s a good dynamic between the two of us. He’s constantly the good guy, where as I’m more of the bad guy.”
Okay, that’s not really true. They don’t actually “cancel” each other’s powers out. Remember, Hiro can time travel, too, not just stop time. It wouldn’t matter how fast she can run if he just, say, go back 20 seconds into the past to do something over, or 20 seconds into the future to intercept something she’s about to do. The notion that their powers cancel each other out is ridiculous.
And this part basically confirms my belief that they’re setting Daphne up as an anti-hero with a redemption arc coming later in the season:
“I wouldn’t say that deep down she’s a terrible person or anything,” said Grant. “She’s no Sylar but she’s a thief. I think in the end she’s sort of an innocent. She’s been a thief for a long time, she’s been on her own and had to take care of herself. Now all of the sudden she is faced with these people who have these much bigger issues at stake and that’s going to change the way she reacts to things. But my character has many turns throughout the season. There is much to look forward to.”
Plus, if you’ve seen her scenes in the trailers, she’s way too peppy and “silver tongued” to be a true villain like, say, Sylar. He just slices your head open. She’s liable to back-talk you to death.
Now here’s the SPOILER part: Grant reveals that she’s already worked with Linderman, and that their scenes take place in the present, and are not flashbacks.
While discussing her experience working with a particular actor on the show, Grant revealed some interesting information about the upcoming season. “I got to work with Malcolm McDowell and it was amazing,” she said. “He’s so cool and has about a million stories. He’s also the ultimate bad guy. He’s so evil that it’s cool.”
But isn’t Linderman dead? Nope, as we’ve already learned from these mega spoilers, he’s very much alive, and still have plans for the Petrelli boys.
You can read the rest of the interview over at CBR.
