July 5th, 2006
Greg Grunberg Talks “Heroes”
Eagle-eye forum member “blader” spotted a May 22 interview with “Heroes” star Greg Grunberg, in which Grunberg talks about the show and his character. The full interview can be found here, but here are the relevant parts…
About his character:
I play an LAPD officer who desperately wants to be on the SWAT team, but I’m dyslexic and I can’t pass the test. All of the sudden I start hearing things and it turns out my ability is to read minds, but I can’t control it. Like all these other characters, I don’t know why it’s been given to me, I don’t know what’s going on. And my wife and I, who’ve been at each others throat anyway, because of our relationship� Well she thinks I’m crazy now. And it’s just a really interesting character, because I go from excited that I can use my ability to capture somebody, to hopefully over the course of the first season maybe abusing the ability. It’s very cool.
About the storylines:
I think very soon it’s all gonna tie in together, because much the way it is in X-Men, these characters are coming together to do something, and do something big. And it’s alluded to in the pilot that it’s apocalyptic. It’s the end. They show the guy who is able to paint the future� He paints New York City blowing up; like a nuclear explosion. So we know something is coming and we’re all gonna try and stop it. Meanwhile, there’s a dark, evil force. The guy with the glasses that you see in the preview. He finds out and he’s trying to pick us off one at a time. It’s very cool. [Executive Producer] Tim Kring wrote such a great script.
You can read the rest of the interview over at IGN here.
