October 9th, 2007
Mohinder, Alejandro, and Monica Interviews
Entertainment Weekly currently has an interview with Shalim Ortiz who plays Alejandro Herrera, one-half of the Fleeing Twins on Heroes, at their site right now. (You can click here to read it.) No spoilers, more of an introduction to the actor — and considering what we (may) have already learned about Alejandro’s fate (SPOILERS), you might want to catch up with him now before it’s too late. Meanwhile, over at the AV Club, there is an interview with Sendhil Ramamurthy, the Indian actor who plays Mohinder Suresh on the show. Some interesting details about the actor, namely that he hails from Texas!
Here’s an excerpt from the Ramamurthy interview about Season 2:
The overall story is that all of the main characters are spread out and getting on with their lives—or trying to, anyway. If the first season was about ordinary people becoming extraordinary, this season is about everybody trying to be ordinary. Everyone wants to be as normal and under-the-radar as possible. My character is the most changed. They really flipped Suresh and did a 180—which I’m really happy about. He’s a man of action this season. I think it’s really going to shock the audience. It’s one of those things where they’ll probably be yelling at the TV when they see some of the stuff that Suresh does. He’s still the same person that he was at the core, but there’s a different thing driving him, and he’s working with and coming into contact with old and new characters who nobody ever thought that Suresh would be associating with. It’s kind of a bold thing for the writers to do, to flip the character like that. Hopefully it works. I think he’s a much smarter character than he was last season. There’s a lot less of Suresh being completely in the dark and every other character and the audience knowing what’s going on except him.
You can read the rest of the interview here.
Another interview added, this one with Dana Davis, who plays Monica, the New Orleans-based hero who will make her first appearance in next week’s episode, “The Kindness of Strangers”, by FadPov.
An excerpt from the interview, about her character’s chances of surviving Season 2:
FADPOV: What do you think are Monica’s chances of making it through the season?
Dana Davis: I’d say the chances are pretty good. She’s just the kind of character that you want to keep around a while because you want to know her story. It’s a journey for Monica, so we’re going to want to know a lot about her. Like I said, the writers do a really good job of giving it to you piece by piece, little by little. So yeah, I think she’s going to be on the island for a while!
FADPOV: Have you had the chance to work with any of the other cast members yet? If so, what episode will we get to see you interact with them?
Dana Davis: I run up with Ali’s character. I also work with Sendhil, which we will see in episodes five and six. It’s hard because in a sense you feel very cut off from the rest of the cast. The writers are so amazing that each and every story sort of stands on its own, and you don’t end up working with the others as often as you’d like. I’m looking forward to when our stories begin to blend into one another. But for now Monica is in New Orleans making her mark.
Read the rest of the interview here.
