June 13th, 2008
The Greatest American Hero Guest Stars on Heroes
If you’re a fan of Heroes, and you were around during the ’80s, chances are you were also a fan of the TV show the Greatest American Hero, which starred William Katt as a high school teacher who was, in secret, a bumbling superhero thanks to a superpowered suit given to him by aliens in UFOs. No, really, this was the premise of The Greatest American Hero. In any case, Katt has just wrapped a guest-starring stint on Heroes Season 3, in which he plays, according to him, “really, really wonderful, seedy, smarmy-mouthed reporter that goes after [Ali Larter's character]“.
Yet another confirmation that Ali Larter and her Jessica altar ego will be back.
Katt talks more about his character via Newsarama:
A fan of Heroes since he first saw the pilot, Katt said he got the job because of a friendship with director Greg Beeman. “He’s a wonderful director. He’s been on the show for awhile after being up in Canada doing Smallville. Now he directs on Heroes quite a bit,” Katt says. “I did a show with him a number of years ago when we worked together on a two-hour movie of the week for NBC called Problem Child 3.”
Katt compares the comedic Greatest American Hero to the dramatic Heroes. “It’s more Hitchcockian. It’s a more dark and seedy look at the world of superheroes. It’s offering to television viewers what some of the better comic books do,” Katt says. “Tim Kring is just an extraordinary writer. And I think there’s no end to his creativity. He’s kind of mad, in an insane way. And that always makes it interesting. There are a lot of twists yet to come.”
You can read the rest of the article at Newsarama.
