During the Heroes world tour recently, Zachary Quinto spoke with Canadian newspaper, The National Post. Here's what he had to say...

NP: One of the few things Sylar and Spock have in common is that they're loners. Is that part of what makes you a good fit for those roles?
ZQ: You're asking if I'm a loner? I think it's very important for me to very distinctly separate these two experiences and these two characters. ... I think that's probably more a question for J.J. and Tim Kring. What is it about me or what qualities about me drew them to me for these roles? There is something about the way I carry myself obviously that lends itself to these kinds of characters, but I don't think that means I can't play other kinds of characters as well.

NP: What do you see as your dominant traits as an actor?
ZQ: I like to think that my dominant traits are versatility and a wide range of capacity as an actor, which I think comes from certainly my training and my experience in the theatre, growing up and learning a lot on stage, and learning a lot about style and learning a lot about how to inhabit style and how to embody it.

But again, these are questions that are difficult for me to answer, because I just do my thing. I do it the way I do it, and how people see it or respond to it, I can't have any control over, so it's hard to be objective about it.

NP: When you say inhabit and embody a style, what does that mean?
ZQ: Doing a Tennessee Williams play is very different from doing a Shakespeare play or a Molière play, or Tom Stoppard. There's just different styles of esthetic and of language and of the world that's created. Certainly both the world of Heroes and the world of Star Trek are heightened worlds, and they are both very stylized.

And I think that that's a strength that I have as an actor, is being able to understand those styles and commit to them and exist within the world of them, believably and genuinely. And that's what I can directly trace back to my training and my experience in the theatre.

NP: You were in a Molière play?
ZQ: I went to Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh for acting, and junior year I spent on classics, on Molière and Chekhov and Shakespeare.

Follow our link to read the full interview with this Heroes actor.

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One of our favorite actresses, Hayden Panettiere, appears to be a fan of our website.

Here she is, checking out the latest Heroes spoilers, quotes and photos at Heroes Fanatic. Thank you, Hayden, for your viewership!

During a press conference while on tour in Japan, a few cast members discussed the fate of their characters for next season.

We've covered most of these Heroes spoilers on the site already, but you can hear what Masi Oka and company have to say about them below:

As we gear up for the September 24 season premiere of Heroes, here are a few more tidbits we've picked up about the future of certain characters:

• Hiro and Ando may be worlds apart, but that doesn't mean this friendship is over. James Kyson Lee told The Associated Press he and the character played by Masi Oka would be still be in touch... despite being hundreds of years apart.

"There is going to be a really interesting channel of communication between us," Lee said. "How that's going to happen, you'll have to find out on the 24th. But it will be a fascinating way of storytelling. And what happens in one timeline will affect the other."

• Noah Gray-Cabey (pictured), who plays the precocious son of good/evil single mom Niki (Ali Larter), hinted at bigger things for his character, as well.

"I'll say that Micah is definitely stepping out of his comfort zone," he said. "And he's going to be meeting some new people, possibly even family."

(Other Heroes spoilers have said this will be Nichelle Nichols, who will play Micah's grandmother.)

• A new character named Maya (Dania Ramirez) struggles with a developing power. Sound familiar?

"I have a brother, Alejandro, and we're coming to the U.S. to try to find out what's going on with me," Ramirez said. "I don't fully understand what's happening to me. However, my ability has me on the run."

Near the end of last season, our friends at BuddyTV sat down with Heroes actor Jimmy Jean-Louis.

While not as well known as Masi Oka or Zachary Quinto, Louis portrays a vital character on the show, simply known for now as The Haitian. Here's what he had to say:

BuddyTV: The Haitian is such a presence on Heroes and the interesting thing is that for a lot of your episodes, he had no voice. Was that a big challenge for you as an actor?
Jimmy Jean-Louis: He had no voice but he had a big spirit. That's what mattered. Yes of course it is a big challenge when you don't get to say anything because it's always harder to portray what you want to portray without the words. So it's always a bigger challenge but because I understood the character and I am from Haiti and I connected pretty much with everything that I was asked to do so it wasn't too hard.

BuddyTV: Definitely, definitely. He does have that huge screen presence. Did you know in the beginning that eventually you were going to be able to talk?
Louis: Yeah, yeah. I'd been told you know the way they hired me that at one point I will be talking, at one point I will be going off with Claire and that was about it. I don't know what I'm going to be doing next but yes, I always knew it.

BuddyTV: Was the character a Haitian in the beginning? Did they tweak it towards your ethnicity?
Louis: Yeah, it was a funny process because originally I auditioned for the role of D.L. who is the husband and the father of the kid. I read for about three times for them and obviously they didn't want to go with me. And then a few months down the line they called me back to read for the character that I'm doing now. But I wasn't here. I was in Europe promoting another movie, so I couldn't see them. And they decided to give it to me eventually without seeing me. But originally it was supposed to be a guy from New Zealand not from Haiti at all. So I guess because they hired me then the character became the Haitian because I am from Haiti.

BuddyTV: At this point the Haitian, his name has not been revealed is that right?
Louis: No, no we still don't know. Even though he has a name, he has a name, but I think everybody sort of likes the Haitian so far, you know he has a lot of mystery with it so I don't know how much longer we're going to keep the Haitian but yeah, yeah, he really has a name.

BuddyTV: So at this point as far as you know it's not going to be revealed to us?
Louis: I don't know when, I don't know when. And I don't think I can reveal it to you either for the moment.

Follow our link to read the full interview with Jimmy Jean-Louis.

Zachary Quinto deserves a lot of credit for making Sylar the frightening, unique character that he is.

But a lot went in to the planning of this super villain. Below, Heroes Creator Tim Kring and others discuss the steps that were taken to mold Sylar into the man he's become...

Sylar's first "appearance" was simply a bloody skullcap found by Hiro during "Dont Look Back," as part of his first sojourn to the future. Before long, though, the Heroes baddie would be heralded by bloody scribblings and stuntmen in shadowy baseball caps to crank up the suspense.

Said Kring:

"I knew [Sylar] would be a better character if we built him up off screen for several episodes so that you were waiting and waiting and waiting. It was a little bit of a logistical nightmare to try and hide his identity, but we knew the character didn't appear until Episode 8, so that meant we really couldn't start casting until close to that."

The mystery of Sylar is then heightened when Mohinder discovers the these scrawlings in a closet of Sylar's apartment. Later in "One Giant Leap," Parkman confronts the baddie and shoots him several times, but the shadowy figure rises unharmed and escapes.

"Sylar was still evolving, and we liked the idea of keeping him hidden in the shadows. The big plus was that Sylar became even more larger than life by keeping him hidden," said writer Jeph Loeb. "Viewers started to speculate that it was a cast member. There were lots of votes for Nathan (Adrian Pasdar), some for "Niki's other personality" and even Claire because she could regenerate after the bullet wounds—ha!"

Quinto makes his first official appearance as Sylar when he sits in the corner of the Burnt Toast Diner during "Seven Minutes Midnight." He closely observes Hiro and his next intended victim, Charlie.

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We know Hayden Panettiere is 18 now.

But, still, the Heroes actress shouldn't go flaunting her goods everywhere she goes.

Seen here during the show's worldwide tour, Milo Ventimiglia is trying to warn Panettiere that a certain body part of hers may be exposed. We hope she listened...

Masi Oka recently gave props to Lost.

And not just because it's such a well-written, well-acted show. He also acknowledged the ABC series for helping to pave the way for Asian actors to land solid roles; the drama stars Koreans Kim Yun-jin and Daniel Dae Kim.

"There's a lot of credit that has to go to Lost for its storytelling and also the foresight and boldness to put two Asian characters on screen," Oka told The International Herald Tribune while promoting Heroes in Hong Kong with fellow cast members.

Oka said the success of Lost provided advertisers with confidence in shows with non-Caucasian actors. He added international viewers are also demanding shows with more diverse casts.

"The world wants to see things that are reflective of our global society that we have. Even in America, there are so many Asian-Americans and so many Latino-Americans," Masi said.

Another Asian cast member, Sendhil Ramamurthy, said he and Oka were fortunate.

"We were very fortunate that they went in the direction of having two Asian characters. I think there's a certain amount of luck involved, as well," he said.

Ramamurthy was born in Chicago. Oka was born in Tokyo and moved to Los Angeles as a child.

The two stars were in Hong Kong to promote Heroes with fellow actors Ali Larter and Greg Grunberg as part of an international tour that also includes stops in Tokyo, Singapore, London, Paris, Munich and Toronto.

We may need to start reading more of the Dallas Morning News.

Check out the praise this newspaper has for Heroes - as well as its first season DVD - and another show we love, Friday Night Lights...

To watch an episode of FNL or Heroes is to want to watch another, and another. And while there are always the Internet and on- demand services, DVDs remain the ultimate expression of this power-viewing style of consumption. Both collections were made with a keen understanding of this, although, as with the shows themselves, they take opposing approaches.

Heroes wears its self-knowingness on its sleeve, tagging each episode a "chapter," feeding its roots in the comic-book/online world with its lifeblood pursuit of everything behind-the-scenes and in-the-margins.

It includes oodles of audio commentaries, how-they-did-it documentaries and treasures such as creator Tim Kring's cut of the "unaired pilot."

FNL's DVD, meanwhile, like the show itself, is all artful restraint and understatement. Packaging is minimal: a few snapshot-style cast-in-character photographs culminating in an inner-jacket, multipanel portrait of stadium lights against the wide Texas sky.

Each approach, as with almost everything with these shows, is just right. Heroes - with its coils of characters and subplots, its intersecting conspiracy theories - benefits from the bag-of-tricks approach. It's fun to have more stuff to pore over; it's great to hear Kring and company talk about all the minute choices, all the incidental details about this scene or that storytelling twist.

It all feeds the fantasy.

Likewise, you don't really want to see or hear a lot about the making of FNL. This show is like a great magic trick, or even better, a beautiful dream – you don't really want to know how they did it; you don't want to be jostled awake. You just want to be caught up and carried away.

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Remember Molly Walker, the little girl Matt Parkman saved to begin season one... and then befriended again to end season one?

As most Heroes followers could have guessed, her fear of the "Boogeyman" will play a prominent role in season two.

Here's what Creator Tim Kring had to say about the part of Molly, also known as the Heroes "tracking device" for her unique super power...

To be honest, we actually thought her re-entry into the show was going to be a lot sooner, and it got pushed back. While we knew she was coming back, in all seriousness and candidness we didn't know it was going to be that late in the series. I would pay some attention to Molly Walker and what she represents as an important clue as to where [Season 2] is going.

That'll be revealed pretty much in the season opener, but this idea that Molly Walker and Suresh's [Sendhil Ramamurthy] sister had similar ailments is a key part of where this story is going in the second season.