Ali Larter News (Page 2)

In anticipation of the Heroes season two premiere, "Four Month Later," TV Guide set up a photo shoot with three actresses from our favorite show.

You can see the finished product here.

But how did Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere and Ali Larter get to the cover of this publication? Here are a few behind-the-scenes shots...

We didn't see Kristen Bell in the season premiere. But this former Veronica Mars star has signed on for at least 13 episode.

Hayden Panettiere stares into the camera.

And all three actresses together. Ali Larter looks beautiful as always.

The Heroes PR machine is in full swing.

Masi Oka is in the latest cover of Entertainment Weekly.

And now, three of the beautiful actresses from the show are featured on TV Guide. Check out Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere and Ali Larter below:

Ali Larter is not shy.

Listen to this story the Heroes actress relayed recently to Cosmopolitan magazine.

"I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow," the actress said.

And while the pair isn't hitched yet, Larter and actor Hayes MacArthur (who appears in the upcoming film The Game Plan) have enjoyed a steady two-year relationship.

"Now that I'm actually in love, I know that what came before wasn't real," she said. "It's about being there for each other through the ups and downs of life."

Overall, one might wonder where this brazen attitude comes from? The answer: Ali's native state. She grew up far away from the Hollywood spotlight.

"I'll always be a Jersey girl," Larter said. "I don't always get my way, but you'll know exactly how I feel about it."

Masi Oka did not win an Emmy Award Sunday night. But he did take the stage during the ceremony:

Similarly, Ali Larter wasn't even nominated for Best Looking Actress with Dual Personalities. Still, she presented an award alongside 24 star Kiefer Sutherland:

A few minutes before the start of the Emmy Awards, a pair of Heroes actors took time for the cameras:

Ali Larter waves to her fans. Hey, don't we know that guy over her shoulder from somewhere?

Zachary Quinto looks a tad less scary here than he does as Sylar.

Ali Larter graces the cover of the latest Cosmopolitan magazine.

In the issue, the Heroes star gives a personal interview. Pick up a copy to read more, but check out excerpts of it below:

Until recently, we only got teases of 31-year-old actress Ali Larter. (She played the brave girl who sported a whipped-cream bikini in 1999's Varsity Blues and Reese Witherspoon's jailed sorority sister in 2001's Legally Blonde.)

But those small roles had one big thing in common: They left audiences wanting more. That craving was finally satisfied this past TV season, when Ali rocketed to stardom thanks to the success of Heroes, the Emmy-nominated show in which she brilliantly plays good-and-evil dual personalities Niki and Jessica Sanders.

"It's been a dream," Ali says. "Now I'm kind of in a sweet spot in my life and career."

Arriving in that happy place certainly wasn't a cakewalk.

"The rejection you deal with in Hollywood is hard," Ali admits. "But you have to try to take some of the emotion out of it. Even though it's a creative endeavor, it's a job."

That levelheaded perspective could be attributed to a decision Ali made in 2002, when she returned to the East Coast to assess her career objectives. (She's originally from New Jersey.)

"That was a turning point," Ali says. "I moved to New York to define what kind of actress I wanted to be. When I tried to get back into the industry, I couldn't get a job...but it made me dig deeper."

Summoning the focus and tenacity to survive in eat-you-up-spit-you-out Hollywood has paid off — in a major way. In addition to season two of Heroes, Ali has three movies out this year: the sci-fi flick Resident Evil: Extinction, an indie film called Marigold, and the National Lampoon caveman comedy Homo Erectus.

It's a diverse array of characters that capitalizes on the range of Ali's own personality.

"I'm a bit of a contradiction," she says. "I like tomboy stuff, but I also love girlie, girlie lingerie because I feel sexy when I'm in it."

British newspaper The Daily Mail recently sat down with Ali Larter. Here are a handful of quotes, all from the mouth of this Heroes star, and all interesting to read:

You never know when you're going to have to fight or take your clothes off. So my research for Heroes has been invaluable.

I worked with a few different martial arts trainers to make myself completely believable in the fight sequences and I was amazed how gruelling it was.

The stripping was even more demanding, if anything. In one of the episodes of Heroes, I end up stripping in a bar. I thought, "If I'm going to do this I'm going to be the best goddamn stripper the world has ever seen." So I really threw myself into it. Four hours a day for a whole week I was up and down this lap-dancer's pole. By the end of it I had a new-found respect for women who do that for a living.

For my first-ever movie scene I was completely naked except for a bikini made of whipped cream (pictured). That was my first scene in Varsity Blues and I had no clue what I was supposed to do. I knew if I started crying it would be hard to stop – so I cried for seven hours solid before filming started. The scene must have worked OK because so many people remember it.

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly. I seem to spend more and more time on planes these days. It would be just wonderful to be able to flap my arms and take off to wherever I needed to be.

When a door closes I always find another one to kick open. I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life. It's enabled me to live the kind of life I want to live. No one's going to tell me no – and if you do tell me no it only gets me more fired up to prove you wrong

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The Heroes world tour touched down in Singapore over the weekend.

Two of the actors on the trip - Greg Grunberg and Ali Larter - conferred at a microphone before answering questions from reporters.

But our spies overheard their conversation. And it was focused on an unfortunate incident from early in the season...

Ali: Hey, sorry about throwing you out a window and everything.

Greg: That's okay. We all go a little crazy sometimes.

The Heroes world tour is in full effect. Earlier today, a quarter of our favorite actors greeted fans on Tokyo:

Sendhil Ramamurthy, Ali Larter, Masi Oka and Greg Grunberg smile for the camera during a stop in Japan.

Weeks before season two of Heroes, a pair of of its bigger stars sat down for an interview.

Here's what Ali Larter and Sendhil Ramamurthy had to say about the past and future of their characters - and our favorite show...

IGN TV: How far into production are you on Season 2?
Sendhil Ramamurthy: We're in the middle of the third episode.

IGN TV: A year ago you were here with the show before it premiered, having no idea how it would go over. What's it been like in the past 12 months seeing it explode the way it has?
Ali Larter: I'm always anxious to hear what everyone else says to these things. It has been an absolutely amazing year. What I think is so incredible is that I feel stimulated creatively, and we took a lot of risks on the show in the first season. And to be able to feel fulfilled on that side of it is for me the most important thing as an actor. But to also have this appeal, on this global level, is extraordinary. It's extraordinary that we really touched a cord.

Ramamurthy: Bouncing off her and what she said about a global level, it really is like a global thing. I was traveling around over the hiatus and I was in France and England and Mexico, and everybody knew the show; everybody knew who we were. I mean it really is nuts. You can hope to be on a hit show, but to be on a show that's kind of like branched out, like this has, I don't even know…

IGN TV: Sendhil, I remember talking to you on the set before the show had debuted, and you were telling me how you and Milo Ventimiglia were so excited just to see the big billboard painting on the side of NBC, and were going there to take pictures of it.
Ramamurthy: I still have that picture on my phone!

IGN TV: I know you guys have to be very secretive, but can you talk at all about where Season 2 picks up?
Ramamurthy: Season 2… I can tell you this. Season 2 picks up four months after Season 1 ended.
[At this point Larter taps Ramamurthy on his shoulder and nods towards some nearby girls]
Larter: These girls just looked over and went "Oh my god! Oh my god, there he is!" I swear!
Ramamurthy: [Laughs] The best thing about the show is standing next to her.
Larter: [Miming fans] "Ahhh!" Sendhil, do the girls come up to you and fawn? Because as a girl, you know guys aren't like "Oh, you're so lovely." They're like "How you doing?" or they hit on you.

IGN TV: But the girls get into more of the shrieking thing, right?
Ramamurthy: Listen, they pretty much leave me alone, because I'm mostly out and about with my wife. But a few come up…
Larter: And she's got a big ol' ring on her finger.
Ramamurthy: Yeah, exactly.

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