Our friends at BuddyTV recently spoke to Greg Grunberg about how Heroes is dealing with the current writers strike. Here’s what the actor had to say:

The writers’ strike is fresh in everyone’s minds. How is that affecting Heroes and the production?
Well, it’s interesting, we got a really early jump on the season, the writers did at least, we were way ahead which is a really good thing for awhile. But as you know in TV, as soon as the episodes start airing, it quickly catches up to you.

We had a couple extra scripts but now we’re pretty much caught up and I hope this thing gets resolved very quickly because we all want to get back to work.

We’re still shooting, but we have another couple weeks and then we go down because the writers don’t have any finished. You know, they have, basically a break-down and some outlines of the next few scripts, but nothing complete enough for us to keep shooting.

It’s frustrating because we’ve been on such a roll this year, especially right now with all the stories, you know. It’s a shame, I hope it gets resolved quickly.

Next week is the flashback to four months ago.
Right, right, right. Which is so cool. I love that we do that on our show, especially because people have been waiting. They’re like, “I don’t understand! What?” There’s some major looming questions that I think people have. We were, I think, possibly better at it last year at answering all these questions early on.

I think it’s taken a little longer this year, over the course of more episodes to answer some questions, but everything will be answered as far as, how did they get from that explosion at Kirby Plaza to where they are, when we started four months later. A lot of those questions, almost all of them, are answered next week.

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Here is a recently interview with Greg Grunberg. Who knew Matt Parkman was such a practical joker…

You arrived on the Heroes set this morning at 5:45am. How long is a typical shoot day?
It depends on how much stuff I have, but they usually cram all of my stuff in one day. If you check the call sheet, #5 is all over the call sheet. So it’s a big day for me. I have three or four scenes today. Twelve to thirteen hours. That’s usually what it is, about a thirteen hour day.

With all that togetherness, who is the biggest prankster in the cast?
Definitely me. I literally prepare way too much at home, so I can mess around with the lines when I get here. I love to just totally f-ck around and have a great time and when they yell action, you bring it. This is the only way I work. I can’t work any other way.

How do the other actors react to your on set antics? Do they join in?
If people want to see what we do between takes and between scenes. They can go to YouTube. Adrian Pasdar takes his little camera and we have been shooting these mini movies that are hilarious. 15 second, 30 second, a minute and a half little things. If you do a search for ‘buckshotwon’ on YouTube you’ll see all of them.

Hayden, Sendhil, me… We’ve done all these little movies. That’s what we do. It’s fun.

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Heroes co-stars, and good friends, Kristen Bell and Greg Grunberg made an appearance this past Saturday at the 2007 Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.

Looks like they enjoyed themselves there, as well.

Our friends at the-OWI.com spoke with Greg Grunberg earlier this summer.

In the interview, the Heroes actor discusses his character, his future and his fondess for a certain adult film star…

OWI: Do you prefer playing Matt Parkman as the nice guy we see now, or the future “morally gray” version
we saw in ‘String Theory’?
GG: I always want people to think that he could turn on a dime if he had to. If I come across as nice ALL the
time it wouldn’t be interesting. We all have a dark side. Don’t we?

OWI: What did Matt ever do with those diamonds?
GG: Gave them to his pregnant wife Janice. She was left holding the bag… literally.

OWI: If you could play any role, what would you like it to be?
GG: I would love to play Scotty in Star Trek.

OWI: How much of the real Greg do we see on the screen? Are you anything like any of the characters we
see you play?
GG: I never fall far from the characters I play. There is always a big part of me in them. I can’t help it.

OWI: What does the immediate future hold for you?
GG: Very busy on shooting the second season and prepping a film.

OWI: Tell us about your best day on the Heroes set. Can you tell us about the worst day without hurting
anyone’s feelings?
GG: The first day back on season 2. Any day of work for an actor is always his best.

OWI: Any hints for aspiring actors?
GG: Never get out of line. You are standing in a long line of other actors who have the same dream you do.
Those who stay the course WILL eventually get their shot. Never give up. If you do, you are just moving the
actors behind you in line a little closer to THEIR dream.

OWI: Any plans to direct or produce?
GG: Sure. I’m producing and starring in a film I wrote right now. So yes… it’s in my future.

OWI: Who do you like to watch on screen?
GG: Terry O’ Quinn on Lost… and Jenna Jameson.

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.

It’s not bad being a pretend super hero.

Earlier this week a dozen cast members began flying the friendly skies for eight days to promote the release of the Heroes Season 1 DVD. Greg Grunberg is across the Atlantic with Ali Larter, Masi Oka and Sendhil Ramamurthy.

“We are having the greatest time ever in Asia,” Grunberg told TV Guide. “Tokyo was mind-blowing, and Hong Kong is crazy for the show.”

Greg Grunberg and Ali Larter face the Hong Kong media.

The whirlwind tour includes stops in eight countries on three continents, concluding on September 2. Stars were split into three groups of four to meet and greet fans in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York City and Toronto.

“In Japan, Masi [Oka] and I took a late-night subway ride to Electric Town to shop,” Grunberg said. “We snapped nerdy photos of both of us trying to stop time on the busy Tokyo tube. It’s good to be the mind-reading cop!”

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.

Pity Greg Grunberg in this scenario, people.

He’s just trying to have a good time with his Heroes cast mates… but it gets dangerous when you’re over the age of 30 (or 21) and dancing this close to Hayden Panettiere. Even though the beautiful young actress is celebrating her 18th birthday soon, well, she’ll still just be 18.

So we wish you luck, Greg. You can always think about baseball or something…

A trio of actors from Heroes recently talked about the pressures of filming season two, following such a successful inaugural campaign:

Milo Ventimiglia: I think there’s always going to be pressure no matter whether it’s the first, second, third fourth or fifth season. But I think you have to strive to better yourself and better your characters.

And you look at going into a second season as you are familiar with what the workload is going to be, but then again, this show is always going to be a big one to make. So I think, if anything, it reminds us not to slow down and not to slack off, to do better and to grow.

Greg Grunberg: I think there’s less pressure this year, personally, just because a pilot usually is never as good as the series, and this pilot was just extraordinary. And I think we have kept the quality. To me, at least, whenever I received the next script, it just got better and better. And I think we are in a group.

We are really a group on the show. Certainly, the scripts keep getting better for it. So it’s just unbelievable, the stuff that’s coming out.

Zachary Quinto: Also, I think that pressure, it comes from outside, and I think part of the thing that made this show so successful is that everybody that works on it, you know, from Tim all the way through the cast and the crew, is here to do the best job that they can do, and that has nothing to do with the outside reaction to the show. The work we do here is separate from that, and I think that’s what we do as well.

So I think that sort of takes a little edge off, too, is that this doesn’t seem to be a group that’s too interested in plugging into all of this stuff because we know what we are working on is what really matters.

Heroes cheerleader Hayden Panettiere will make a guest appearance with fellow cast member Greg Grunberg’s all-star Band From TV this weekend.

“I sang with them at the wrap party for our show,” Panettiere told People magazine Tuesday at a party in L.A. celebrating NBC’s fall season. “I saw them and said, ‘Anytime you guys want me to perform with you I’m totally up for it.’ ”

Panettiere, who has an album on the way and recently made headlines with her rendition of the National Anthem at the July 4 fireworks ceremony in Washington, D.C., will take the stage with Grunberg and his fellow actor/musicians on Saturday in Orange County, Calif. at Cal State Fullerton, after the Orange County Flyers baseball game.

The celeb-heavy Band From TV is a rock ‘n’ roll cover band featuring Grunberg on drums, Desperate Housewives’ James Denton on guitar, House’s Hugh Laurie on piano and both Bachelor star Bob Guiney and Kitchen Confidential actress Bonnie Somerville on vocals.

Panettiere says she’ll jump at any chance to practice singing onstage. “I have terrible stage fright and [with an album coming out] I’ll need to go on tour at some point – so I need to practice.”

But Grunberg later laughed off Panettiere’s claims. “Give me a break,” he said. “She just played in front of like 500,000 people!”

This weekend’s audience is expected to be closer to 5,000, according to the Heroes actor.

“That’s like the biggest audience we’ve played. It’s really exciting,” he says. “We’re going to do a whole set, and then [Hayden] is going to do two amazing songs.”

So what exactly will Panettiere sing? “I’m singing Meredith Brooks’s ‘Bitch,’ and then I’m singing Alanis Morissette’s ‘Ironic,’? she says. “It’ll be fun!”