Ali Larter in Heroes
Ali Larter Talks Heroes
“I was living in New York and I moved back to LA fully just in January and this was my first pilot season,” Larter said. “To me, it had never been something that had truly attracted me, mostly because of the schedule, that I had to live in LA and the commitment that's involved in that. But when I moved back this year, I thought it was kind of a great time to see what's out there. I think that the material on television is the best that it's ever been. The best writers are there.”
She says that now. Most of the scripts she read before Heroes weren’t about to pull her into a year-long daily grind. “I read a ton of pilots and I just didn't respond to anything and I thought, 'You know, maybe this just isn't going to be right for me' and then I got a hold of Tim Kring's script and I just thought it was fascinating. I think he writes an amazing role for women, at least for me. To get a chance to play a stripper, a mother, someone who goes left when she should go right, whose world is crumbling around her and that all these characters all over the world are discovering these things about them. It's not about 'Oh, now we're gonna save the world.' It's about 'How do we get our kids to school? How do you pay the bills? How do you go on with life when something is happening to you? Are you going crazy? Is this really happening?’ And it's very much intellectualized and internalized.”
Good thing Larter can explain all of that, because all the promos are pretty vague. We see people discovering powers but we don’t know how they’re all going to come together. Will they become a crime fighting team, or will there be a big event they have to address? “I think the pilot is in how the characters are dealing with this happening to them. So, I loved that. I loved the way that he wrote. I also felt like, if I was going to do a show, there are so many places that it can go and I felt like I can live with Niki for a while. The questions of what brought her to this place in her life, all the way from, all these thing are happening to her, is she going to be able to use them for good or evil? What is really happening?”
Larter knows her character’s power, but we don’t get to find out for a few weeks. Moving ahead, she hopes the writers continue letting her in on their secrets. “I hope a week before. I don't know, is it usually the night before? It's just going to end up being a different process for me. There's no planning and I think that I so responded to Nikki, for whatever reason. So just bring it. I guess I'm just gonna have to play ball.”
Heroes begins airing on Monday, September 25th at NBC.
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