Emma
01-29-2007, 07:10 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/08.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> At first glance, he's just another pretty face, albeit one that, for the longest time, he kept hidden by a beard. But there must be more to Santiago Cabrera than his good looks. Why else would he become a hero on Heroes?
As drug-addicted painter Isaac Mendez on NBC's hottest show, Cabrera is in some ways one of us. Only he can paint the future, of course, but, like us, he does not know what his paintings mean.
And in real life, he knows little more than we do about his future or the future of Heroes.
"In the beginning we all wanted to find out where our characters were going," he says. "Now I've not only come to realize the reality — that we're not going to find out things — but I'm having fun with it."
Born in Chile, Cabrera grew up in London, where he studied acting. He moved to Los Angeles only a year ago. Two months in, he landed Heroes.
"I feel lucky," he said, quickly adding that he's been an actor for eight years. "But this is new — I've never been in something so huge and that has gotten such a big reaction. That's exciting."
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As drug-addicted painter Isaac Mendez on NBC's hottest show, Cabrera is in some ways one of us. Only he can paint the future, of course, but, like us, he does not know what his paintings mean.
And in real life, he knows little more than we do about his future or the future of Heroes.
"In the beginning we all wanted to find out where our characters were going," he says. "Now I've not only come to realize the reality — that we're not going to find out things — but I'm having fun with it."
Born in Chile, Cabrera grew up in London, where he studied acting. He moved to Los Angeles only a year ago. Two months in, he landed Heroes.
"I feel lucky," he said, quickly adding that he's been an actor for eight years. "But this is new — I've never been in something so huge and that has gotten such a big reaction. That's exciting."
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/tv/4506574.html" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>