Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2007-08-20

Interview:
Ordinary people with extraordinary abilities link a group of complete strangers that may determine the future of the world when Heroes: Season 1 comes to DVD and HD DVD August 28, 2007 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The most acclaimed and addictive new series of the 2006-2007 television season. We were able to sit down with Hayden Panetteire (Claire Bennett) from the very successful series -- which will be starting again September 24.

If there’s a superpower that you think would benefit, you know, you as a young Hollywood stars or other young Hollywood stars, if there’s a superpower that would benefit them, or which one will benefit you guys that most?

Hayden Panettiere: The ability to be invisible.

Really? Why is that?

Hayden Panettiere: Because I think, you know, obviously we can blame most of it on the people who are doing the bad things that they’re not supposed to be doing. But, you know, at the same time when you’ve got cameras in your face all the time, it leaves you no room to mess up even slightly and things get turned around on you. So if I could walk out my door or drive my car out my door, and not be followed by paparazzi, I’d be a very happy person.

With everything that you've gone through this past year on the show, how has that changed the way you view what people have had to go through working on like a weekly series is like this?

Hayden Panettiere: Well, it’s definitely, you know, I would have had no idea what to expect. I did do ‘Ally McBeal’s first season but that was, you know, a half-hour show and -- was it a half-hour show? I’m…

I think it was an hour.

Hayden Panettiere: I was 12 – I’m like, okay. It was an hour show but it was, you know, it’s just a different - totally different groove, and I wasn’t in it everyday and wasn’t, you know, one of the major characters.

But it’s been crazy. But this show is unlike probably any show that anyone shoots, because we shoot it like a movie, and it’s like we’re doing a full-length feature film everyday. So in that aspect -- my past feature film career has most definitely prepared me for that.

But there’s no place I’d rather be. I love my cast, I love my crew, so…