Heroes: Cast & Creators Live at the Paley Center

The executive producer and cast of Heroes talk about the atmosphere on set, the physically challenging scenes, and what each actor would want as their superpower. This William S. Paley Television Festival evening honors Heroes, a fantasy drama about seemingly ordinary people all over the world who find out they have superpowers. Barbara Dixon (director, The Paley Center for Media, Los Angeles) welcomes the audience and introduces Tony Potts (weekend co-anchor, Access Hollywood), who moderates the following panelists: series creator/executive producer Tim Kring; and cast members Santiago Cabrera (Isaac Mendez), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Mohinder Suresh), Jack Coleman (HRG), Greg Grunberg (Matt Parkman), Hayden Panettiere (Claire Bennet), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura), Milo Ventimiglia (Peter Petrelli), Adrian Pasdar (Nathan Petrelli), Ali Larter (Niki Sanders), Noah Gray-Cabey (Micah Sanders), and Leonard Roberts (D.L. Hawkins). Topics discussed include the casting of the show, when the cast knew the show would be special, the summer camp-like atmosphere on set, how the writing process works, how Kring developed a list of powers for the characters, the most physically challenging scenes to film, complaints about the show’s violence, and what each actor would like to have as a real-life superpower.