Indestructible and mysterious
On Wednesday, NBC hosted a press conference call with two cast members from their hit drama "Heroes", Hayden Panettiere (aka Claire Bennet, the nigh indestructible cheerleader), and Eric Roberts (the mysterious Mr. Thompson, former colleague of Claire's adoptive father at Primatech Paper), and CBR News was on the scene.
Roberts, a relative newcomer to the powerhouse that is "Heroes", said he couldn't have been made more welcome. "Hayden's one of the most welcoming cast members in the trailer of everybody," Roberts said. "When I got there, she and Greg Grunberg were like, 'Hi! Do you know how long you're gonna live yet?' And we hang out and we talk trash and we have a great time."
Roberts has had a long and distinguished career, but it wasn't until recently that he found the coveted teenybopper audience. "It's a combination I think of 'Heroes' and a couple of big hit music videos," Roberts said. "The Mariah Carey video and the Killers video. They've given me a whole new audience under 15 that I didn't have before. I thought I was really famous up till I got 'Heroes', and I had no idea how much more famous I could get overnight." (excerpt from Comic Book Resources)
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