In an interview given after this week's season finale of Heroes, Adrian Pasdar dished on what fans can expect next season.
Is Zachary Quinto gone for good? How does the actor feel about the show rarely actually killing off main characters?
Get the scoop from Pasdar by following the preceding link. Does his evaluation of the Nathan/Sylar dichotomy make you more or less excited for volume five?
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The fourth season of Heroes will only be comprised of 18-20 episodes.
And that's quite alright with Adrian Pasdar!
"If things start shifting around, they can always add more at the end, but doing 25 episodes this year was nearly 11 months of work," Pasdar told TV Guide. "We love the work, but in order for the quality to be maintained, you can't just keep grinding it out.
"The pacing will be a little better - we were sometimes shooting three episodes at once, and there's no way that something doesn't slip through the cracks. It just gets crazy."
We agree. We just hope Nathan is around to see next season!
In the following video, Adrian Pasdar and Masi Oka talk Heroes.
Among the points covered by the actors:
Watch and enjoy:
This isn't exactly a major Heroes spoiler at this point. We all known Adrian Pasdar is returning in season three as Nathan Petrelli.
It takes more than a gun shot to slow this politician down!
Here's a look at a new Heroes promo, starring this beloved character:
At this point, it's not a major Heroes spoiler to reveal that Adrian Pasdar returns in season three as Nathan. Gun shot be damned!
The actor recently chatted with BuddyTV about the upcoming season, focusing on his role in it. See for yourself:
Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia were recently spotted out in London after dinner together at Nobu. It's nice to see the pretend brothers getting along in real life, isn't it?
Ventimiglia also recently told People that he's psyched about the upcoming movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
"May 22, I will be there," the Heroes star simply said.
Might this be a Heroes spoiler that Nathan lives through his gun shot?
The actor who portrays the former politician recently teased season three to Entertainment Weekly.
"Season 3 is going to be very interesting to see what happens and how they're able to take the lessons that we've learned, and really tell the story that they want to tell without losing an audience," said Adrian Pasdar. "Because the goal at the end of the day is to have as many people watch the show as you can."
Reconciling what writers and fans want has proven to be challenging, Pasdar admits, especially because Heroes is "complex" and has "many layers."
"It's not stupid TV, it's not a reality program," Pasdar said. "It actually is complex. There's many layers to Heroes. [Creator Tim Kring is] not averse to risk-taking, as he has proven in the episodes of season 2."
Let's all just pray the writers' strike is soon resolved and we'll get a chance to see if Pasdar is correct or not.
As we sit and pray that the writers' strike comes to an end soon, we wanted to share the following interview with Adrian Pasdar.
The Heroes star spoke with TV Guide about tonight's big episode, along with how the season has shaped up so far...
TVGuide.com: This week, we're going back four months ago to see what happened after the gang defeated Sylar. Can you tell us how Nathan and Peter survived?
Adrian Pasdar: We filmed this stuff a month or six weeks ago, and we spent a lot of time about 30 feet above the cement floor of Stage 7. It'll knock your socks off in fact, it did knock one of my shoes off, during the stunt. It picks up right where the finale left off, and there's a good deal of explanation as to what's been happening, why I see that face in the mirror periodically.
TVGuide.com: Nathan has gone through a major change last season he was so fixated on his public image, and now his priorities have clearly shifted.
Pasdar: The events that happened between the finale of last year and the beginning of the season this year altered his perspective on who he was and his ability to impact people around him. He lost his way a little bit he had more of an inner search for what was important, and he ends up losing all the things that he held very close to him. It's an attempt for him to regain not only the elements of his past but what the pieces are that made up who he was.
All of those things kind of got fractured in the finale they exploded, in a way. [Laughs] I've missed working with Milo Ventimiglia our paths have been divergent, have been separate. But we do get back together in the last few episodes that we've filmed. They're a reunion of sorts.
TVGuide.com: Anybody in the cast you'd like to work with but haven't had a chance to yet?
Pasdar: I've worked with just about everybody except for Jack [Coleman, who plays Noah Bennet, aka HRG] one of the guys I have a great relationship with but unfortunately I'm not able to have much screentime with. In fact, we share a daughter [Claire]. He's probably the only one, other than James Kyson Lee [who plays Ando].
He flies through the stratosphere as failed presidential hopeful Nathan Petrelli, one of NBC's Heroes.
But off set, actor Adrian Pasdar can often be found in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on his 42-foot sailboat.
"I come out here, usually by myself ," says Pasdar, stretching out on deck under his fully unfurled sail. "I go out 100 miles and will just stay out a couple of days to be away from Hollywood."
But below deck in the cabins, there is ample evidence of favorite passengers: a bed overflowing with stuffed Finding Nemo fish belongs to his sons with Natalie Maines, one of the Dixie Chicks: Jackson Slade, 6, and Beckett Finn, 3.
More than his hearty Heroes paychecks, which helped pay for the $200,000-plus vessel, Pasdar values his free time. The 42-year-old is looking forward to sailing his sons all the way to Tahiti.
For that reason, the prospect of leaving Heroes last season didn't provoke panic. In the finale, his character seemed to explode high above the clouds with brother Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) in his arms.
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Can't get enough of Heroes? Here's your chance to see how the cast interacts when the cameras aren't rolling.
The NBC cameras, that is.
Adrian Pasdar has been videotaping random "snapshots into the life of what we do when we're not filming," as he puts it - and has posted a lot of the footage on YouTube under the name "Buckshotwon."
The videos range from simple (such as Hayden Panettiere shopping for shoes in Paris) to stylized (Milo Ventimiglia and Jack Coleman doing an improv Pellegrino commercial during an airport layover).
"There's a cute one of Hayden at the Georges V Paris playing hide and seek with the camera," Pasdar said to TV Guide says of a piece filmed during the Heroes World Tour.
He also pointed to a shot through the sunroof of a limo featuring Ali Larter (seen below). No surprise that anything starring this beauty would be considered a favorite.
"My stuff's really silly," said Greg Grunberg of the videos featuring him. "That's a side of me people don't really see on the show."
Check out these behind-the-scenes looks at our Heroes video archive. Vote on your favorites today.
