Are you getting more action scripts because of Heroes?
“I don’t get to get scripts because I work on a TV show. (Laughing) Six years. You know, I’m getting ready to start reading a bit again for hiatus movies and I think that we all hope that we’re going to get enough time off. All the actors would love to be able to do movies this hiatus but the scheduling is really difficult so you have to go, ‘How lucky am I to be in this position with Heroes?’ Who knows if I’d be getting these offers if I hadn’t had the exposure that I’ve had on this show? So for me it’s like I look forward to reading things if not this year, it’s next year, but today is great.”
Plus, you don’t know if your character’s going to killed off. They like to kill off people.
“You never know on our show, you really don’t, and it’s a format that works. I was thinking about this because people ask us that all the time if that makes us nervous and I get bored really easily. I’m not on a normal one hour where I have to be in a hospital five days a week, seventeen hours a day. I feel like on Heroes, it jumps genres. It gives me really, really cool, different storylines to get to do, and on top of that add the element where we don’t know exactly where the characters are going and they may not choose to keep me in the whole season. I think that that just keeps everyone really living in the present. I think it keeps underlying current of kind of truth to the show, and again I think we’re all happy to work on it. We’ll also be happy to move on when it’s the time to go.”
Are you a fan of horror movies?
“I hate being scared. I hate it. I remember when I was younger and one of my sister’s friends hid in the laundry room to scare me, and I almost panicked and screamed at the top of my lungs. It’s an emotion – I don’t like that lack of control. But I’m actually, though, I was talking to my boyfriend and I think that I wouldn’t mind doing it in the theater. I think it would be fun to go and experience that rush now that I’m not worried about people crawling into my house and murdering me at night. I have my dog and my boyfriend to get them!”
What made you want to come into an established film in the horror genre?
“Well, I’ve worked in the genre before with Final Destination I, II, and House on Haunted Hill and there’s something about these movies that people just enjoy. I feel like in the beginning of my career, I took things too seriously. I wasn’t able to really enjoy the idea that people kind of like some of my movies or whatever. I was just like, ‘I should be doing Shakespeare!’ But in truth there’s such an amazing feeling about being in a movie that people love to watch and that’s what this is. This is just indulgent and it’s fun.
We were down in Mexico drinking margaritas. We show up on set, shoot ‘em up, we had some great scenes, and it’s just fun. I think that especially in my life, I will always try to be seeking that form of balance. It was a great opportunity. They came to me and I read it and at that point I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to do it or not, and I was on vacation and originally it was maybe going to be be Jill Valentine. They weren’t sure whether it was going to be Claire Redfield or Jill Valentine, and there was a restaurant called Valentines that I was dining at that night and I was like, ‘Ohhh, I have to do it!’”
Do you enjoy doing ensemble work or would you rather have the spotlight?
“I mean, with Resident Evil, and it’s definitely Milla’s show, and for her I just I love being able to hop in at the end of this. I feel like it’s an established kind of series or I guess coupling of movies, however you say it. So for this, it was just a perfect opportunity and I decided to work with them. And with the show, you know, I go for characters and wherever that lies within the format of TV, theatre, film, turn me on. Make me think, me want, make me cry. Wherever that leads me to.”
The Comic Con audience really showed their appreciation for Heroes.
“Wasn’t that wonderful? The panel was amazing. I was so excited to be up there. You always get really nervous before you get up. It takes me a little bit to settle down. My heart’s racing. People have just really responded to the show. It’s just so positive and fun, and intelligent conversations and questions and responses. It was nice.”
