And to my delight, Ray is a fan of the series. 

“I first saw HEROES a couple of years ago and I fell in love with the show and got really excited,” Ray Park starts the interview in his British accent. “I remember a couple of years ago I said to myself if I was going to do a show this would be the show that I would want to work on and now here I am working on the show. I’m a big fan of the show so I’m having a lot of fun being on it. It’s great!”

But really, all we know about Ray’s character is that he is a knife-wielding speedster. What more can he tell us about Edgar?

“He’s part of the carnival where everyone has special abilities and special powers. I have supersonic speed, a little like Daphne in Season Two, but I have acrobatics and martial arts and knife throwing thrown in.” Ray also hinted about a back-story where Edgar killed his old girlfriend, and you’ve got one scary dude.

Ray revealed that he was handpicked for his role on Heroes. The casting director Natalie Hart needed someone like Ray to play a part. And Ray’s response to them? “I’m glad you guys asked me to come in and I’m a really big fan of the show and I would be do this at the drop of a hat.” And now we have Edgar, one mean villain on the Carnival. I can tell that Ray is a real fan of the show, and he is very excited to be working with the team. He also let on that his role got a little bigger from what they expected when they first asked him in, and yet, he doesn’t exactly know where his character is headed (like everyone else says of their characters!).

“I’m really excited but at the same time it’s a little frustrating because I want to know. I started at the beginning and I don’t know what the end is going to be. I always feel what my ending is — I’m going to be killed off. I’m preparing for it and my fans say why do always say you’re going to get killed off. And I said because it always happens to me (laughter).”

Maybe you can write the script of how you die, I mused. “If I’m going to die, it’s going to be great death”

But I have a feeling he isn’t going to die in tonight’s premiere (oops! SPOILER), because Ray tells me they’re working on a back story with Sprint. (more after the cut!)

“At the moment myself, Robert and Dawn are working with Sprint and doing something for commercial breaks and webisodes.”

Now, isn’t that cool! There wasn’t much lead over the summer about who the Carnival people are.

“It’s just more of a back story on building the character and the trailers. And it sort of ties into what we have done before. There’s a lot of questions for my character. Are we headed in the right direction? We’ve been hiding, we’ve been doing this for so long. Do we want to have others involved or do we want to expose ourselves to others around? Are we on the right path? Because I’m not too sure about where we’re going.”

Aha, so that’s definitely something fans can wait for online!

“Yes, it does. I think the carnival’s gotten a lot bigger. They all expected it to be big basically, “Ray Park aka Edgar adds. “Everyone is really pumped up about what we’re doing, I mean [Robert Knepper] is a leader, he’s a leading man, he’s a phenomenal actor, and to be in his presence and have scenes with him is unbelievable.”

“Everyone is buzzing about the new season and I just realized last night, oh my goodness it’s coming out. I started to get really nervous. I’m really excited about. I’ve got to watch myself, because… and I’m liking it!”

Ray Park would be watching, wow, and we’ll be watching him ace it with the carnival. Tonight, on NBC at 8pm, HEROES returns for its fourth season with a two-hour premiere.

And tomorrow, we’ll talk about HEROES again, and Ray Park one more time for the second half of my interview. You’ll get a feel for that cool scene he had with Milo Ventimiglia. Meantime…

HEROES IS BACK!

Images: NBC/Chris Haston

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The first episode is called "Private Mills", with a background story of how 50 marines recruits are injected with an experimental serum to aid in apprehending people with "special" abilities. Private Rachel Mills is interrogated by Angela Petrelli (Christine Rose) about the serum.

The Heroes’ webisode "The Recruit" stars on Monday, December 15, at NBC/Heroes.

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“Going Postal” is the first of several Heroes online exclusive shorts that will feature other humans with special powers. In this webisode, mailman Echo Ed Mille is being pursued by the Company for his supersonic scream. One of the agents chasing him is a constrictor, one who can crush bones with his grip. But De Mille demonstrates his fatal abilities on human non-power agent. Now it doesn’t yet say why he’s being hunted down, except for “bag and tag” perhaps, but these two agents sure have lousy and crude technique! They could just have stunned him with something. But then the story ends there, I guess.

What’s your score card for this episode? I give it a 3/5.

Next episode of “Going Postal” is titled The Houseguest and airs on the web beginning Monday July 21, 2008.

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New episodes of Heroes, exclusively to be shown on the web, are surely going to make us itch for more of the hit show come Fall… or totally get lost. It’s easy to get confused with the story of Heroes especially if you haven’t been following the saga closely. There are the graphic novels, now webisodes, and the real deal in the fall, “Villains”. However these mediums do tell a full novel, albeit with many chapters and arcs, about people with abilities, and the others who hunt them. In a nutshell, it’s really that simple.

The first webisode “Going Postal” centers around a postal worker with extraordinary powers. Of course The Company wants him. Christine Rose as Angela Petrelli plays a special role in this first webisode that stars Kiko Ellsworth (Echo) and Rebeka Montoya (Gina).

Check out a behind-the-scenes look of the webisode after the jump. Tim Kring explains why there are many chapters of Heroes.

The webisode “Postal” will begin airing on Monday July 14, 2008 at 3p.m. EDT and will be the first of a trilogy.

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Season 3 “Volume 3: Villains” will return on September 15. Fans will be treated to 3 hours of Heroes night. The first hour is devoted to a recap of Season 2, and the premiere is a solid two hours of great TV.

But NBC has more good news for us!

New chapters of webisodes for “Heroes” will air on NBC.com starting in July. Each webisode chapter will also weave online with on-air creative to give us a richer entertainment experience.

Now that’s what we want to hear. We have been Heroes-starved for too long…

source: NBC

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