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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Oh but here’s a plus: Milo’s mother came to the SDCC!!! So check out what she said about her son’s personal life later in the post.

The video where Milo’s mom appears is an interview of mature fans coming to Comic Con. She came the day before Milo so she must have been hanging around the halls herself. Cool mom, huh?

videos after the cut.

Since Milo talked at length about “GAMER” here is the official trailer. The film opens in theaters on September 4 and stars Gerard Butler.

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This weekend, Milo was at the Golden Apple Comics to sign copies of “Berserker” which he co-produced with Divide Pictures partner Russ Cundiff. The comics was created by Top Cow Productions.  “Berserker” tells about warring families who bear uncontrolled rage, a trait seemingly inherited from their Norse ancestors.

Images: INF

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Think I’m making that up?

Thanks to Grunny for posting on Twitpic. They were probably in between takes for "Heroes Volume 4: Fugitives".

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Happier times at the Petrellis, how handsome they all look! Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia) and his dad Arthur (Robert Forster) in a tux, how nice. This must be in some past event, since Peter still has the long bangs. 

But I doubt these were the good ol’ days either. Petrelli is probably onto  something, plotting his next move with war buddy Linderman. (more hi-res images after the cut)

image used with permission by NBC/ Photo: Adam Taylor

In the GN “War Buddies” the young Linderman was portrayed as someone who wanted to help heal people, but his partner Petrelli has been shady from the start. I still wonder how Linderman turned and became a villain, who actually believes he does the world good.

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On October 20, Milo went to the Burberry Re-opening of the Beverly Hills store, in this James-Dean inspired black leather jacket and marroon shirt, slicked hair and that crooked smile. Total coolness.

What does Milo say about the British fashion brand?

“I always dug what Burberry was trying to do with the classics and merging into a real modern feel,” said Milo.  “I thought it was a cool thing to come out and support.”

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Does it seem to you like Milo is a shy person? I thought he is, or maybe he’s not used to the attention of stardom yet, which is good to be kept grounded like that. But oh, did you notice how he evaded the question about Hayden, and his face went sour? When you’re out in the spotlight all the time like Milo is, you really have to guard what little privacy you have. And that’s hard.

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The set of photos from Zimbio show Hayden and Milo separately, and presumably it’s the same time. Milo seems really intent on hiding, walking with his head bowed most of the time. He does look cute in his fedora hat and red plaid.

Pictures of Hayden Panettiere at Jenni Kayne. Pictures of Milo Ventimiglia at Jenni Kayne.

Incidentally, if you want a daily dish of Hayden Panettiere, check out Hayden Rocks, the blog is back live and some fans are already there.

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It also had a weird way of pulling the viewer (me) in, while keeping the stomach stay knotted the whole time. You know it’s not going to end well, but you want to know just how sick and vile the characters can go. So you watch till the end, and then you feel sick and relieved when it’s over.

“Pathology” revolves around Dr. Ted Grey (Milo Ventimiglia), a new Pathology intern at the University Hospital in Philadelphia who cross hairs with a group of psychopathic residents and their sick game of committing the perfect crime. The rest must then figure out how this crime was committed, and the winner goes to the unsolved murder. Fascinated with playing god, Grey finds out too late how deep he is in the muck, and the only way out was to commit the final perfect murder.

Milo Ventimiglia delivered a steady performance as the morally gray doctor, but the man of the hour would have to be Michael Weston. As antagonist Dr. Jake Gallo, deranged leader of the midnight cult, Weston stole the scene every time. Unfortunately, the remainder of the cast didn’t get to shine that much, including Alyssa Milano, as Ted’s fiancee, whose “shining moment” was a full body replica of herself on the autopsy table. I really thought that was her! Props to the production and make-up teams.

The 93-minute film lives up to its R rating with its sexuality and violence, which left nothing to the imagination. One interesting extra to the DVD is the feature on creating the perfect murder, as it shows behind-the-scenes from the movie. Those were cool and explained how the production design and make-up were able to get the dead people looking as real as possible. The feature also showed footage of the cast and their trip to the LA County morgue, as their “education” into the world of criminal investigation unity, and at one time they saw more than 150 corpses. If you think that’s gross, Milo Ventimiglia came away from all that realizing how important taking care of himself and his loved ones are. If you’re into CSI, crime investigations and medical mysteries, you will really like the special features. Alyssa Milano even shared how they got to create a plastic replica of her full body, but you’ll have to watch the movie (if you haven’t yet) to see why she needed one.

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The present and future collide in episode 304, as revealed by an IGN interview of Milo Ventimiglia.

Here’s what we now know:

• It’s now five to seven years in the future.
• Future Sylar is no longer the boogieman, and he’s friends with future Peter! (Ha, I didn’t see that coming)
• More people have flying abilities. (Does this mean Mohinder’s tests were a success?)
• Patriarch Arthur Petrelli is a megalomania. He wants to be the most powerful (and guess who of his “sons” take after him?)

Read the IGN interview to find out how Milo Ventimiglia switches from being Present Peter to Future Peter to Peter-in-a-guy. As Milo admits, “Oh, it gets so confusing!”

To get your head in the game, get scoops on the rest of “Heroes” volume 3 episodes here.

File photo (episode 302): NBC/Chris Haston

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