TV'S HOTTEST SHOW FINALLY GIVES THE CHEERLEADER A BOYFRIEND
By MAXINE SHEN
(Excerpt from New York Post Article)
By MAXINE SHEN
(Excerpt from New York Post Article)
October 21, 2007 -- The big news this season on NBC's superhero series "Heroes" isn't that Peter Petrelli survived the explosion. Or that Sylar's still alive and killin'. Or even that Hiro Nakamura can't bring himself to leave feudal Japan.
Instead, the hot news is that there's a viable love story involving everybody's favorite indestructible cheerleader and the new guy, West Rosen, played by Nicholas D'Agosto.
Click here for photos of the cast. Can we say: It's about time?
While romantic plot lines are dime a dozen on other series, this is the first time that "Heroes" has attempted a relationship that isn't clearly doomed from the start. And Claire isn't slumming: her boyfriend also has his super power. 10 Questions For Heroes
The happy new couple met in 11th grade biology class. Shortly afterwards, West started spending his days aggressively questioning an on-the-lamb Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) about her desire to stay under the radar and literally hovering outside her window at night – some might call it stalking -- trying to see what she was hiding.
So, Nick, is that really an appropriate way to court a girl?
"I can't tell you how many people have told me, 'You're such a weird stalker, I never knew this about you Nick,' " the 27-year old Omaha native says with a laugh. "It's probably not appropriate to do that, but West can do it so easily, why wouldn't he?
So, Nick, is that really an appropriate way to court a girl?
"I can't tell you how many people have told me, 'You're such a weird stalker, I never knew this about you Nick,' " the 27-year old Omaha native says with a laugh. "It's probably not appropriate to do that, but West can do it so easily, why wouldn't he?
"If you could just fly in and take a peek somewhere and fly right out," he muses, "I'd probably do that more often then I think I'd like to admit."
Not that he's ever had any first-hand experience lurking in the bushes outside girls' windows at night, he adds.
"I think what West did was innocent enough, but at the same time, shows that this is a guy who is willing to cross the line of what is appropriate if he feels that it serves his purpose. He's not going to shy away from what he can do," says D'Agosto.
In his case, what he can do is fly.
It's a power he shares with power-denying hero Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), a fact that has led fans to ponder if West is somehow related - by blood - to the Petrellis.
D'Agosto, who gets to log time in a harness against a blue screen for the first time in his career as he "flies" on the show, is mum about that possibility, saying only, "What's better to look at is what [the flying] means in the larger scheme of 'Heroes.'
"You'll start to see that the people that possess powers are not necessarily the only ones who have those powers. The writers are talking about genetics so much that it would be odd if powers never repeated and that's something being introduced through my character.
"The name of this season is 'Generations' and I think that's very indicative of what the writers are trying to do, which is establish the heritage of what these powers are," D'Agosto says.
Not that he's ever had any first-hand experience lurking in the bushes outside girls' windows at night, he adds.
"I think what West did was innocent enough, but at the same time, shows that this is a guy who is willing to cross the line of what is appropriate if he feels that it serves his purpose. He's not going to shy away from what he can do," says D'Agosto.
In his case, what he can do is fly.
It's a power he shares with power-denying hero Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), a fact that has led fans to ponder if West is somehow related - by blood - to the Petrellis.
D'Agosto, who gets to log time in a harness against a blue screen for the first time in his career as he "flies" on the show, is mum about that possibility, saying only, "What's better to look at is what [the flying] means in the larger scheme of 'Heroes.'
"You'll start to see that the people that possess powers are not necessarily the only ones who have those powers. The writers are talking about genetics so much that it would be odd if powers never repeated and that's something being introduced through my character.
"The name of this season is 'Generations' and I think that's very indicative of what the writers are trying to do, which is establish the heritage of what these powers are," D'Agosto says.
