VERONICA MARS INVADES HEROES TOMORROW NIGHT

VERONICA MARS INVADES HEROES TOMORROW NIGHT

VERONICA MARS STAR KRISTEN BELL SHOWS UP ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF HEROES AND SHE WILL HAVE A POWER THOUGH WE DON'T KNOW IF SHE IS GOOD OR BAD.

HERE IS THE ARTICLE FROM IGN THAT IS AN INTERVIEW WITH BELL ON HER APPEARANCE TOMORROW NIGHT.

October 19, 2007 - This coming Monday, Kristen Bell makes her eagerly awaited debut on Heroes and this week IGN participated in a conference call with Bell and Heroes creator/executive producer Tim Kring to discuss Bell joining the show. Bell explained that before becoming a cast member of Heroes "I was a huge fan of the show. I watched it from its premiere episode. And I joked with the writers that Heroes was the water cooler conversation for Veronica Mars on set. And they had said that in many individual writer circles, Veronica Mars was the water cooler conversation at Heroes." As for how she came to join the show, Bell explained "I certainly put feelers out there during Comic-Con and let them know what a fan I was of the show, I think with the secret hopes that one day I could be a part of it. And then it was the ultimate flattery when they came forward and said 'We might have something for you to do.'" Kring noted that Bell's character Elle was not created specifically for Bell, explaining "The character was created before we cast Kristen. And we had been talking about the character for a while and thinking about the character for a while. But when you do cast an actor, especially one that you're familiar with their work and has as much personality as Kristen has, you try to tailor the character a little closer to who the actor is. So it's hard to know when one starts to influence the other. But certainly the character was created and conceived long before we cast Kristen."

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Kristen Bell as Elle in Heroes

Asked if she was nervous joining Heroes, Bell replied "There was anxiety and nerves certainly, but nothing about it has been hard. They are some of the nicest people I've ever worked with. And having had social relationships with a few of them, I've sort of heard through the grapevine what a great job it was, not just an excellent show, but actually really fun to be a part of and an ensemble that really supports each other. And I think that to find that many good people in one setting is really hard to find. But clearly that speaks to what comes down through the grapevine, starting with Tim. And every time you join a different job or a different show it kind of feels like you're changing schools like when you're in high school. It's that kind of anxiety, like 'Is everyone going to like me? Is this going to be fun? Am I going to do well?' And the warmth that I was greeted with, it felt like I was starting a school that all my friends already went to." Kring added that because Bell had previous friendships with so many of the Heroes cast members and even some of the writing staff "She was sort of already kind of a part of the family by the time we cast her." Bell gave a hint to her character when she said that playing Elle has "been so much fun. I have been crossing my fingers in hopes that I'd get a job soon where I could play someone who was is, as Tim likes to call it, a little off or perhaps didn't have the brightest and shiniest of intentions. And I think the depth at which they've written Elle, this character, she's so conflicted and sort of comes across as such as vixen, that it's so much fun to play with." Bell was wary of saying too much, but with Kring's permission, Bell also revealed that Elle has "a lot of information about Peter's past." Kring also said of the character that "She is looking for Peter Petrelli. And I think one can assume that she finds him." Check out a scene of Kristen Bell in Heroes:

"I can't reveal her secret powers. You'll have to watch next Monday. But it's a very cool power," said Bell, adding that Elle "has ties to HRG and to Claire. And there's going to be a very interesting dynamic I think, between her and Claire as far as what is and what is not. And I think there's going to be a deeper relationship there than people are expecting. They're going to see maybe some parallels. But she also has ties to a little bit to Suresh. And she's a little messed up in the head which makes her really manipulative and always out to get what she wants. She doesn't have many boundaries which I think is the really interesting part of playing this character on this particular show because the whole first season has been about these fairly good-natured people trying to embrace these confusing abilities and being very conflicted as to how they should be using them. And Elle is not that way at all. She very much enjoys her power and enjoys the emotional power it gives her over other people." Kring also revealed "We are tying this character to this company that we have talked about for the last year on the show that Claire's father was involved with. And so one of the ideas was that this character is actually raised within the company. And it's in some ways a cautionary tale of what would happen to any of our characters had they lived with their powers their whole life the way Elle had."


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