Interviews Conducted by Robert J. Beck

And I sat over the holidays watching it and staying up until 3:00 in the morning. And I remember sitting on my bed and thinking, wow, this would be the TV show that I'd like to work on. And as luck would have it two years later I'm here. So it’s like - I'm having a lot of fun right now.

And is it any different for you Robert from other shows you've worked on?

Robert: Honestly no. I just feel like it’s just a different family than the last one but it’s a great family. And it just fits like a glove right away. And that’s just a great feeling when you come onto a set and it’s a really comfortable feeling that it’s well-oiled machine. People were very excited to go back to work for this now fourth season. And to be a part of it is it’s just a really good feeling. I think the more I do the more I realize that really good things - really good people work on shows, it’s not that different. The content will be different but the work ethic is the same and that's a really comfortable feeling. Even between features and television I find anymore it’s kind of a similar feeling. Once you know you’re in and they like you and you like them it’s a really great ride.

What’s it like for you working with the special effects on Heroes?

Robert: I think that that’s - that that’s the same on any show - that’s - a movie or TV. That’s - you know they know what they’re doing so you just kind of go along for the ride. Here put your hand this way, put your, you know, turn your body this way. Okay now we green screen, don't move. I mean you feel like a can of soup sometimes. But you know it’s worth it because in the end when you see it you go whoa, that was pretty cool.

And would you mind both telling us about your powers; what kind of powers your characters are going to have next season?

Ray: My powers are supersonic speed, a little bit like Daphne’s in Season 3. And with about - with this speed I'm also the knife fellow as well and able to utilize that skill, you know, you know, I see Edgar as a man who can throw many knives in one shot and he has the speed to do that. And plus with the acrobatics and the martial arts sort of, you know, circus-y martial arts acrobatics, you know, he - and I utilize that with the character. So it’s fun to actually play the character with speed but actually get to slow everything down for precision, you know, which is really nice. You know, we do things at real time, then when we come to do some as a I say to Milo, dancing - when we get to do some of the fight scenes together, you know, it’s nice to be able to really, you know, play it out and have a bit of fun with it. Yeah, I'm having a laugh.

Robert: I'll answer another question that you haven't asked; it’s sort of in tandem with the answer to this one. One of the reasons why I - one of the reasons why I came up with the idea to sort of do a smattering of a dialect accent work with this character being sort of mostly Irish, a little bit of English, a little bit of Scottish, taking a cue from Robert Shaw in Jaws was I wanted to - I wanted to sound like somebody - what I would call from the old world. And one of the oldest things in this world besides any one country is our planet and Earth. And my power - Samuel’s power is that he can move not the planet Earth but he can move Earth. He can move dirt for lack of a better word. And I wanted that grounded feeling, that sort of old world thing which I guess if I literally wanted to go old world I would say I'm going to speak Roman or Greek. But I didn't want to go that old. I wanted to go something that you feel like is still very romantic and still very passionate and that comes from the ground. And when I think about you guys on that side of the pond I always think about something that’s really, really old world and as well as being able to - the power of being able to move not heaven but parts of Earth.

I must just say how good your accent in Prison Break was because before this call I never heard you in anything else. And I really thought that was just your natural accent; it was that fluent.

Robert: Thank you. I did a film once with Chris Walken and I was trying to get chummy with him and he and I played the same part in a Tennessee Williams play which was a Southern - Tennessee Williams set it in the South. I did it actually over in London at the National Sweet Bird of Youth. But right before I went over there to rehearse I was doing this movie with him and I knew he had played the same part so I said hey Chris, you know, like what'd you do? Did you go down South? I'm about to go to New Orleans and soak up the accent and drive over to Florida. And he looked at me like I was just the dumbest actor on Earth. And he said no I didn't work with a dialect coach. I just did - and sorry I don't do a very good Chris Walken but he took this long pause, he said well I did just like movie talk. And I was like movie talk? He said, you know, yeah, you just kind of talk like this and all of a sudden it gets kind of Southern. And I went, yeah, exactly, man, it’s like if you want to get really specific you can - I could have worked with my dialect coach and said this guy is from so and so Alabama and let’s make him this. But I didn't, you know, I just kind of went with it. I got more letters and calls from people saying you know you sound exactly like your from Alabama. So it was a big lesson to learn from that.