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A very funny Interview with Kristen and Hayden on November 19th about Heroes. Enjoy.

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By TVGuide – This is our kinda hostage crisis! Heroes went on location to the beach at San Pedro, California, to shoot a scene (airing tonight, 9 pm/ET, on NBC) in which Company men Mohinder (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and Bob (Stephen Tobolosky) plan to swap Claire (Hayden Panettiere) for Bob’s daughter Elle (Kristen Bell), who is being held by Claire’s pop HRG. (Jack Coleman). Got that? The chick exchange will lead to a deadly climax — one prophesied in an Isaac Mendez painting — but right now Panettiere and Bell just wanna have fun. We sat down with these two real-life pals for a seaside chitchat.

TVGuide.com: This is the first time Claire and Elle are in a scene together — the meeting of the hot blonde babes!
Kristen Bell: Yes, it’s the highly anticipated standoff millions are waiting to see! I dressed for the occasion.
Hayden Panettiere: And I — what else is new? — am in my cheerleading outfit. It really disappointed me because Kristen’s in heels and a cool designer outfit. They dress you nice at the Company.
Bell: This is what I wear to the office to kill people. But I wish I was in the cheerleader outfit.
Panettiere: Would they notice if we swapped? It could be like Parent Trap! But Kristen’s not too coordinated. She keeps zapping people and falling over.
Bell: That’s because they’ve got me zapping people in high heels! I look like I’m in a comedy sketch!
Panettiere: Save it, honey. Last season, I had to do a dive out of a window and then do a tuck ‘n’ roll — all in 4-inch-heels, OK? It was easy.

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Your character Elle is a bit of a change for you…
BELL: She’s definitely a vixen, which is much different from what I’m used to playing. I’m familiar with playing tough and sassy—being more of a sexy vixen is nerve-wracking because I’m like, “What if nobody thinks it’s sexy?” [Laughs] They give me a lot to play with as far as the dialogue. Elle is one of the few characters on the show, I think, who right when you meet her she is supremely confident with her power. She loves her power. She is almost on the verge of being addicted to her power. What she can do is a game to her.

Would you classify her as a hero or a villain?
BELL: Somewhere in between. I’ve read a couple of scripts now and she seems to go one way or the other depending on the episode. One of the great things about “Heroes” is all the different shades of gray with the characters. Because everybody seems to just be trying to do what’s right, but you never really know who’s got it right because everybody is keeping secrets. Elle definitely has secrets. She starts to reveal them surely but slowly. She wavers between good and evil, but is definitely doing what she feels is right. I have ties to Peter and his amnesia, and then I have ties to HRG and Claire as well.

Do you have your eye on any of the guys—or ladies—romantically?
BELL: I believe there is definitely something in the works, though I don’t know how far it will go. Elle feels like she has a romantic connection to everybody, because she’s just a little vixen. She leaves all her doors open. [Laughs] That’s not a bad-looking cast, so I’d take any of them.

Between “Heroes,” “Veronica Mars” and the much-delayed “Fanboys” flick, you’re pretty much the “It” girl of geeks.
BELL: I’m blushing. [Giggles] The “geek” world—and I say that lovingly—has in the last couple years turned Hollywood on its head as far as how it caters. I think that has a lot to do with the Internet. Fanboys know how to use the Internet to their advantage. Because Hollywood has come to rely on the Internet, the fanboys have become the tastemakers. I’m ultimately flattered that I’m choosing projects that they’re into and hope I can continue to. I think it’s great that it has become cool to be a geek!

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Another interview about Heroes…

One of the great things about Heroes is that we’ll never run out of people to talk to. They keep adding new characters, and so much happens that we can always interview the old ones again. Kristen Bell is one of the new ones. She came on with her eletro-Highlander/Emperor power looking for Peter Petrelli, but nothing much happened there. Surely, more is to come.

Crave Online: So, does Elle have a connection to Peter Petrelli? Does she work for the company? Do you know?
Kristen Bell: I have a lot of information about Peter’s past. She has ties to HRG and to Claire. 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. 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 in trying to embrace these confusing abilities and being very conflicted as to how they should be using them. Elle is not that way at all. She very much enjoys her power and enjoys the emotional power it gives her over other people.

Crave Online: If she’s got all these issues, what will Elle’s strengths be?
Kristen Bell: Oh wow, determination. She’s a very fierce and intense personality. When she wants something, she wants it and she wants it now which I think is good when you’re working with the good guys and is really bad when you’re working with the bad guys. I think that’s what she’ll kind of ping-pong in-between. She has an inability to decipher between right and wrong. That’s what makes her so interesting. She always thinks what she’s doing is right but it’s because she was raised by the company and not by a normal family that you’ll sympathize with her. I certainly hope you’ll sympathize with her in trying to understand how her childhood really messed her up. Then hopefully she can get a little bit of redemption.

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The “Veronica Mars” alum—who’ll make her debut as the mysterious Elle on Monday, Oct. 22 at 9 p.m./8c on NBC—gave us a little inside scoop about her vixen of a character, her hero connections and her dream face-off with bad guy Sylar.

So how did you end up actually being on the show?
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 hope that one day I could be a part of it. It was the ultimate flattery when they said they might have something for me to do.

Was it hard to jump in to such an already established cult show? Or were you welcomed with open arms?
There was anxiety and nerves certainly, but nothing about it has been hard. Every time you join a different show, it kind of feels like you’re changing schools. Like, is everyone going to like me? Is this going to be fun? Am I going to do well? The warmth that I was greeted with…it felt like I was starting a school that all my friends already went to.
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The ‘Veronica Mars’ star takes a villainous turn on NBC’s ‘Heroes’

Kristen Bell’s sassy and sardonic turn as teen sleuth Veronica Mars may have earned her the adoration of fanboys and fangirls nationwide, but for Bell, her own fan tendencies belonged to another show.

She was a “Heroes” viewer “from its premiere episode,” explained the actress during today’s “Heroes” press conference in advance of her debut as a series regular on next Monday’s episode. “I joked with the writers that ‘Heroes’ was always the water-cooler conversation at ‘Veronica Mars’ on set, and they had said in many of their writers’ circles, ‘Veronica Mars’ was the water-cooler conversation at ‘Heroes.’

“It was ultimate flattery when they came forward and said, ‘We might have something for you to do.’”

Although now that Bell is joining the “Heroes” cast for a 13-episode stint (with the possibility of more to come), one thing she won’t be doing (at least, on screen) is flattering the show’s heroic characters, as her part as the mysterious Elle has the 27-year-old starlet moving close to the dark side.

“It’s been so much fun,” said Bell of Elle. “I have been crossing my fingers in hopes of getting a job soon where I could play someone who was, as Tim [Kring, series creator] likes to call it, ‘a little off’ or perhaps didn’t have the brightest and shiniest of intentions. I think the depth at which they’ve written Elle…she’s so conflicted and comes across as such a vixen, it’s so much fun to play with.”

And beyond general talk of twisted motives and dangerous methods, Kring himself joined in the discussion to explain to fans how exactly Elle will fit into the larger mythology of “Heroes,” saying, “This character is tied to this Company that we have talked about for the last year of the show, that Claire’s father was involved with. And so one of the ideas was that this character was 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 has.”
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