As Heroes gears up for another day of filming,
it's Peter Petrelli who's at the heart of the action.
Is he destined to be the hero to save the world?
Transcript: Tonone Synch: Usu, Nems
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On the very beginning, we knew that Peter's journey through the show
was gonna be sort of the spine of where we were going.
Peter's a hospice nurse. He has this idea that he can fly.
Confides in his brother, this only person he trusts to tell this to because
he can't walk around New York telling people he can fly.
I've been up here all night, thinking about this!
Thinking about my destiny!
What are you doing, Pete?
It's my turn to be somebody now, Nathan!
Come on, Peter! Quit screwing around!
I think it's probably within a lot of people to want to fly.
I've had a bunch of dreams where I'm flying. It's awesome.
To pull off the spectacular and realistic look of these scenes,
the actors must work closely with both the stunts and special effects departments.
- A-Mark. - Rolling.
I'm very lucky with the cast that I have.
Most of my actors are champing at the bit to do their own stunts, and
we get them in the wires and let them do a lot of it themselves.
How you feel? Alright!
Ok, let's get Adrian set.
Wind, please!
It's nice to mix up the drama we're asked to play with
the action that we're also asked to do.
When it comes down to you hanging 40 feet in the air on a wire, that's...
not confortable.
The audience doesn't realize it,
but these hardnesses that they have to get into under the clothing,
it goes right between their legs and bounces up everything.
We don't go on that detail... but, it's uncomfortable.
It pinches in the worst places.
Don't try this at home.
It's also really rewarding when you see it, because it's real.
It's difficult stuff to shoot.
You're trying to emote and get something across and,
you know, you worry about all these different element focus, and
body positioning.
Actors are probably the greatest visual effect.
If you don't believe them, pretty much we can stop right there.
You're not gonna believe anything else.
You go with them, then it's easy to build upon... they become the foundation.
We get rid of the wires, we get rid of the green screen, and it looks fantastic.
I think it pulled off really well, I mean, basically
we were able to achieve what we want to express, because you get that energy, that
that, that panic, one brother trying to save the other.
Peter!
With the mother at the helm and two contrasting brothers,
the Petrelli Family is an unpredictable mix of power, politics and compassion.
I thought at the centre of the story was this idea of these two brothers.
The idea of one was sort a lost child,
the one who is the dreamer can't seem to
figure out what he wants to do with his life.
I need to stop living for other people, my whole life...
I have no idea what I'm suppose to do, what I'm suppose to be.
If I have a destiny of my own.
I promise you we will talk about it later, ok?
The other was the over-achieving older brother,
who was the golden boy of the family.
In a family that had secrets, to begin with.
There's something you need to know about your father's death.
He committed suicide.
What?
He committed suicide.
What's alluded to that the Petrelli father was a powerful man,
I have to say I was playing with the archetype of
kind of the Kennedy dynasty.
The father was clearly involved in some
slightly dubious activity that tainted the family.
And then the son was going to wash that all away by
running for office and becoming this big, powerful figure for the people.
As many of you might have read, my brother Peter
had an accident.
But what I've kept from the press thus far is that...
Peter barely survived a suicide attempt.
I wanted one character who wasn't completely anonymous.
Nobody's more public than a politician. And so I thought, what wouldn't be...
what wouldn't be fun to do, to have a character
who completely lived with the public eye.
Cameras, publicity and press.
And he was having to suppress this idea of the true identity.
You flew.
I what?
I flopped and you caught me.
You jumped, Peter.
It's a strange relationship between, between Peter and Nathan.
You know, here you have these, these two brothers that
raised together, family, their blood, but they have such
different views on the world.
They are a close family, they do care about one another.
It's just that at times it gets clouded as to
what's for the family and what's self-serving.
What did you possibly want so bad you had to steal it?
Never mind. I don't wanna know.
Socks.
Dad left you a fortune. What were you thinking?
You know, it's been one ridiculous stun after another with you
in the last six months. Dad's gone! Just get over it.
The scenes that they do with their mother, you believe that they're a family,
because it's real. Listen, all families do not get along,
and this one certainly doesn't get along.
Thanks a lot, mom.
It's at times hilarious and cringe-worthy to watch
the interaction between this family who are...
so disfunctional...
on so many levels, that,
it's compulsive watching.
Hi, I'm Milo Ventimiglia and you're watching Heroes.
Milo Ventimiglia was recently voted
one of the sexiest men alive by People Magazine.
His tv career began in 1995,
as "party guest nr.1" in "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air",
when he was only 18 years old.
Since then he's appeared in a host of american tv shows and movies,
before hitting the big time alongside Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa.
Helping him maintain his reputation as on-screen heart-rob,
is the Heroes wardrobe department.
Peter, when we started is the hospice nurse, you know, he was really
on scrubs in the beginning and he had that hoody and
that beige little raincoat.
The raincoat was an interesting piece because we had to rig that,
so that it would accomodate the flying, so that it really looked
beautiful when it opened and he fell.
I've kept his palette very dark as I have most.
He's very navy and brown and black,
and very clean, very, very clean lines.
And he has such an incredible body that, you know, I tried to show
his arms and his body whenever we can, but...
He sort of went from this more boyish to
evolving, I mean, certainly in that scene when he's kissing Simone.
It's like the boy has suddenly become a man,
and sort of, in your mind, becomes another character.
Nathan Petrelli is a formal guy, I mean, he really is
the politician in every sense of the word.
- What do you think? Red or blue? - I don't know. Blue?
I gonna go with red. Presidents wear red.
There is definitely a very typical, I mean,
there's a lot of navy blue and white and red.
And beautiful blues for shirts because usually every men looks beautiful in blue.
Thanks for your vote.
I was running my best friend's congressional campaign, here in Los Angeles,
so I didn't have to go too far for research,
because I was living it while I was doing it.
So, I was very lucky.
I've been trying to save the world one person at a time,
but I'm meant for something bigger.
Something important. I know it, now.
Peter takes upon himself to quit being a hospice nurse
and focus more on what it all means, what's happening between he and his brother,
discovering what these abilities are for, where do they come from.
Peter does feel like he's destined for something much larger.
And it's not gonna be his brother or his mom or anybody that's gonna stop him.
I don't think Nathan really wants to know, initially.
I tried to fly!
Would you keep your voice down?
You were there, last night I could fly, this morning, nothing.
I nearly broke my neck trying.
Well, that would have solved one of our problems.
I think Nathan views Peter as a huge threat
to his public persona and to his career,
that was the one to be elected to congress.
Who wants a crazy brother who says he can fly?
So I went to the library to see if I can find anything on human flight,
I came across this amazing book. Chandra Suresh.
He's a genetic professor in India.
When Peter finds the book, I think that's something that just...
God, what is this all mean? And there's so much information, so much,
so much here. It's kinda like finding that key and wondering where it's suppose to go.
What door is suppose to open.
- Marker. - Mark.
- C - Mark!
And... Action!
Woo... I'm looking for a Chandra Suresh?
He doesn't live here anymore.
You Chandra Suresh?
No. That was my father.
Your father wrote a book about people with abilities?
I think I'm maybe one of them.
Coming at a contact with Mohinder opens the world up a little more for Peter.
It shows that there's people that are looking into these abilities.
And there's people that have these abilities, so he's not alone.
So, when you're with your brother you can fly,
- and when you're with the artist... - Isaac.
Yeah, I have met him once, but after I drew the future.
When he was sketching in the hospital, episode 2,
that night before, hours before, he had been with Isaac,
who can paint the future.
It's just stick figures but it was the truth.
It was what happened.
Maybe I can only do things when I'm around other people who can do things.
People always ask us over and over again what powers you'd want,
and I say I'd want what Peter has, he can have anybody's.
You find out that, in fact, he is,
at some extent, an empathic.
He's like a sponge, he can take on the ability of everybody around him.
He absorbs these powers through his
basic humanity of empathy.
He's a guy who makes his living by sitting with dying people,
so there's nothing more empathic than somebody who does that.
But just when Peter started to get some answers,
his world is brought to a complete standstill.
Now you want me to talk to an heroin addict
who allegedly paints the future...
Mohinder?
When subway has stopped and everybody has frozen
and Peter is not affected by it, then he see a guy who's walking forward,
with a sword and kinda looking bad ass.
And it turns out to be Hiro Nakamura, who's come from many years in the future.
And then he tells Peter what his mission is and what he needs to do.
Sorry if I scared you.
You look different without your scar.
For Hiro to stop the subway train and deliver his message,
the visual effects team had to make time stand still.
Usually, we set up 120 cameras,
but there's no time to set that kind of intricate camera ray
on a television schedule.
So, the only other way to do it is to have a lot of people stand really still,
in sort of awkward positions meaning
either in the middle of an action or in the middle of a step.
We literally had the train full of extras, and me.
And the camera came through and they played the scene and we couldn't move or blink.
So, we had all these actors and, to our surprise, they were incredibly still.
So that was great.
Three, two, one... everybody stay still!
And you're waiting, like people are just like kinda frozen
And they had some cool props and what-not,
like a spilling-over cup of coffee.
They did the scene and it was me and Peter in a two-shot,
and I 'm suppose to be frozen and they're going on and couldn't not blink.
It became really difficult for me, like the whole scene became about me not blinking.
Now, what makes us work really well,
everything's frozen but yet you're moving around
and so you're getting a perspective change.
If you just have things in the background people can see:
"Oh, that's a visual effect back there!".
It took two days to do that scene,
and it's probably a minute's worth of film, but it looked great.
- I don't know you, buddy. - Not yet.
My name's Hiro Nakamura. I'm from the future.
I have a message for you.
Of all the people that you've seen who have some sort of ability,
you will come to find out that, in fact, he is the most powerful of them all.
He's one of those guys that you know the position they're in now
is not gonna be the position they're in five years in the future.
They're gonna be a very, very different person.
It's as someone said:
"Hey! Make sure you're nice to Peter now,
because I won't wanna mess with him in a couple of years,
when he understands the magnitude of what he can do"
He goes through this horrible journey to sort of find out what his destiny is.
and it's a very terrible destiny, when he get to the end of it.
I drew the future after I saw you the other day.
it was only a stick figures, but it came truth.
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