Ali Larter chatted briefly with us the other day about her new TV series HEROES, and while it’s not exactly horror, it does feature her as a Vegas stripper with superpowers so I feel pretty good about running with it.
The synopsis for THE 4400, I mean HEROES, goes like this: This one-hour drama chronicles the lives of ordinary people who find out they have some extraordinary abilities. After a total eclipse, a genetics professor — whose father recently went missing — uncovers a theory regarding people with superhuman powers. Elsewhere, a young man tries to convince his politician brother he can fly, a teenage girl finds she’s totally indestructible, a Vegas showgirl discovers that her mirror image is a separate being and a gift artist (struggling with a drug addiction) can paint the future. Ultimately, this disparate group of folks will be asked to save the world.
So what does Larter think of all this?
“It’s not like X-Men, where all of a sudden … we know what we are. It’s more a question of if you are sitting right there and you figure out that you can hear everyone else’s thoughts, but you have to … come to work every day, and you have to take your kids to school, and you still have to pay your bills.”
Clearly doesn’t sound at all like X-MEN. In fact, the issue of super abilities and how they affect an average life is almost a completely unique idea outside of maybe SPIDER-MAN, but nobody’s ever really heard of that guy.
So spit bullets below on the eternal question: Does Ali Larter as a stripper with mirror powers outweigh the hotness of Ali Larter in a whipped cream bikini? And chat about the show too if you’re so inclined.