Marlo joins Heroes, Sylar shakes in boots
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Marlo? A Hero?
I’m new to The Wire, but that seems unlikely. And yet it’s true.
Jamie Hector, who plays the ruthless but impressively ambitious and efficient young Baltimore drug kingpin Marlo Stanfield, will join the Heroes cast when the show returns next season. New York Magazine reveals that he has already shot a couple of episodes, which have been on ice during the writers strike.
Hector, who appeared in Spike Lee’s 1995 Clockers, plays the role of Benjamin Knox Washington. And that’s about all the detail he was willing to share.
What else do you need to know? Marlo is 145 times scarier than Sylar ever was.
Some pairing
I thought it was pretty creepy when romance seemed to be brewing between Claire Bennett and Peter Petrelli midway through season one of Heroes. Later, when it was revealed they were uncle and niece, I was relieved that potential storyline had been chucked.
But when Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia were snapped at a pro hockey game last month, we were back to creepy territory again. I’m willing to admit, though, that I can’t say for sure why. He’s 30 and she’s 18. Normally I’d say that’s not good. But considering that they are high profile celebrities who don’t live anything approximating real lives, is it really terrible?
The future leader of the human resistance against the army of homocidal machines thinks so.
Thomas Dekker, the brooding, emo-ish young actor who made a controversial departure from a role on Heroes as Claire’s gay best friend, called the Milo-Hayden pairing (Haylo? Miden?) “gross” in an interview with Life & Style magazine.
It’s kind of like if I were dating a 12-year-old.
The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles co-star is 20. Lena Headey, the knockout Brit actress from the movie 300 who plays his mother on the show, is 35. Let’s hope he sticks to his stance on May-December romances.
See you next year?
Speaking of Heroes, which I kind of was, TVGuide.com’s Michael Ausiello is bearish on the show’s return this season.
Question: What are the odds that we’ll see more Heroes episodes this season?  DabneyAusiello: Slim to none. Due to the heavily serialized nature of the show, it’s unlikely that Heroes will be back this season. Instead, NBC will likely go straight into production on Season 3.
(Photos: Jamie Hector – HBO; Panettiere and Ventimiglia – AP/Danny Moloshok; Thomas Dekker – Fox Programming)
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