More on Uhura on Heroes

From TVGuide:

First Sulu, now Uhura. Once again, Heroes has boldly gone back to classic Star Trek for a cool casting coup: Sci-fi icon Nichelle Nichols will join fellow Trekker George Takei as a recurring player on the hit NBC series.

Showing up in the season's fourth episode, Nichols will play Nana, a New Orleans doyenne whose daughter died during Hurricane Katrina. "Nana is tough and undaunted and — like the blues — she just keeps rising to the occasion," Nichols says. The character, who is in dire financial straits, has moved back into her once-flooded home, where she cares for her two grandchildren. One of them, new hero Monica (The Nine's Dana Davis), is an avenging angel intent on bringing justice to the corruption-plagued Big Easy. Nana is also a great-aunt to Micah, the junior hero played by series regular Noah Gray-Cabey. "Micah is sent to New Orleans to live with the family," Nichols says. "It's a quite marvelous, magical story, with wonderful things emerging." Does Nana have a superpower? "Well, that remains to be seen, now doesn't it?" coos Nichols.

The actress confirmed her much-rumored Heroes gig at a recent Trek convention in Las Vegas, where she reports that "the entire room went insane. I felt like I was Oprah giving out cars!"

More on Uhura on Heroes

From TVGuide:

First Sulu, now Uhura. Once again, Heroes has boldly gone back to classic Star Trek for a cool casting coup: Sci-fi icon Nichelle Nichols will join fellow Trekker George Takei as a recurring player on the hit NBC series.

Showing up in the season's fourth episode, Nichols will play Nana, a New Orleans doyenne whose daughter died during Hurricane Katrina. "Nana is tough and undaunted and — like the blues — she just keeps rising to the occasion," Nichols says. The character, who is in dire financial straits, has moved back into her once-flooded home, where she cares for her two grandchildren. One of them, new hero Monica (The Nine's Dana Davis), is an avenging angel intent on bringing justice to the corruption-plagued Big Easy. Nana is also a great-aunt to Micah, the junior hero played by series regular Noah Gray-Cabey. "Micah is sent to New Orleans to live with the family," Nichols says. "It's a quite marvelous, magical story, with wonderful things emerging." Does Nana have a superpower? "Well, that remains to be seen, now doesn't it?" coos Nichols.

The actress confirmed her much-rumored Heroes gig at a recent Trek convention in Las Vegas, where she reports that "the entire room went insane. I felt like I was Oprah giving out cars!"

More on Uhura on Heroes

From TVGuide:

First Sulu, now Uhura. Once again, Heroes has boldly gone back to classic Star Trek for a cool casting coup: Sci-fi icon Nichelle Nichols will join fellow Trekker George Takei as a recurring player on the hit NBC series.

Showing up in the season's fourth episode, Nichols will play Nana, a New Orleans doyenne whose daughter died during Hurricane Katrina. "Nana is tough and undaunted and — like the blues — she just keeps rising to the occasion," Nichols says. The character, who is in dire financial straits, has moved back into her once-flooded home, where she cares for her two grandchildren. One of them, new hero Monica (The Nine's Dana Davis), is an avenging angel intent on bringing justice to the corruption-plagued Big Easy. Nana is also a great-aunt to Micah, the junior hero played by series regular Noah Gray-Cabey. "Micah is sent to New Orleans to live with the family," Nichols says. "It's a quite marvelous, magical story, with wonderful things emerging." Does Nana have a superpower? "Well, that remains to be seen, now doesn't it?" coos Nichols.

The actress confirmed her much-rumored Heroes gig at a recent Trek convention in Las Vegas, where she reports that "the entire room went insane. I felt like I was Oprah giving out cars!"

Nathan Fillion/OLTL

So I'm off work today and being a slug because of the heat.

Anyway, I tuned into One Life to Live to catch Nathan Fillion's guest spot. I did hee over all of his on-screen siblings mocking him for his teenaged affair with Dorian (back when Nathan Fillion was on the show.) It struck me during the scene of siblings drinking after their grandfather's funeral that none of the actors playing his siblings actually played his sibling while he was on the show. And they aren't all from the current version of the show, either. The guy playing his brother also isn't on the show these days. It's like they cherry picked which actors they wanted to create the family (with the exception of the actresses who play his younger sisters as they currently work on the show.) I thought Fillion (Joe) and Dan Gautier(Kevin) did a good job of looking like and portraying brothers... even though chances are pretty darn good that they met each other for the first time during the shoot. (Since Nathan's "Joey" played opposite a different incarnation "Kevin". Heck, for that matter, Nathan's Joey had a different actor who played his father when he was on the show. Only his mother Viki, Uncle Bo, and his ex-lover Dorian were the same actors as when he was on the show.

Nathan Fillion/OLTL

So I'm off work today and being a slug because of the heat.

Anyway, I tuned into One Life to Live to catch Nathan Fillion's guest spot. I did hee over all of his on-screen siblings mocking him for his teenaged affair with Dorian (back when Nathan Fillion was on the show.) It struck me during the scene of siblings drinking after their grandfather's funeral that none of the actors playing his siblings actually played his sibling while he was on the show. And they aren't all from the current version of the show, either. The guy playing his brother also isn't on the show these days. It's like they cherry picked which actors they wanted to create the family (with the exception of the actresses who play his younger sisters as they currently work on the show.) I thought Fillion (Joe) and Dan Gautier(Kevin) did a good job of looking like and portraying brothers... even though chances are pretty darn good that they met each other for the first time during the shoot. (Since Nathan's "Joey" played opposite a different incarnation "Kevin". Heck, for that matter, Nathan's Joey had a different actor who played his father when he was on the show. Only his mother Viki, Uncle Bo, and his ex-lover Dorian were the same actors as when he was on the show.

Nathan Fillion/OLTL

So I'm off work today and being a slug because of the heat.

Anyway, I tuned into One Life to Live to catch Nathan Fillion's guest spot. I did hee over all of his on-screen siblings mocking him for his teenaged affair with Dorian (back when Nathan Fillion was on the show.) It struck me during the scene of siblings drinking after their grandfather's funeral that none of the actors playing his siblings actually played his sibling while he was on the show. And they aren't all from the current version of the show, either. The guy playing his brother also isn't on the show these days. It's like they cherry picked which actors they wanted to create the family (with the exception of the actresses who play his younger sisters as they currently work on the show.) I thought Fillion (Joe) and Dan Gautier(Kevin) did a good job of looking like and portraying brothers... even though chances are pretty darn good that they met each other for the first time during the shoot. (Since Nathan's "Joey" played opposite a different incarnation "Kevin". Heck, for that matter, Nathan's Joey had a different actor who played his father when he was on the show. Only his mother Viki, Uncle Bo, and his ex-lover Dorian were the same actors as when he was on the show.