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UnderGroundOnline caught up with Hayden Panettiere via conference call and had this to say:
Panettiere on where we find Claire Bennett in Season 2:“Well, it’s four months from where we left off last season. Claire is really just trying to get in touch with her inner teen self once again. She hasn’t given that up, and I think it’d be a sad thing if she did. She’s struggling to fit in but not stand out and obviously they’re still hiding and running from these people. And West – you know, I think the funny thing about Claire is that as much as she has that beautiful naivete about her and as sweet as she is, she does have that spitfire. She has that sass about her. And so it’s fun to watch her . But I think when she meets West – I mean, you guys will see. It’s a gradual meeting. It’s teenage angst.”
On what the chemistry is like in Season 2 given the changing cast:
“It’s been great. You know, we have a new character Dania Ramirez is playing – her name’s Maya – and she’s been really fun. And her brother – her twin brother, Shalim Ortiz. I haven’t really gotten a chance to be around them a whole lot, other than a few cast things on set. But it seems everyone is pretty excited and thrilled to be a part of the show. It’s an already established show, and it’s been doing great and it’s a wonderful show and most of the people who have joined the cast have seen it and are just psyched to be there.”
Panettiere on the DVD feature she contributed to most:
There are commentaries and a ton of deleted scenes, which I didn’t knowingly participate in. But there’s like 50 deleted scenes. They’re just deleted scenes that were never used, and it’s incredible. Looking back at it now – I’m not going to lie, I’m watching it right now. It’s incredible how many scenes you just totally forget were deleted. You’re like, ‘Oh, that’s where that scene went!’ But it’s really fun to watch because we really had limited time – it’s only an hour show and especially with the pilot and stuff, you have such limited time to explain all this information that you need to know before you can really get into the gut of the show, which is why we have the two-hour pilot which we showed at Comic Con as well. It really explains other characters and it goes more in depth to other things, but unfortunately didn’t have time for it.”
On Claire’s biggest change through Season 1:
“I think she really grew up, you know? I definitely for a while there was getting sick of crying. I don’t know about anyone else who watching the show, but I was tired of seeing her cry. She just went from that naive teenage girl who only wanted – you know, if you guys don’t have kids or haven’t noticed, teenagers are selfish, and I will vouch for that – she wanted what any teenager would want. She wanted to be normal, she wanted to be popular, she wanted to date the quarterback of the football team. You know, over the time, she realized that by dismissing her power like that, that she was risking a lot of people’s lives — that there was so much more she can do if she just came to terms with that. And so she just really evolved. She just really grew up. She learned to stand her own and stick up for herself. She’s matured and hopefully she’ll keep doing that.”
On wanting to play the bad guy:
“I think because I’ve always been very categorized and sometimes typecast because of the fact that I’m blonde, and people look at me as either the popular cheerleader type or just the blonde. You don’t play villains unless you’re Sharon Stone when you’re blonde and you look like that. It would be – just exciting for me. People look at me as very – as sweet sometimes and I say, I would never in a million years describe myself as sweet, never. But I think it would be a blast. I think it’s more fun to be bad. At least I have a chance – at least I could play and pretend to be bad on the screen.”
Source: UGO