One of the great things about Heroes is that we’ll never run out of people to talk to. They keep adding new characters, and so much happens that we can always interview the old ones again. Kristen Bell is one of the new ones. She came on with her eletro-Highlander/Emperor power looking for Peter Petrelli, but nothing much happened there. Surely, more is to come.

Crave Online: So, does Elle have a connection to Peter Petrelli? Does she work for the company? Do you know?

Kristen Bell: I have a lot of information about Peter�€™s past. She has ties to HRG and to Claire. There�€™s going to be a very interesting dynamic I think, between her and Claire as far as what is and what is not. And I think there�€™s going to be a deeper relationship there than people are expecting. They�€™re going to see maybe some parallels. But she also has ties to a little bit to Suresh. She�€™s a little messed up in the head which makes her really manipulative and always out to get what she wants. She doesn�€™t have many boundaries which I think is the really interesting part of playing this character on this particular show because the whole first season has been about these fairly good-natured people in trying to embrace these confusing abilities and being very conflicted as to how they should be using them. Elle is not that way at all. She very much enjoys her power and enjoys the emotional power it gives her over other people.