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A: Wish fulfillment. Doing everyday stuff is awesome too, I love to just be a guy, but there aren’t a lot of those jobs that have flown my way necessarily. Part of it is it’s the world I’m established in so people come to you with the same role but to me it’s less about the genre and more about what’s telling the best stories.

Q:So you were a big Heroes fan?

A: I watched some of it. I caught up on the first season and I think I watched the second season live. I’ve watched bits and pieces of three and four. It was difficult because I didn’t really have a life while I was shooting Chuck. We were working 16 hour days and I was there all day every day so I fell off on all television watching. But we were all on NBC together and I met so many [cast and crew] during that run. I’m still friends with many of them. It was a really cool world that Tim Kring and Bryan Fuller created. I was always intrigued by it. So when this got announced I thought it’d be fun to do.

For people to look at them and go ‘you’re sexist because you don’t like the female Thor,’ it’s like hang on a second.

Q:How did that happen?

A:A friend sent the Deadline announcement of the miniseries. I had been looking for my next job. I hadn’t gotten back into television really [since Chuck] because I was waiting for the right gig. And then I got the announcement and I thought that could be the right gig. That could be something that’s enough of a departure from the Chuck archetype; something smarter, darker, sexier, gritty. So I went to my team and asked them to look into it and then I spoke to Tim Kring and told him I’d really like to do it as long as there’s a character that’s not Chuck. And we worked it out.