That was, of course, disappointing to Leonard but he was still excited and kept on and said he was looking forward to sharing his thoughts on his character with the writers. Leonard was supposed to be in the first episode of season one, but after the show was picked up by NBC, his debut was moved to the second episode and then the sixth episode. was a construction worker who could pass through solid objects and used his power to escape prison. Leonard writes that the first red flag came when his character was described as “a white man’s nightmare” in an early draft of the script for the pilot. Ali responded to Leonard’s claims about her, and it turns out her other supervillain power is that she can make eyeballs roll out of heads with a shitty statement. And even though others working on the show also found that Ali Larter’s supervillain power was punching the souls of others with her asshole ways, Leonard was the one who got pink-slipped. Leonard says that he was never asked for input on his character, he and other actors of color were often side-lined, and that working with Ali Larter, who played his wife on the show, was about as pleasant as a salad tossing from a python. In an essay published by Variety, Leonard writes that from the get-go he knew Heroes was not going to be his dream job and his character was killed off after just one season. Hawkins on the first season of Heroes in 2006, he thought he landed his big break, but it turned out to be anything but.

When Leonard Roberts got cast in the series regular role of D.L.

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