Former Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson has "seen sh*t that'll turn you white!" I guess that makes him the perfect guy to chase down fugitives in the strange, super-powered world of NBC's Heroes. The veteran genre actor will join the cast of Heroes next season as Captain Lubbock, a Baltimore cop hunting down another character on the show.
It's good to see Hudson returning to TV. He's a great actor who has turned in some memorable TV performances in the past (HBO's Oz, Desperate Housewives), but he always seems to get stuck working in the B-movie ghetto.
Is it safe to assume Hudson will be sharing screen time with Greg Grunberg and Battlestar Galactica's Rick Worthy, since they'll all be playing cops on Heroes' fourth season?
This isn't the first bit of Heroes stunt-casting news we've heard about in the past few months. The show has added a number of new actors for major roles next season. The two most intriguing new casting choices have to be Ray Park and Robert Knepper as members of the traveling carnival of superhumans that's supposed to cause trouble for Peter Petrelli and friends. Anyone out there think Hudson, Park and Knepper can help the show get back on track?
Heroes' fourth season premieres September 21 on NBC.
[Via: The Hollywood Reporter]
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8-12-2009 @ 11:48AM
Richard said...
They seem to be racing back to one of their biggest complaints in the past--too many characters, too many plot lines, to keep up with! It's not really the actors who determine the course of a program--it's the writers. Looks to me like we may be headed for more disappointment.
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8-12-2009 @ 1:19PM
Jason said...
Here's an idea for a Heroes redo... have it center around one or two, possibly three characters with abilities and have the whole thing center around their feelings of isolation, self-discovery, responsibility, and lust/greed/abuse of power.
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8-12-2009 @ 7:26PM
Jimmy said...
The big question of this TV season:
Which show will air its series finale first: Heroes or LOST?
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8-12-2009 @ 7:41PM
Zak said...
Wasn't captain lubbock the name of the cop in the movie masters of the universe?
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8-14-2009 @ 12:21PM
sulema no soy said...
Oh wow, I might actually watch heroes now. They should have a picture of a proton pack in the background just for kicks.
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