I challenge you to find someone watching Heroes who doesn’t hold Hiro Nakamura as the coolest character on TV.  Come to find out, Masi Oka, who portrays Hiro, has plenty of experience in what it takes to be someone of the…geekly persuasion.  In addition to a history in improv and the like, Masi also spent some time, and is still doing so, with ILM, the company responsible for the effects in the Star Wars films, Pirates of the Carribean, and The Perfect Storm.  Many of the water effects that you see in those films were the result of Oka’s work.

So he can stop time and work on Star Wars?  I want to be him.

Check out the interview here.