Hayden Panettiere’s co-star on Heroes, Jack Coleman, recently opened up to Entertainment Weekly about what makes Hayden a great actress.

Pointing to one scene from the episode “Company Man” as well as Hayden’s hard work and positive demeanor, here’s what Jack Coleman had to say…

Entertainment Weekly: You have great chemistry with Hayden Panettiere — was it easy for you to develop a rapport with her?

Jack Coleman: The scene that we did in the pilot where I come home and she comes running into my arms, we’d known each other for about 45 seconds when we shot that. I was the guest star. I come out of my trailer, we’re about to shoot, she comes out with “Daddy!” I thought, “Wow, this is a very open actor.” I was really kind of blown away.

Hayden Panettiere has chemistry with everybody. She’s invested in whoever she is looking at and acting with, and I think that’s something that’s really special about her. She’s very savvy about the camera, but she’s not giving it to the camera, she’s giving it to the actor. We had a scene right before “Company Man” where, in the hospital, she finally blows up and yells at me. We had to do a lot of coverage of her, and she’s crying throughout, for several hours, and it’s exhausting.

And we did all her coverage, and then the camera came around and shot me, and all the tears came, and she’s off-camera. Hayden Panettiere invests. It’s funny, all this talk in the media about her being another “teenage starlet” wondering if she’ll go the way of other young celebrities.

People need to pay attention to her work. Her work is really good. It’d be nice if people talked about that sometime instead of just everywhere she’s going, or who she’s dating, and whether or not she’s going to run off the rails.

And by the way? I don’t see that happening.

It would be wrong - on many levels - to go on about how good 17-year-old Heroes star Hayden Panettiere looked yesterday on the set of her hit show.

Either way, she didn’t play on her looks the way so many lovely young stars do, batting eyelashes and making sure you get a good look at the assets.

She seemed more like a perfect-attendance, student council president type … who just happens to be magazine-cover gorgeous.

Hayden Panettiere did, however, provide one of the more, troubling moments of the morning, and this one was straight out of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer rerun.

As a TV with Meevee correspondent toured the set, Hayden Panettiere made very clear that we won’t be seeing her in any Lindsay Lohan-style misadventures.

“I have an allowance that I get, the money was never made apparent to me, it was just, ‘This is what you love to do.’ I was raised completely as a normal kid,” she said.

“I take out the trash, I walk the dogs, I make the bed, I vacuum… I’m not allowed to leave the house unless I make the bed and make sure that everything in my room is put away.”

Hayden has a generous 1 a.m. curfew, however.

Besides the fans yelling “The cheerleader!” and pointing at her, there are some tough angles to being a pretty young star. Like the paparazzi waiting outside her house for her to leave.

“You usually have cameras following you, which makes it more of a scene,” she said. “I went to Venice Beach the other day, you can sort of blend in with people, which is kind of nice. But then they see 10 cameras, and they’re like, ‘Who are they looking at? Who are they looking at?’”

She sighed and shook her head, and someone asked if she could understand what has happened to Lindsay Lohan and to other young starlets, and if it could happen to her. The answer to the latter was an emphatic no.

“I’m not surrounded by those kinds of people they’re surrounded by. You understand how it happens, you understand what they did wrong,” said the older sister of Jansen Panettiere.

“But it’s so, like, controllable. When you’re putting nasty white powder up your nose, that’s you putting it up there, no one else is putting it up there.”

On Heroes, Hayden Panettiere, as you surely know, plays the cheerleader, Claire Bennet, whose super power is healing. Halfway through the tour, the prosthetics guys had a selection of fake body parts laid out on a long table.

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It’s the ultimate high-school girl’s fantasy.

You’re on a sound stage, surrounded by a hairdresser, makeup artists and racks of beautiful clothes. A camera crew follows you as you shoot a TV commercial for which you’re getting paid big bucks.

Welcome to the world of Hayden Panettiere.

She’s been in front of the cameras since her audition for a commercial at eight months old, “before she could even sit up straight,” says her mom, Lesley. Panettiere, who turns 18 August 21, stars on Heroes as Claire Bennet, who inspired the show’s catchphrase “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

At this Sunday shoot, Hayden Panettiere is joined by her 12-year-old brother, Jansen Panettiere, who’s followed his big sis into show business.

In the Nickelodeon movie The Last Day of Summer (premiering Friday at 8 pm/ET) he plays a boy who dreads going to school and wishes Labor Day would last forever.

Don’t we all…

As they sit down to talk with TV Guide, Hayden Panettiere — at her mother’s prompting — starts to interview her brother.

Hayden Panettiere: Why are you so handsome?

Jansen Panettiere: ‘Cause I got good genes from my mom.

Hayden: You are hurting Dad’s feelings.

Jansen: [To his father, Skip, who is also at the shoot] Dad, you gave me a very balanced body. [To Hayden Panettiere] Now, why are you so gorgeous?

Hayden: Because I am related to you. Why did you get the dark skin and the dark eyes?

Jansen: It is a lot harder for me because [Hollywood] likes blond, blue-eyed kids.

Hayden: No one wants him to play white. He is doing a feature film, The Perfect Game….

Jansen: I play a Hispanic baseball player from the 1950s.

Hayden: What’s your character like in The Last Day of Summer?

Jansen: I don’t think he is extremely… energized? How do you say it?

Hayden: Energetic. You, by the way, are very energetic.

Jansen: Thank you for noticing. My character does not have the electricity that I have. During the film his confidence gets a total boot.

Hayden: Boot! You mean boost.

Jansen: Oh my god. I can’t work with her. [To his mother] Mom, Hayden is picking on me.

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Seating was scarce at Wizard World Philadelphia Saturday, a show of the power of celebrity and the success of Hayden Panettiere and her hit series Heroes.

According to Comic Book Resources, the crowd broke into deafening cheers as Panettiere entered and sat right of the center podium with a giggle.

A Wizard staffer primed the audience, asking if they enjoyed the first season of Heroes. The crowd erupted in the resoundingly affirmative.

The staff member asked the audience if they like Hayden Panettiere’s role as Claire Bennet on the show, and the audience roared even louder.

The staffer began by asking about Heroes, which Panettiere said she loves.

She mentioned her independent film, Fireflies in the Garden which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film also stars Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, and Willem Dafoe. Next Panettiere plugged upcoming album, produced by J.R. Rotem, which she describes as “pop-rock” but also “a mix of different things.”

The floor was then opened to questions, with fans jumping at the chance for face time with the Heroes heart throb.

The first question was whether Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimigla, who plays Peter Petrelli on Heroes, have any “off-set chemistry,” which made the actress laugh.

“I’m sensing some bonus scenes on the DVD,” she joked, to the delight of many. “We’re all very close. We’re a family.”

The next fan asked if Hayden Panettiere would star in a Supergirl movie if offered the role. “Would that require a cape?” she asked, before stating, “I’d consider it. Sure.”

Another young fan asked if the lovely Hayden Panettiere had ever been a cheerleader in real life.

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In the totally awesome movie Bring It On: All or Nothing, Hayden Panettiere plays a cheerleader named Britney.

It’s only fitting, then, that when asked about another Britney - troubled pop star Britney Spears - during a recent interview, our heroine responded in a sensitive, mature manner.

Here’s what Hayden Panettiere had to say about Spears:

“We sort of, watched her grow up, from little and made her the biggest star in the world. We made her what every young girl wanted to be, and then we tore her apart. We made her the way she is, it’s our fault, it’s not her fault, and hopefully she’ll find a way. People should leave her alone, no one knows the whole story.”

Here, in her simple assessment of Britney, Hayden has shown compassion and wisdom beyond her years. We only hope she approaches her own fame with this attitude. Panettiere, as we know, is a rising star, as Britney once was.

Remember when she looked like this? Exactly. You’ve got a good head on your shoulders, Hayden. Keep using it.

Recently, Crave Online caught up with the pivotal Hero, Hayden Panettiere, just after she’d been saved in the fall finale. We can only imagine what’s in store for her in the second half of the amazing show’s first year. Here’s the interview:

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Crave Online: Does the physical aspect of your role come easy for you?

Hayden Panettiere: I think so.  I hope so.  Both my parents played a lot of sports.  I played a lot of sports, when I was younger. I think the whole racing zebras [in Racing Stripes], figure skating [in Ice Princess] and all that stuff paid off, in that case.

Crave Online: Is there more job security for you, knowing your character is indestructible?

Hayden Panettiere: No, because they remind us every day that anyone could go.  Anyone.  It helps, probably, to be indestructible, but we’ve also realized that the key to people’s powers lies in their brain.  There was that scene, a few episodes ago, where Thomas Dekker’s character, Zach, says to me, “You could have died,” after Sylar comes, and I say, “I know.” The question really is, “Can she die?”  Let’s say she got that stick stuck in her head and they never pulled it out.  How long can her body survive enough to regenerates, before she really dies?

Crave Online: But they saved you, so everything’s okay now?

Hayden Panettiere: I’m not so sure about that.

Crave Online: How central will Claire be now that the save the cheerleader thing is resolved?

Hayden Panettiere: I don’t know if it’s so resolved yet. I mean, Save the Cheerleader, Save the World, there are two parts to that. There is always the fear of getting lost in an ensemble piece but this show does an incredible job of giving everyone their time in the spotlight.

Crave Online: Will the next few episodes deal with Claire’s search for her birth parents?

Hayden Panettiere: It feels like we’re starting a new season.  It’s been so incredible.  In these episodes, the writing, the acting, the characters have made this huge leap and it’s amazing.  My character is definitely running down that road of trying to discover who she is, where she comes from, who here parents are, if she’s alone.  And, you realize that it’s a very, very small world, and people have these very odd connections.  There are a couple big, big turns coming up.

Crave Online: Do you finally get out of the cheerleader outfit?

Hayden Panettiere: Sometimes, if I’m lucky.

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