Former Heroesstar Leonard Roberts is opening up about his contentious exit from the hit show early in the second season, claiming in a new essay that he clashed with his main costar, Ali Larter, and was met with perceived indifference from creator and showrunner Tim Kring, leading him to feel singled out as a Black actor. In a first-person piece for Variety,Roberts said that despite playing Larter's onscreen husband on the NBC drama, she expressed discomfort at doing an intimate bedroom scene with him and later excluded him from discussions about their shared scenes. Roberts said he was later told by Kring that his character would be killed off over "the Ali Larter situation," while she got to stay on the show.