Hayden Panettiere, who was awarded the Style Icon honors at the Hollywood Style Awards on Sunday night, admitted on the red carpet that the kiss she recently got from co-star Madeline Zima was all her idea.

She even admits that she persuaded the writers to include the lesbian tongue wrestling action. “I kinda threw it out there. The writers put you in relationships and I was like, ‘Can I just be with a girl or something? Let’s do that.’ So they took it and ran with it.”

Madeline Zima, the talented young actress who gets to bestow the honors on Hayden’s cheerleader’s lips, talked to the Dish Rag about wanting to have the power to fly, learning the “Heroes” lore, and the truth about her sexually and morally ambiguous character that even Claire’s father is growing suspicious of.

“I watched everything. I feel like the fans are so hardcore for that show, that unless you watch, you don’t know what you’re getting yourself into,” she admits.