
Milo Ventimiglia, the sexy 29-year-old co-star in the hit show Heroes and Rocky's son in the recently released film Rocky Balboa, is not your typical Hollywood type. His big dream is not to create a frenzy of media attention or be smothered with public adulation, but to be recognized as a hard-working guy with integrity. Or so he says!
On what attracted him to Heroes:
Well that's the thing though. It was called Heroes, not Superheroes. Tim King had written this wonderful piece about human beings going through a change that was affecting their lives; being presented with abilities that were fearful and exhilarating. It's like, what would you do if you had the opportunity to fly or the ability to fly? Or if you could read people's thoughts? You could use it for good or you could use it for bad. So he had written this fantastic character study, the foundation of which is just the human element, the human perspective of what would you do? You have a very real world and then you have these unrealistic happenings that make it special.
On getting the gig for Rocky Balboa?
I was living in New York when I first heard about the new Rocky film. I had a meeting with a casting agent and just went in and read on tape. A week later I'm in the room with Sylvester. And you walk in and he's got that deep voice and he shakes your hand and his hand just wraps all the way around your hand. And literally, you are just like, holy shit, this is Sylvester Stallone? Mega star, mega star. So we're sitting in the room with him, the casting directors are there and I apologize that I'm not clean-shaven because I'm doing re-shoots on a film. Sly says, “It's not biblical, is it?” And I'm like, “No, no, it's not.” And we shared a laugh. And he leans over to the casting director and says, “His lip even hooks down like mine does” and I'm like, “Was that acceptance?”
Read his interview HERE.
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