Milo Ventimiglia Almost Left Hollywood. Now He’s Doubling Down on Broadcast TV With ‘The Company You Keep’
18.02.2023 - 04:17
/ variety.com
Milo Ventimiglia stepped on a TV set for the first time. Since then, he’s barely ever taken a break — at least not an intentional one. “After ‘Heroes,’ I had a hard time working, I couldn’t get a job,” Ventimiglia says. “It was one of the one or two times in my career where I thought about, what if I did something else? What if I got out of Hollywood? What if I left, and I moved out of the country? What if I did something like completely different than the path that I had been on? Because I couldn’t get work.” Ventimiglia continues: “As an actor, you’re out there, you’re pounding the pavement, you’re taking meetings, you’re auditioning, you’re putting what you can into those auditions, and you’re not getting the work. So therefore it’s kind of like, ‘Well, if they’re not buying what I’m selling, what am I doing here still selling?'”
Having first drawn attention as the rebellious, but charming Jess on “Gilmore Girls” in 2001, Ventimiglia then starred as Peter Petrelli on all four seasons of “Heroes,” which aired on NBC from 2006 to 2010. When it wrapped, he took “a really hard look” at his career path. Then, just when he was about to throw in the towel, he landed an independent movie, followed by another — and the ball continued to roll. “From there, the last almost 14 years, I just haven’t stopped.” If he had decided to take another path, he’s not sure what it would be — maybehe’d be a farmer in Italy, or get into woodworking. “It doesn’t matter at this point,” he says. “I’m so rooted into being creative, and hopefully adding to the community of Hollywood — and adding to people’s break from real life.” That’s exactly what he’s hoping his new show, “The Company You Keep,” will do when it premieres on ABC Sunday, Feb. 19.
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