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| Milo is interviewed in the January/February issue of FILMINK Magazine (an Australian Movie Magazine)
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The Contender
With a strong sideline in TV, Milo Ventimiglia is set to make a big splash opposite Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa.
By Marc Shapiro
Milo Ventimiglia has been acting professionally since 1995. But the 29-year-old playing Rocky's son in the latest installment of the boxing saga, Rocky Balboa, has learned a valuable lesson that makes him wise beyond his years.
"At the end of the day, all you can do is the best work you possibly can," he suggests. "I guess you could say that there's a bit of the realist in me. I mean, the movie could bomb. The TV series could get cancelled."
There's not much of a chance of either happening at this point. Rocky Balboa is being touted as the feel-good movie of the holiday season, while the actor's current job, the science fiction TV series Heroes (starting in Australia on Channel 7 in February), has already received the network blessing with a full season pickup. But it's his role as Rocky Balboa Jr. that has his creative juices flowing.
"A lot of people think Sylvester Stallone is that slow, bunchy, not too bright guy," declares Ventimiglia. "But he's terribly intelligent; he looks you in the eye when he talks to you. He knows what he wants. And no, he didn't slip me twenty bucks to say all that," he laughs.
The actor goes on to relate that the scenes between Stallone and himself were a real acting experience.
"There was just so much honesty in the scenes," he says. "These characters really care about each other. Sly was busting his ass to make all this believable and I'll be damned if I wasn't going to do everything to give it right back."
Ventimiglia, born in Anaheim, California in 1977, made his major acting bones as a regular and semi-regular on the television shows American Dreams and Gilmore Girls, along with occasional forays into film, with the dead-on-arrival werewolf caper Cursed and the indie outing Dirty Deeds. He has never been out of work for very long and Milo attributes his regular employment to a blue collar, nose-to-the-grindstone attitude.
"I'm always focused on the page, and on the scene at hand," he says. "I'm always excited about what I do and I always have it in my head to not **** up."
While Heroes appears to be strapped in for a long run, Ventimiglia is always hot on the trail of other interesting work. Rocky 7, anyone?
"We were laughing about that during filming," he replies. "I don't box in this film but the producers suggested that I might be boxing in Rocky 7. I told them I thought it would be kind of goofy if we jumped into that. But then I thought, 'If there's enough money to be made, and Sly can write a good script, then there's no way that I wouldn't be a part of it.' Even if I had to put on the gloves."
Rocky Balboa is released in cinemas in January (in Australia) |
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