Milo Ventimiglia reveals the reason he nearly quit his career after the iconic role in the series.
Milo Ventimiglia has become a big star thanks to his participation in Gilmore Girls, The Rocky franchise and, most recently in the hit NBC series This is Us, where he played the endearing Jack Pearson. However, his first big step towards stardom was with his role in Heroes.
The popular series, also from NBC, had a total of 4 seasons and 77 episodes, with Ventimiglia playing one of the main characters, Peter Petrelli. And, even though the series was a success with its first seasons, it seems that things didn’t go so well for the actor once the project ended.
In a recent interview with Variety, Milo confessed that he considered quitting acting after the show:
After Heroes, I had a hard time working, I couldn’t get a job. 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… 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?
What Was Heroes About?
Heroes tells the stories of ordinary people who discover that they have superhuman abilities and how these abilities take effect in the characters’ lives as they work together to prevent catastrophic futures.
The main characters from Heroes were Ventimiglia’s Peter Petrelli, a hospice nurse with the ability to mimic the abilities of other people; Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennet, a high-school cheerleader who can spontaneously regenerate; Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, an office worker who can manipulate space-time; Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli, a congressional candidate with the ability to fly; Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman, an LAPD police officer who can read people’s minds; Ali Larter as Niki, a sufferer of dissociative identity disorder, displays superhuman strength; Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh a genetics professor at the University of Madras holding a PhD in parapsychology.; and Jack Coleman as Noah Bennet, Claire’s adoptive father who’s obsessed with no one finding out about her abilities.
