A trio of actors from Heroes recently talked about the pressures of filming season two, following such a successful inaugural campaign:
Milo Ventimiglia: I think there’s always going to be pressure no matter whether it’s the first, second, third fourth or fifth season. But I think you have to strive to better yourself and better your characters.
And you look at going into a second season as you are familiar with what the workload is going to be, but then again, this show is always going to be a big one to make. So I think, if anything, it reminds us not to slow down and not to slack off, to do better and to grow.
Greg Grunberg: I think there’s less pressure this year, personally, just because a pilot usually is never as good as the series, and this pilot was just extraordinary. And I think we have kept the quality. To me, at least, whenever I received the next script, it just got better and better. And I think we are in a group.
We are really a group on the show. Certainly, the scripts keep getting better for it. So it’s just unbelievable, the stuff that’s coming out.
Zachary Quinto: Also, I think that pressure, it comes from outside, and I think part of the thing that made this show so successful is that everybody that works on it, you know, from Tim all the way through the cast and the crew, is here to do the best job that they can do, and that has nothing to do with the outside reaction to the show. The work we do here is separate from that, and I think that’s what we do as well.
So I think that sort of takes a little edge off, too, is that this doesn’t seem to be a group that’s too interested in plugging into all of this stuff because we know what we are working on is what really matters.
Posted at August 1st, 2007 12:40 pm by A. Hiro
Filed under: Milo Ventimiglia
Milo Ventimiglia received the full support of his Heroes friends and co-stars at the premiere of “It’s A Mall World” at the ArcLight Theatre on Tuesday in Hollywood.
Adrian Pasdar (with Dixie Chicks wife Natalie Maines), Masi Oka, Zachary Quinto, Greg Grunberg, Jack Coleman, and Hayden Panettiere all attended the event.
“It’s a Mall World” explores the amusingly tortured lives and twisted relationships of two record store employees, a hot greeter at the American Eagle boutique, a slightly nuts sales chick from the scanties store and a bad-boy poseur from the mall juice bar.
The “webisodes” Milo directed will premiere on August 1st during Real World: Sydney and will also be available at AmericanEagle.com.
Posted at July 26th, 2007 9:43 am by A. Hiro
Filed under: Milo Ventimiglia
Milo Ventimiglia appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live yesterday.
He answered questions from VJ Damian Fahey and American Idol guest co-host Katharine McPhee.
The Heroes hottie discused his cameo for Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” music video, being Jay-Z’s biggest fan and his directorial debut.
Ventimiglia has also developed a comedic mini web-series called It’s a Mall World, as part of a marketing campaign for American Eagle Outfitters. The “webisodes” will premiere on August 1st during Real World: Sydney and will also be available at AmericanEagle.com
“I am excited to be working with American Eagle on its first original series,” said Milo. “I am passionate about telling compelling stories and having the opportunity to partner with a brand that understands and respects creativity.”
On August 26, FOX will air the Teen Choice Awards.
And young fans of Heroes will have plenty of chances to vote for their favorite show and cast members. Here are the categories within which various actors are up for awards:
Drama series: “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Heroes,” “House,” “Lost,” “Kyle XY.”
Dramatic actor: Hugh Laurie of “House,” Jared Padalecki of “Supernatural,” Matthew Fox of “Lost,” Milo Ventimiglia of “Heroes,” Wentworth Miller of “Prison Break.”
Dramatic actress: Emily Deschanel of “Bones,” Evangeline Lilly of “Lost,” Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes,” Jennifer Love Hewitt of “Ghost Whisperer,” Katherine Heigl of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Choice breakout show: “Ugly Betty,” “Friday Night Lights,” “October Road,” “Heroes,” “South of Nowhere.”
Choice breakout: America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty,” Matt Dallas of “Kyle XY,” Taylor Kitsch of “Friday Night Lights,” Hayden Panettiere of “Heroes,” Masi Oka of “Heroes.”
Choice villain: Michael Rosenbaum as Lex on “Smallville,” Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina on “Ugly Betty,” Zachary Quinto as Sylar on “Heroes,” Michael Emerson as Ben on “Lost,” Robert Knepper as Theodore Bagwell on “Prison Break.
Posted at June 15th, 2007 10:45 am by A. Hiro
Filed under: Milo Ventimiglia
Peter Petrelli has the ability to replicate the superpowers of others just by coming in contact with them.
Now, the actor that portrays him, Milo Ventimiglia, is hoping that he has absorbed some of the skills of the many directors he’s worked with in his young career.
The actor will be directing a series of shorts for American Eagle Outfitters, the fashion retailer announced in May. A dozen of the five-minute episodes are planned to run on the company’s website on Thursday nights this August. Short versions of each episode, which will be three minutes long, will air on MTV during The Real World: Sydney this summer and in American Eagle stores.
The series, titled It’s a Mall World, focuses on five employees of various outlets in a shopping mall: a pair of record store employees, a “bad-boy poseur from the requisite mall juice bar,” a lingerie store worker who is “slightly psychotic,” and an American Eagle “greeter.”
Acting in the series will be Dianna Agron (Shark), Eddie Hargitay (Neutral Ground), Sam Huntington (Veronica Mars, Superman Returns), Amanda Loncar (Law & Order), and Deon Richmond (Not Another Teen Movie).
Adam Green (Hatchet) will write and Russ Cundiff will produce under Divide Pictures.
And you look at going into a second season as you are familiar with what the workload is going to be, but then again, this show is always going to be a big one to make. So I think, if anything, it reminds us not to slow down and not to slack off, to do better and to grow.
