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Milo Ventimiglia
Milo Then and Now
I was very slightly built. I didn’t have a lot of man weight on me, says Ventimiglia. I wasn’t really
grown up. Ironically, that may have actually helped him land his role. Show creator Kring was
specifically looking for an actor who could play someone on the cusp of manhood. When we first
meet Milo’s character, Peter, says Kring, he’s a bit lost and unsure of what his role in life is. Then,
through the course of the season, he had to go from that to becoming a leading man. So he had
to grow into that.
Right after I got back from shooting Rocky [in December 2005], I looked in the mirror and said, OK,
I’m not a teenager anymore. I still looked young but I didn’t have a baby face. It was kind of a
critical point, career-wise, where I needed to start going for the roles that were older. So I tried to
get my physique to match and become more of a man.
Though Ventimiglia, a Southern California native, had always led an active lifestyle (I grew up
skateboarding and snowboarding, and I surfed a little bit), he had never had a formal fitness
regimen.
At the time, the 5ft 9 inch Ventimiglia barely tipped the scales at 137 pounds. So he headed for the
gym and began performing a self-designed lifting routine four times a week. For cardio work, he
ran and jumped rope four to five times a week. He also quit smoking and focused on improving
his nutritional habits. Even as a lifelong vegetarian (no meat, no fish, no eggs), he discovered
that eating healthy had to be- come a conscious decision. You can be a vegetarian and still eat
pizza every day, he says. For the first time, I started to really pay attention to what I was putting
into my body.
Those results started to become apparent midway through the first season of Heroes. Even
though he deliberately avoided trying to add size, he still put on close to 20 pounds of muscle
mass. Currently his body weight hovers around 155 pounds. People started to look at me and say,
Wow, you’ve grown up. Did you get taller? Ventimiglia laughs.
Getting fit also paid off for the show, which, as a fast-paced, sci-fi action series, is one of the
more physically demanding productions around. I get beat up, I’m bloodied, I’m in a flying
harness, I’m knocked down. I’ve definitely had a lot of bumps and bruises, says Ventimiglia, who
does the lion’s share of his own stunt work. I’ve got to keep myself strong and flexible and in the
right state of body to do a lot of those things. Says Kring: I don’t think we would have written a lot
of the stuff that we did in the second half of the season had we not seen what Milo could do
physically.
Of course, the demands of a hit show mean it’s often a challenge to keep up a regular workout
schedule. It’s either wake up early in the morning or go late after work, says the actor. I also
bring dumbbells to my trailer and see if I can’t maintain there. And when he’s tempted to blow off
a session now and then, he calls to mind the example of a previous mentor. When we were on
Rocky, recalls Ventimiglia, I saw the discipline that [Stallone] had. Physically, he put himself
through hell to get into shape. Even when we were shooting the boxing scenes, he was
constantly drinking from his water bottle because it contained all these vitamins and supplements.
Milo Then and Now
I was very slightly built. I didn’t have a lot of man weight on me, says Ventimiglia. I wasn’t really
grown up. Ironically, that may have actually helped him land his role. Show creator Kring was
specifically looking for an actor who could play someone on the cusp of manhood. When we first
meet Milo’s character, Peter, says Kring, he’s a bit lost and unsure of what his role in life is. Then,
through the course of the season, he had to go from that to becoming a leading man. So he had
to grow into that.
Right after I got back from shooting Rocky [in December 2005], I looked in the mirror and said, OK,
I’m not a teenager anymore. I still looked young but I didn’t have a baby face. It was kind of a
critical point, career-wise, where I needed to start going for the roles that were older. So I tried to
get my physique to match and become more of a man.
Though Ventimiglia, a Southern California native, had always led an active lifestyle (I grew up
skateboarding and snowboarding, and I surfed a little bit), he had never had a formal fitness
regimen.
At the time, the 5ft 9 inch Ventimiglia barely tipped the scales at 137 pounds. So he headed for the
gym and began performing a self-designed lifting routine four times a week. For cardio work, he
ran and jumped rope four to five times a week. He also quit smoking and focused on improving
his nutritional habits. Even as a lifelong vegetarian (no meat, no fish, no eggs), he discovered
that eating healthy had to be- come a conscious decision. You can be a vegetarian and still eat
pizza every day, he says. For the first time, I started to really pay attention to what I was putting
into my body.
Those results started to become apparent midway through the first season of Heroes. Even
though he deliberately avoided trying to add size, he still put on close to 20 pounds of muscle
mass. Currently his body weight hovers around 155 pounds. People started to look at me and say,
Wow, you’ve grown up. Did you get taller? Ventimiglia laughs.
Getting fit also paid off for the show, which, as a fast-paced, sci-fi action series, is one of the
more physically demanding productions around. I get beat up, I’m bloodied, I’m in a flying
harness, I’m knocked down. I’ve definitely had a lot of bumps and bruises, says Ventimiglia, who
does the lion’s share of his own stunt work. I’ve got to keep myself strong and flexible and in the
right state of body to do a lot of those things. Says Kring: I don’t think we would have written a lot
of the stuff that we did in the second half of the season had we not seen what Milo could do
physically.
Of course, the demands of a hit show mean it’s often a challenge to keep up a regular workout
schedule. It’s either wake up early in the morning or go late after work, says the actor. I also
bring dumbbells to my trailer and see if I can’t maintain there. And when he’s tempted to blow off
a session now and then, he calls to mind the example of a previous mentor. When we were on
Rocky, recalls Ventimiglia, I saw the discipline that [Stallone] had. Physically, he put himself
through hell to get into shape. Even when we were shooting the boxing scenes, he was
constantly drinking from his water bottle because it contained all these vitamins and supplements.
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