Heroes’ Milo Ventigmilia: Why One Australian Fan Loves Him

Today we have an exclusive Sofachip interview with Sherrie Sherwood, who owns and operates a popular Milo Ventimiglia community on Livejournal.com. I chatted with the friendly Aussie about Heroes, the ridiculous nature of tabloids, and Milo’s last name. Some of her favorite pictures of Milo are peppered throughout this post. Let’s go!

What year did you start the Livejournal community Milo_fans?

I started it 7th of May 2007. And hey, it’s been one whole year now! Aawww, I wish I’d caught that, I could of made a 1 year anniversary post.

Yes, most definitely my favourite actor. David Duchovny used to be my favourite, and I never thought I’d ever find an actor in my lifetime that I like more than David, but then I watched Heroes and David was pushed to second place. Other actors that I like besides Milo and David are Tony Leung, Cathrine Zeta Jones, and a lot of other actors.

Heroes, after that I chased up all the other shows and movies he’s been in. The Apple iBook advert surprised me, because I remembered that advert from years back (I’m a Mac person, I notice that sort of stuff).

I thought Speedway Junky was depressing. Other than that I can’t think of anything I’ve disliked.

Peter Petrelli in Heroes, what got my attention besides the fact that he was a real cutie, was Peter’s earnestness. And there was a classic ‘Hero on a mission’ thing going on in a Super Hero setting (my favourite genre) that happens to be a favourite theme of mine.

Thankfully, everyone on the community has shown nothing but support in reference to the couple. As for surfing the web, it’s mixed. There a lot of people who love it that they are together, and a lot who have mature attitudes about the age differences and understand it something based on the individuals themselves. And then there are the people with intolerant and juvenile attitudes, though loud, I think they are out numbered. Plus their comments just reflect back on themselves.

I’ve never seen the short film Intelligence, and this is something I really want to see! And of course Pathology, which has not been released in Australia. The only thing preventing me from seeing them is access. If there is anything that is available, I do not hesitate to trot down to my local DVD store, or Amazon.com.

The other day, not so much a tabloid rumour, but a title to online tabloid article:

“Hayden Panettiere & Milo Ventimiglia Married?“

Milo actually says a lot of things that impress me, but I’m going to have to get back to you on this one to find some of the quotes. A lot of stuff came out of all the Pathology press junket, he’d become a lot more open, and talkative than I had notice in previous interviews. Maybe more confident, don’t know… but I liked what I was reading/hearing, he talks about the ‘art’ of acting, he reflective, and his comments show a very creative intelligence. And being a movie geek myself, who is very interested in the craft of telling stories no matter what the media, it’s really nice to see that he says the the same things I’ve been thinking too.

I have it memorized now, but I do have the occasional typo. And I just have to double check myself. But I’d be nervous about ’saying’ his name out loud to people in public, etc, I just KNOW I’m going to mangle it!

I have no idea, it’s been over 10 years since I’ve seen the movie, and have not yet got around to checking it out because I was led to believe it was a blink and you miss it moment. Have you seen it?

(I *think* I saw him in it, I’ve certainly seen the movie plenty of times!)

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