'This Is Us' Star Milo Ventimiglia Gets Emotional on 'The View' While Discussing His Father
Milo Ventimiglia is opening up.
The 45-year-old This Is Us star appeared on The View, and spoke about his role on the hit series.
During the appearance, he emotionally opened up about his parents’ impact on his role on the show.
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“My dad is wonderful… my mom and dad… I get emotional,” he said as he began to choke up.
“My mom and dad are wonderful people. My father and Jack Pearson were of the same era, both born in the 40s, both Vietnam vets. And I saw in Jack the way that I…,” he stopped as he got teary-eyed. “It always happens.”
“I see in Jack the way my father was with my sisters and I, just wonderful. So thank you.”
“What I also saw though was an opportunity with the way he was to just kind of be a version of my dad and the big three were actually me. So I think anything that I was doing was just looking up to my dad. In my trailer, I had a photo of my dad and I of when I was a little kid and it said, ‘Be a good husband. Be a good father.’ And I was like, just look at that every day and you’re there,” he continued.
He also called the character “an attainable superhero,” as “he’s a great example of a man, great example of a husband, of a father who was flawed, absolutely had his flaws but he was someone, anyone, man, woman, child, old, young, any background from anywhere, you could aspire to be like him.”