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ART STREIBER/AUGUST; INSET: RON BATZDORFF/NBC<br />
MILO<br />
VENTIMIGLIA<br />
This<br />
Is Milo<br />
THE THIS IS US STAR<br />
OPENS UP ABOUT HIS<br />
RISE TO FAME—AND<br />
HIS FANS’ OBSESSION<br />
WITH HIS DEATH<br />
By JESS CAGLE<br />
He’s America’s favorite<br />
TV dad: Jack Pearson, the<br />
flawed but devoted father on<br />
NBC’s time-shifting drama<br />
This Is Us. Fans of the show<br />
are also head over heels for<br />
the man who plays him—<br />
Milo Ventimiglia, 39.<br />
A native of Anaheim, Calif.,<br />
Ventimiglia is a TV veteran<br />
who got his big break on<br />
Gilmore Girls and starred<br />
on Heroes. In the latest episode<br />
of The Jess Cagle Interview,<br />
Ventimiglia sat down with<br />
<strong>People</strong>’s editor-in-chief<br />
to discuss his life, Jack’s<br />
death and more.<br />
On This Is Us with<br />
Mandy Moore.<br />
Since the Will and Grace<br />
reboot will be on NBC<br />
this fall, do you imagine<br />
any kind of crossover<br />
with This Is Us?<br />
I would absolutely<br />
go on Will and Grace<br />
and play the neighbor!<br />
The handyman neighbor<br />
or something.<br />
How has Jack evolved over the<br />
course of the first season of This Is Us?<br />
I think the greatest change that I<br />
noticed was just the depth that this<br />
man has. In the beginning, when you<br />
meet him, [he has] this youthful<br />
optimism...then to see him evolve and<br />
‘I’m a lot<br />
like Jack,<br />
and he’s<br />
like me . . .<br />
especially<br />
where I am<br />
right now<br />
as a man’<br />
PEOPLE <strong>June</strong> <strong>26</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
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