Wow – Milo Ventimiglia is clearly a man who worries about typecasting.
As Peter Petrelli, the most powerful of all the heroes on the hit TV show, erm, Heroes, Ventimiglia is a constant do-gooding, albeit slightly drippy, presence, despite efforts to darken him slightly in the second season.
And Ventimiglia is obviously conscious of being pigeonholed as Mr. Nice Guy, because he’s just told Entertainment Weekly that he’s signed on for not one, but two bad guy roles in upcoming movies.
First, he’ll continue his mini-streak of Neveldine/Taylor movies by following up his starring turn in the Crank duo’s Pathology (which they wrote and produced) with a role opposite Gerard Butler in the futuristic sci-fi thriller, Game.
Keeping his lips so tightly sealed you’d think that he was answering questions about Heroes plot developments, all Ventimiglia would initially say is that he’s playing “a very interesting futuristic character that's not necessarily in control of himself. I think that’s mysterious and cryptic enough.”
However, after then revealing that he was also starring in a film called Chaos Theory, “about a guy who leads a very organised life, and someone comes into that life and just sets a downward spiral in motion”, Ventimiglia admitted that he was playing a villain both times.
“I'm the bad guy [in Chaos Theory],” he said. I'm not really a good guy in Game either... Kind of two bad-guy roles for the holidays for me.”
Ventimiglia is quite an intense actor, so a bad-guy role should fit him well. And, of course, he can shoot both these movies because, right now, Heroes is one of the victims of the Writers’ Strike in the States and is on indefinite hiatus.
To read the rest of the interview on EW.com, click here.