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Why we love the often shiftless and always absorbing Milo Ventimiglia By Brandon Voss
WHEN TINA TURNER SAID we don't need another hero, she obviously had never met Milo Ventimiglia, who plays power-absorbing Peter Petrelli on NBC's hit sci-fi series Heroes (season 3 starts September 22). Also loved for his roles as Jess on Gilmore Girls and Rocky's son in 2006's Rocky Balboa, the 31-year-old heartthrob reveals why gay fans have always been powerless to resist him, and how he's saving the world-one shirtless scene at a time.
Welcome to your Big Gay Following interview. Thanks, man. I was excited to hear you guys wanted to do something with me. I'm completely flattered.
When did you first realize you had gay fans? I was about 19 or 20 years old. I'd done a short film when I was 18 called Must Be the Music, where I played a gay teenager. I was shopping with my mom and dad one weekend, and these two gay guys came up and said they thought I was great. That was actually the very first time I'd ever been recognized for anything. I'm glad that it was my first because it wasn't the standard 14-year-old girl chasing me down; it was men who were fans of the work.
After Gilmore Girls made you a heartthrob, you played gay...