-My first guest tonight is an Emmy-nominated actor.
He stars in "This is Us", which airs Tuesdays at 9 PM on NBC.
Everyone, please welcome Milo Ventimiglia!
Come on! [ Laughs ]
Look at you, man! That's what I'm talking about.
See. -What's up, man?
-Come on, buddy.
I appreciate you coming back to the show.
Last time you were on the show,
I don't know if you remember this, I actually gave you
my wife's phone number by mistake.
-How can I forget? How can I forget
when anybody gives me their wife's phone number?
-[ Laughs ]
We were talking and
I wanted to see if you had a picture of you.
-I was Evel Knievel. -So I love Evel Knievel,
and it was you dressed up --
it was a screen test for Evel Knievel,
and you're like, "I'll send it to you, but don't show it."
And I go, "Yeah, because it's us."
I go, "Great," and I couldn't remember my number,
so I go, and I just rattled off my number,
which I thought was mine, but it was my wife's.
And it halfway through -- -And so,
I sent -- yeah, so I send the photo of me, full dressed --
this is like, my camera test of Evel Knievel.
Not test -- like, we were two days away from filing.
I was blonde, I was hairy-chested, I was everything.
And yeah, I didn't put anything. I just sent the photo.
Yeah.
-And then I got the, "Who is this?"
-[ Laughs ] I'm sorry. Oh, yeah.
My wife was laughing about it afterwards,
I was like, "I'm sorry, I just gave Milo Ventimiglia
your phone number." That's so weird.
But anyways, we're big fans at the house, so...
-Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure it went over great.
-Is this your office? Or is this --
Where -- -Yeah, this is my office
at home in Los Angeles.
I'm just, you know... Got some artwork on the walls,
some Michael Muller, some stuff.
Just kinda hanging out.
There's things on, like, every wall.
-I'm looking at one sign that I can see
in the upper left-hand corner, because you know I'm a fan
of yours since "Gilmore Girls", and it says...
-Oh, yeah. Yeah, right here.
-"I love..."
"I love Dean?" -It says, uh...
-[ Laughs ] -"I love Dean 4 Ever."
-[ Laughs ]
-And that was the certificate that you get
when you're nominated for an Emmy.
-Oh, my gosh! Is that rubbing it in his face?
What is that? [ Laughs ]
-No, no. Not at all.
I mean, you know, Jared and I are really good friends
and I made the sign for some photograph that was --
somebody was looking for online or something,
and so I made the sign, and after I made it,
I just said, "Well, let me just hang onto this,
because this is cool, and I literally just kind of stuck it
right onto my Emmy notification that was, you know --
hanging on my wall. -It just happened to be there.
Yeah, just, no big deal. It just happened to be there.
-Yeah, no big deal.
[ Laughter ]
-But I want to talk about "This Is Us."
But I also want to thank you for doing the stuff you do
for Red Nose Day on NBC's --
-Yeah. -It's a big deal,
and man, you've been with them for a couple years now,
doing some good work.
-Yeah, I mean, you know, I've been in the NBC family
for a very long time, and NBC has always supported
Red Nose Day, so, you know, in 2019 --
It's wild, I keep thinking 2019 was last year, but it wasn't.
-Yeah, I know.
-But in 2019, I got a chance to actually go and see
how the donations were benefiting these kids
in pretty impoverished places.
And, yeah, we were in Kenya,
and seeing kids getting inoculated
for, like, the very, very simple sickness and disease
that kids shouldn't have to deal with, but, you know,
they're in bad situations.
I really was able to see first-hand what the organization
was doing to better the lives of these kids.
-Well, thank you for doing that.
-I'm still involved with them. Yeah.
-I want to talk about "This Is Us."
You never tell me what's going to happen,
which is, I understand, but my question for you
is, do you know what you're doing?
-This year? -Yeah.
-Yeah, do I know what I'm doing.
-No, I mean, you definitely know what you're doing.
But... -Usually,
Dan Fogelman, he'll come to set -- and this is the difference
between, let's say, COVID set versus normal filming set.
In a COVID set, Fogelman doesn't visit,
so we don't get that sitting around the campfire,
Dan, having just walked out of the writer's room,
saying, "You guys want to know what happens in the next
7 or 8 or 9 episodes?"
So, we don't really have that this year,
so I'm kind of, like, in the dark.
-I know that next season is supposed to be
the final season. The series finale.
-That's what we're hearing, yeah.
-Yeah. So, do you know anything about that?
Or is this the way -- -Oh yeah, totally.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, of course you do.
I do want to show a clip -- here's Milo Ventimiglia
in tomorrow night's episode of "This Is Us."
Take a look.
♪♪
-Hey, man.
-Hey.
-Hey, so I got the hot chocolate.
-Uh-huh. -I got the corn syrup
for the candy apples, and I bought every box
of string lights they had at the hardware store.
-What a guy.
-Hey, do me a favor and look at this.
I mean, did I get these letters even?
-Yeah.
You spelled "carnival" wrong.
[ Laughs ] I'm kidding. No.
It looks great, man.
-Great's not good enough, Miguel.
I need this proposal to be perfect.
-Jack, you are recreating your first date with Rebecca
in her apartment. It's exactly the kind of
romantic gesture that makes other guys hate you.
-Come on, other guys don't hate me.
-Yeah, they do.
-[ Laughs ]
-Yeah, they do. -No, they don't.
We love you.
Hey, you got to give my best to Mandy as well,
because I know she's a new mom and that's so cool
We love her. -It's exciting.
She actually -- baby Gus was set the other day, last week --
it was exciting. It was exciting to see her
as a mom. I mean, we've been playing parents for so long,
but, like -- yeah, she's a mom. She's a real mom.
-[ Laughs ] That's fantastic.
Give her my best.
Milo Ventimiglia, everybody!