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“I was never one to trip or fall or pass gas or anything like that,” the This Is Us star and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Emmy nominee, 41, tells PEOPLE for Editor-in-Chief Jess Cagle’s The Jess Cagle Exercise. “My mouth gets me in trouble.”
“I’ve got a pretty f–kin’ foul mouth,” he jokes.
When asked to share the best career advice he’d ever received, Ventimiglia recalls a less-than-stellar audition that had a lasting effect on his acting.
“I was auditioning to play a spy and I guess for whatever reason I put on the eyebrow and I put on this idea of what the spy in this comedy meant to me,” he says. “The casting director stopped me and he said ‘Just be you. We want you.’ It was one of those things that I realized what I bring, or what any actor brings of themselves is unique.”
We’re guessing that happened sometime after his first acting job, which was on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. “I’ve got one line, I’m at a party — go check it out!” he urges.
“I was never one to trip or fall or pass gas or anything like that,” the This Is Us star and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Emmy nominee, 41, tells PEOPLE for Editor-in-Chief Jess Cagle’s The Jess Cagle Exercise. “My mouth gets me in trouble.”
“I’ve got a pretty f–kin’ foul mouth,” he jokes.
When asked to share the best career advice he’d ever received, Ventimiglia recalls a less-than-stellar audition that had a lasting effect on his acting.
“I was auditioning to play a spy and I guess for whatever reason I put on the eyebrow and I put on this idea of what the spy in this comedy meant to me,” he says. “The casting director stopped me and he said ‘Just be you. We want you.’ It was one of those things that I realized what I bring, or what any actor brings of themselves is unique.”
We’re guessing that happened sometime after his first acting job, which was on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. “I’ve got one line, I’m at a party — go check it out!” he urges.
