Instead, he grabbed one of the plastic-and-metal blue folding chairs that the crew members used.
“I wanted to remember the crew,” he summed up at the time.
Turns out, he’d wind up with a few more reminders of them.
As in: their presence every day on set.
“And people are like, ‘Yeah, I’d love to.’
The prevalence of familiar faces on theCompanyset was appreciated by the crew.
And I was like, ‘Yeah, of course I did!'”
The benefits went beyond feel-good familiarity; it helped to create a shorthand during the pilot shoot.
“One, it sets up a positive environment,” shares Ventimiglia.
“Two, it sets up a reliable environment.
I know their level of creative.
I know their level of respect to those that they’re working with.
Catherine was like, ‘Milo, it’s so great you brought your crew fromThis Is Us.’
I said, “This isyourcrew.
You will look at them as your crew, and they look at you as your crew.
Just give it the time.’
And everybody’s feeling that.”
(In other words, no fantastic fathers, no devoted husbands.)
Might a former Pearson family member pop up as a grifter or target?
I read stories of [how] everybody else [is] busy, you know?
I’m sure at some point people will pop up.”
Ventimiglia’s character will have plenty to worry about in this 10-episode first season.
(And with her job being a national security-level secret, she’s doing the same with him.)
The Company You Keeppremieres Feb. 19 on ABC.
