"Aw, man. Toast," he said while driving through his neighborhood. Though the This Is Us alum knew ahead of time that his house did not withstand the fire, he said it was "heavy" to see the wreckage in person. "Man, it hits you so quick," he said as his voice broke. "You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and whatnot, and then you see your neighbors' houses... and your heart just breaks."
"I think there's a kind of shock moment where you go, Oh, this is real, and this is happening," Ventimiglia recalled. "And then, at a certain point, we just turned it off. It's like, what good is it to continue watching? We kind of accepted the loss."
"We got good friends, and we got good people we're working with, and we'll make do. We'll make do," he said. "Wife and baby and dog are most important."
This experience motivated him to do the same for wildfire safety, specifically. Incidentally, just as Ventimiglia became an advocate for fire safety after his character, Jack, died in one in This Is Us.
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