Milo Ventimiglia Says He Was The First Person To Ever Swear To Mandy Moore

Milo Ventimiglia again Mandy Moore may have played one of TV’s most beloved couples, Jack and Rebecca Pearson, in This is us — but that didn’t stop the cast from having a “hot” moment.

Ventimiglia, 47, recalled that the actors had become characters while filming the fight scene that Moore, 40, swore by.

“So I’ll start by saying of course, Mandy Moore is one of the kindest people, she is who you see her to be. Lovely, kind, beautiful, wonderful. Mandy Moore has never been cursed in her life,” Ventimiglia shared on the Wednesday, October 16 episode of the “This Was Us” podcast.

Walking in, Moore laughed as he confirmed, “Yeah, nobody ever said ‘f–you’ to me.”

Ventimiglia went on to explain that he and Moore were filming a scene This is us that required Jack and Rebecca to get involved in a heated argument.

However, both of them are so caught up in the moment that they go outside and insult each other.

“In the middle of the take, things were going my way, I think, like Jack, I was feeling. I was a little defensive,” Ventimiglia explained. “I think he might have dropped an F-bomb, and at one point I was going back and forth at the end of the chase, and I was like, ‘F— you! ‘”

He continued, “And I was starting to look away but Mandy really had it [put her] his finger under my chin pulled my face back. And what did he say?… I know what he said, he said, ‘Look at me in the face of the—in the face!”

For his part, Moore admitted, “It got hot, it got a little warm,” and added, “Listen, sometimes you have to go there.”

While the scenes were ultimately left out of the cut due to the show’s profanity restrictions, Ventimiglia described the take as “awesome” and said he still has some unfinished footage somewhere.

The two played Jack and Rebecca, parents of unique triplets, in the NBC series from 2016 to 2022. The tear-jerking drama follows a family through the good times and the bad through the various decades of their lives. Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley and Chrissy Metz star as the adult versions of the Pearson triplets.

Moore and Ventimiglia’s on-screen chemistry made them an instant fan favorite and highly regarded. They also form really strong friendships, often complimenting each other.