MILO VENTIMIGLIA - FILM ROLE TEACHES VENTIMIGLIA TO BE A BETTER GUY

HEROES star MILO VENTIMIGLIA's latest movie role has helped make him a better person and a better boyfriend - because it taught him not to take life and loved ones for granted. The actor plays a twisted forensics expert in thriller Pathology and researched the part by studying real dead bodies. And the time he spent in a Los Angeles morgue, working with a coroner, has made Ventimiglia realise just how precious life is. He explains, "I watched 19 autopsies and saw a few hundred dead bodies. "To see a shell that used to have a life in it just changes your perspective on things. "Having the opportunity to have a conversation, shake someone's hand, hug your family or kiss a girl, it's so much more important now." Ventimiglia is dating his Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere.