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For the past 11 weeks, Milo Ventimiglia has brought the X-Men�s resident berserker to life as the voice of Logan in �Wolverine� on G4, and this Friday he brings the series home in its exciting conclusion premiering at 11:30 p.m. ET.

Looking back to the very beginning, Ventimiglia first became involved in the series for one very simple reason.

�I got a phone call from [EVP/Head of Television] Jeph Loeb,� the actor recalls. �He called me up and said, �I want you to voice Wolverine in an anime series.� I said, �Okay,� and that was about it. It was honestly that easy. I mean Jeph can call me up and ask for anything, but to call me up and ask me for something [this] cool, I was definitely in.�

At first, though, Ventimiglia had to experiment quite a bit in order to nail his own take on Wolverine�s voice, which has been interpreted countless times throughout animation and video games.

�Finding Logan�s voice was pretty challenging,� elaborates Ventimiglia. �I remember the first couple lines we recorded I just turned into the booth and I�m like, 'All right, that�s not it, let�s do some screaming and some grunting, let me get some gravel on my voice.' I�d tried it even by myself, just thinking about how I would talk, and then I didn�t want it to sound like it was forced�it had to come out natural, it had to come out as Logan. And different than people who�ve voiced him [in the past], from the Australian version of Logan to [Steve Bloom], who�s got a great Wolverine voice. It was kind of in the middle of paying homage, [but] also I have to own it myself.�

The show�s unique animation style also gave Ventimiglia more room to look for his own interpretation of the character.

�It was all very different than any Wolverine /Logan comic I�d ever seen,� he relates. �So automatically I thought, �Okay, this is different. This is something where I can take a little liberty to play [him] differently, to play [him] younger. [But] he still needs to have that edge. He still needs to have that pissed-off nature, but we can play him lighter at times, humorous at times.�