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010 JUNE 2015 JB Hi-Fi
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After playing a fictional movie
idol on TV for eight years,
Entourage ’s Adrian Grenier
confesses he still feels like he is
Vinnie Chase: “Sometimes I’m in a
meeting and I have a déjà vu, where
I start looking for the cameras. Am I
in the show or am I in real life?”
As a TV series, Entourage ran
for seven years, a sort of Sex
and the City for blokes. After four
years off the air, the guys have
finally reunited on the big screen,
alongside a slew of guest cameos
including Jessica Alba, Liam Neeson
and of course Mark Wahlberg,
whose Hollywood lifestyle inspired
the original series.
Of all of Entourage’s stars,
including Jerry Ferrara’s Turtle, Kevin
Connolly’s E and Kevin Dillon’s
Johnny Drama, Jeremy Piven’s
brash agent Ari Gold is perhaps the
most memorable for his tantrums
and expletive-ridden insensitivity.
Meeting with a meek Piven
today, he says he’s still fighting
against public perception that he
and Gold are one and the same.
“In real life I’m just a softy. There
are yellers and screamers in the
business and folks who are not
necessarily loyal, but
that’s not me,” he
says. “When people
don’t know me, they get
confused why I’m not a rageholic,
why I’m not this offensive, fast
talking, abrasive Hollywood agent.
Some of the lines I have to say to
Lloyd, I would blush just saying out
loud in front of you.”
It comes as no surprise to learn
that the actors have become as
close in real life as their screen
alter-egos. “There is this brotherly
rapport. They have my back,
sometimes to a fault," Grenier
reveals. "One time there was a girl
I was dating and it didn’t work out
but the guys were all offended on
my behalf and were freezing her out
when they saw her. It was touching
that they cared so much but I had
to call off the dogs and tell them to
cool it." Gill Pringle
• Entourage is in cinemas June 4
LOOK WHO'S BACK!
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning director of Birdman, takes an all-star cast deep into
uncharted territory in his next eagerly anticipated film, The Revenant. Set in the 1820s, Leonardo
DiCaprio saddles up as frontiersman Hugh Glass, who suffers a mishap and is left for dead by his
companion John Fitzgerald, played by Tom Hardy. With steely resolve, Glass undertakes an epic
journey through hostile terrain to exact revenge on Fitzgerald. This grim tale of obsession and survival
is based on a true story, and with Iñárritu at the helm, it's already been tipped as a 2016 Oscar
contender. The Revenant is set to hit Australian cinemas in the first week of 2016.
That was then,
the last episode of
Entourage, 2011
This is now,
Entourage, The
Movie, out now!
In the meantime, don't miss Alejandro G. Iñárritu's dazzling, Oscar-winning triumph Birdman, set to hit JB Hi-Fi shelves on June 11.
Check out our feature in this issue, on page 38, and the review on page 48.
INTO THE WILD
Check out more Cinema Buzz and
cinema reviews on page 22
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Leonardo
DiCaprio on set in The Revenant