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The press were given headphones so we could hear the scene as they did take after take of the entourage turning a corner and driving to Ari’s office. Turtle and Drama were arguing over who got to wrangle girls for the screening of Vince’s movie. Turtle complained that the last time Drama handled invites, they ended up with “nursing home rejects.” When E and Vince wanted to focus on work, Turtle asserted that “everything we do is also to get laid.” So they may have been gone for a few years, and Vince may have graduated to directing, but the boys are still the boys.
Or, maybe Turtle was overcompensating. Ferrara would tell us that this visit with Ari is different than any in the series. “Now Ari’s running the studio so it’s a bit different trip to Ari’s office,” Ferrara said. “Where it used to be Ari works for us, now we’re walking into the studio where we work for Ari. So it’s very much that Entourage walk to go see Ari except the circumstances are totally different.”
When director Doug Ellin called cut and the actors exited the vehicle, Connolly was sporting a cast on his foot, injured the previous week. Connolly would explain this happened in another cameo-laden scene of the film.
“We were doing a scene where we’re playing football on the beach,” Connolly said. “Russell Wilson, who is actually a Superbowl-winning quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks threw me a pass. I just came down the wrong way and ended up breaking my fibula in two places. It hurts. It feels good when it’s elevated like this though.”
In between takes, we would get to speak with the five main cast members and director Ellin. Some tried to spread a rumor about a Johnny Drama nude scene. Grenier said that’s how the film would earn its R rating.
“There certainly will be some language, some nudity and some Johnny Drama full frontal,” Grenier said. “Actually, it should be banned. We should ban this movie. Nobody wants to see Johnny Drama’s anything nude.”
For his part, Dillon was clear that he did not actually expose himself on set. This is movie magic. “You won’t actually be seeing my personal privates,” Dillon said. “Let’s just say there’s prosthetics involved.”
Perhaps the Chase boys were just having a little fun at the press’s expense. Ellin denied any such Johnny Drama full frontal scene. “Not on this movie,” Ellin said. “Not on my watch.”
The Entourage movie picks up immediately after the series finale, which means Ari running the studio and E and Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui) trying to work things out. Not everything is status quo though. The series ended with Vince proposing to reporter Sophia (Alice Eve), but the movie will see him free to pursue other ladies. Eve even told us that she’s not in the movie. Eve was okay with it, and Grenier said Sophia has no hard feelings either.
“Vince, I don’t know how he does it but he lives a charmed life,” Grenier said. “Somehow the women in his life always leave happy. There’s a mutual respect and understanding between Vince and Sophia so no broken hearts. Just good will and it didn’t work out, see you next time.”
When we last saw Drama, he was voicing the hit animated show Johnny’s Bananas. The film has to pull the rug out from under Drama yet again. “Johnny’s Bananas kind of went south which of course bums out Drama a little bit,” Dillon said. “It just wasn’t doing good numbers. It was getting lower numbers than reruns of Lassie on Animal Planet. That was actually a line that’s no longer in the script so at least I can use it with you guys.”
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