Of course, Vince looks out for Drama, giving him a role in Hyde. “He plays one of the few humans in the movie,” Dillon said. “He always gets a little piece of everything Vince does. He feels this is the best piece he’s gotten in a while and thinks it might be able to take his career to the next level. He’s kind of got a juicy role. He’s hoping that it changes things for him.”
In between setups, Connolly actually came to talk to us three separate times, so it feels like we should use a quote from each interview. The first time he spoke with us, he explained how the film was working around his injury.
“My jeans are weird,” Connolly said. “My jeans have been altered to fit the cast and we’ve been shooting around it. We’re certainly not writing it into the script. We’re just dealing with it. It’s good that it happened later on as opposed to early on. We probably would’ve had to shut down but it was enough to where we could just get through it.”
The second time Connolly came back, he spoke about the ambiguous ending for E and Sloan on the show. Many viewers assumed they were back together and going to get married and raise their child together. Connolly said that was never the intention.
“It’s funny because people would come up to me and make reference to us being back together,” Connolly said. “That was not my understanding. I was always of the opinion that the ending was ambiguous and we were going to try to work it out, but it didn’t feel like we were back together, and it turns out that Doug agreed with me. So that’s where the characters are. They want to do the right thing by their newborn baby, so they’re just trying to see if they can figure it out and get past some of the terrible things that they’ve done to each other, so that’s their struggle.”
Ellin would clarify that he may have meant to give them a happy ending in the series, but he changed his mind as the movie demanded. “I think that’s the expectation that you had, but I went with where I went,” Ellin said. “That was kind of how we left it off. When I ended the show, I didn’t think oh, let’s leave it open for a movie. I tried to end the show. The Ari thing left it open but everyone else I closed off.”
The third time Connolly spoke with us he shared a secret about Kevin Dillon. “My favorite thing to do is watch him eat,” Connolly said. “This guy was blessed with the metabolism. It’s unbelievable what this guy can eat and it doesn’t go anywhere. Kevin is our commander in chief on the set. He’s the veteran and we all look to him.”
Jeremy Piven was the last actor to set, as he joins the scene after the boys park the car and go to his office. He sported a Dolce and Gabbana suit, nothing but the best for Ari Gold. He may be stressing over Vince’s first cut of Hyde though.
“I think one of the cool things that I hung my hat on with a character like Ari Gold was that he had so much loyalty to Vince,” Piven said. “I think that he believes in him, clearly, from the first time he saw him on a Mentos commercial back in the day. So he will back anything that he wants to do creatively. So Ari will go to the mat for his client, as you saw during the run.”
Even for a mover and shaker like Jeremy Piven, the cameos in the Entourage movie blow him away. “The cameos are insane,” he said. “When you’re looking over and you’re playing a scene with Liam Neeson and he’s flipping you off. When you’ve got Kelsey Grammer and Ed O’Neill and every pro athlete and hip-hop star in the world, it just goes on and on and on. And Jessica Alba is leaning into me, just crushing me and it’s so fun. I don’t know if there is a contest for cameos, but I’d like to enter us into that contest.”
Entourage opens June 3rd, 2015. Stay tuned for more interviews with the cast on CraveOnline.
Fred Topel is a staff writer at CraveOnline. Follow him on Twitter at @FredTopel.
