He has also expressed interest in helming a Silver Surfer movie for Marvel Studios. McKay originally auditioned for Saturday Night Live to be an onscreen performer, but did not make the cut. However, the scripts he submitted earned him a job as a writer from 1995, and within a year McKay became head writer at age 27, a position he held until 2001. He also directed a number of short films for the show, including the original SNL Digital Shorts.
After Entourage, she appeared in the 2017 series Famous In Love and in High Voltage, Plus One and Cosmic Sin. The Old School actress also plays Jennifer Bennet in the 2022 film Murder at Hollow Creek. Entourage is likely Grenier’s best-known role, but he has branched out since with roles in Trash Fire, Marauders and A Christmas Love Story. After a decade without acting in a television series, Grenier joined Netflix's Clickbait series in 2021. [jwplayer ywsHCyQh-zhNYySv2]The entourage ofEntouragewas much larger than just the five main guys that fit on the poster. The cast also consisted of other stars — including Debi Mazar, Constance Zimmer andEmmanuelle Chriqui— who’ve made memorable cameos on the HBO drama.



In the test, he said he never used force to take sexual advantage of a woman and he never grabbed a woman’s genitals without her consent. John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. I audition and, after I find out I've got the job, I call Johnny and say "Hey, man, we're going to be in New Orleans together". And because we've done a bunch of films, people connect the dots. His character Ari in HBO's Entourage is based on real-life Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel. And even if that doesn't earn Piven a part in the next blockbuster, modern TV has been better than the movies for a while now.
So if he can keep his head down and deliver another reliable performance like he did for eight seasons of Entourage, things could soon be looking up for Jeremy Piven. Things got more revealing when Piven is asked if he was still close with the Entourage crew. "Well, you know, we were in two separate worlds . I represented the professional world and they represented the Peter Pan syndrome." For the record, that wasn't a compliment.

Was accused of sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct by eight women in 2017 and 2018, the Entourage actor took a step back from the spotlight. Now, more than five years later, he’s starring in his first noteworthy film since his sexual-assault allegations were made public. Sweetwater — also starring Eric Roberts, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Pollak, Robert Ri’chard, and Everett Osborne — is a biographical movie about basketball player Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, who became the first African-American to play in the NBA. Stoltz appeared in the film as Vahlere, Lloyd and Diane's classmate who throws a party for the graduating seniors.
The illness was revealed to be hydrargyria, a disease caused by exposure to mercury or its compounds, though the source is unknown. Rumours have indicated that the high level of mercury could potentially have been caused by Piven's habit of consuming fish twice a day for the past 20 years. An alternative explanation is that the herbal remedies Piven was taking were responsible Jeremy Piven for his high levels of mercury. In November 2016, McKay began development of the biographical black comedy Backseat, about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his rise to power, though the title was eventually changed to Vice. Starring Christian Bale as Cheney, the film was released in the United States on December 25, 2018, by Annapurna Pictures.

Over the next decade, Piven's career seemed to be stalled in the comic-sidekick/best-friend slot in such films as The Family Man with Nicolas Cage in 2000 and Serendipity a year later, which reteamed him with Cusack. He also appeared in several box-office hits, including Black Hawk Down and Old School , before producers at HBO's original-series division cast him as a manic, ruthless talent agent in the Hollywood-set comedy Entourage . In the role of Peppers, Seann William Scott had a standout cameo in Old School.
However, Piven's party boy reputation hasn't stopped him from having flings with celebrity beauties January Jones, Kelly Brook, and Rachel Hunter, according to the Daily Mail. Piven plays drums and has played on stage with the notable Chicago-based progressive rock / jam band Umphrey's McGee in 2004. Piven starred in the Travel Channel special Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime, which detailed his journey across India. In 2007, Piven appeared in the video for "Drivin' Me Wild", the third single from rapper Common's seventh album, Finding Forever.

The comedian has appeared in countless films with John Cusack. Just like Jeremy, John is also from Evanston and is a fellow alumnus of the Piven Theatre Workshop (as are Cusack’s sisters Joan and Ann). Both Jeremy and John once shared an apartment and have been friends since high school. Piven's role is a dramatic turn from his days playing the smart-mouthed Gold, despite both characters flying off the handle at any given moment. When RadarOnline.com spoke to him on the red carpet, he didn't hesitate to talk about his past, revealing he's not closing the door on an Entourage sequel.
And so that’s kind of what we’re after here, is to do an explored and heightened version of the Entourage show that people know. Since 2017, the actor has appeared in small-budget films like My Dad’s Christmas Date , Last Call , American Night , The Walk , and The System . He’s also toured the country doing stand-up comedy and hosted a podcast called “How U Livin J Piven,” where he interviewed celebrities like Jamie Foxx, Common, Tiffany Haddish, as well as his Entourage co-stars Kevin Connolly, Rex Lee, and Constance Zimmer. (Connolly has also been accused of sexual assault and denied the allegation.) He even interviewed Entourage creator Doug Ellin and spoke about wanting to do a reboot of the HBO series. In 1993, he portrayed George Costanza on the show-within-a-show scene in the two-part Seinfeld episode "The Pilot". He was a supporting cast member on the last three seasons of the sitcom Ellen, where he played Ellen's cousin Spence.