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From 2013 to 2016, he played the title role in the British television drama series Mr Selfridge, the semi-fictional story based on the life of Harry Selfridge, who founded the London department store Selfridge's. The show aired on the ITV network in the United Kingdom and on PBS in the United States. McKay was one of the writers for the film The Campaign , and produced the film Daddy's Home , the latter of which reunited The Other Guys stars Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and was directed by Sean Anders. McKay also rewrote the script for the Marvel Studios feature film Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed; McKay had initially been in talks to direct the film following Edgar Wright's departure, but opted not to out of respect for Wright. McKay also worked with Reed, Paul Rudd, Gabriel Ferrari & Andrew Barrer on Ant-Man and the Wasp to flesh out the story.

After having paid his way through college with his film salaries, Piven was dismayed when a talent agent discouraged him from settling in Hollywood permanently. "She said to me, 'Look, Jeremy, you're probably not going to work until you're in your 40s.'" he recalled in the interview with Riley in Back Stage West . McKay began venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s. The Big Short was his first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. For this film, McKay was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film  Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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.

Or most of the four decades of his career as an actor, Jeremy Piven played That Guy. As in, “Oh look, it’s That Guy who played the cousin with anger issues on the 1990s sitcom Ellen! It’s That Guy who played the awful check-out clerk in the film Singles! ” Or, most of all, “Oh look, it’s That Guy who always plays John Cusack’s obnoxious friend” .
Next, Wilson will be seen in 12 Mighty Orphans and The Cleaner. Outside of acting, he was the host of ABC's 2020 docuseries, Emergency Call. Piven made his film debut in a 1986 teen romance, Lucas , which starred Corey Haim and featured a few other unknowns, including Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder. By then Cusack was beginning to land starring roles in similar projects, and Piven appeared with Cusack in One Crazy Summer , which also starred a young Demi Moore. He also had a supporting role in the cult-favorite Cusack teen romance, Say Anything , in 1989. A year later he appeared in The Grifters , and had a small role in The Player in 1992, both of which were Oscar-nominated films.
Other women that he dated before included Vanessa Marcil , Nikki Benz, and Camilla Cleese . Don is taking stock in his life when Ivy questions him about one of his jobs in Albuquerque. He tells her he killed his best friend and team Jeremy Piven DJ, McDermott , by giving him a bag with sex toys instead of a parachute. Don was more focused on having sex with his customer than selling cars. He then reveals to Ivy that he is falling for her and it is all happening again.

It's a nostalgic  trip for those of us who were teens/twenties in the 90s, like Airheads, SFW, or Singles. But even during his Entourage glory days, Piven's film career failed to take off despite starring roles in Smokin' Aces and RocknRolla. And post-Entourage, his cinematic output became even more obscure with the notable exception of the Entourage movie in 2015. Which, lest we forget, was a box-office bomb and signaled the end of the show's waning popularity.
Entourage debuted on the cable channel in July of 2004 and immediately garnered critical accolades. The storyline was loosely based on the early years of actor Mark Wahlberg's career, one of the series' producers, and the friends who came with him to Hollywood from his Boston hometown. On the show, the hot new heartthrob actor is Vincent Chase , whose posse includes his older brother, an actor whose career seems to be skidding downhill as Vincent's is taking off; the part was given to Kevin Dillon, real-life brother of actor Matt Dillon. Also eager to spend Vincent's money is a dope-smoking, X-Box-addicted layabout named Turtle . The foursome was rounded out by Eric , Vincent's level-headed manager, who is often mocked for his last paid job, as manager of a Sbarro pizza outlet back in Queens. Piven's role was originally a small one as Vincent's new agent, a powerful Hollywood deal-maker named Ari Gold who was loosely based on Wahlberg's onetime agent, a notorious industry figure named Ari Emanuel.
Piven's acerbic comic skills emerged when he played a television writer on the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show . His first starring role came in the college farce PCU in 1994, in which he played a perennial student and natural-born disruptor in the send-up of political  correctness on college campuses. He spent the rest of the decade in supporting roles in such fare as Miami Rhapsody, Grosse Pointe Blank , and Kiss the Girls . There was also a three-year stint on Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom as her cousin, Spence, out of which Piven was offered his own hour-long series on ABC, Cupid , which debuted in the fall of 1998.