Jeremy Piven Is Really Who You Want

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.
On top of being mocked by blogs and late night shows, his co-star Elisabeth Moss called him "unprofessional," which only added to his reputation as an on-set diva. Oddly enough, an arbitrator would rule in Piven's favor that he didn't violate his contract. But according to The New York Times, he won because producers dragged their feet on hiring their own physician to question Piven's doctor's "fishy" diagnosis. Later that month, Anastasia Taneie, who worked as an extra on Entourage, alleged that Piven "confronted her in a dark hallway and groped her breast and genitals as he forcefully pushed her against a wall". On November 27, 2017, CBS decided not to order a full season of Wisdom of the Crowd following weak ratings and allegations of sexual harassment involving Piven. On August 1, 2019, Piven appeared on a KTVU morning news segment to promote a standup comedy show he was to perform in the next night in San Francisco.

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.
In 2020, the former producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault. Then, in Feb. 2023, Weinstein was also sentenced to 16 additional years for his rape and sexual assault conviction in Los Angeles. The press tour for Sweetwater has already commenced with Piven giving interviews on Good Morning America and Sherri Shepherd’s daytime talk show Sherri. Neither Spencer nor Shepherd asked about Piven’s allegations. In January 2018, BuzzFeed published an article in which three more women accused Piven of "sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior". BuzzFeed News corroborated the stories with eight people who said the women had shared the encounters with them in the years since.
Pearl also starred in a second video titled Good Cop, Baby Cop. In March 2023, it was revealed that McKay's next project would be titled Average Height, Average Build, a political satire focused on a serial killer. The film is set to star Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr., Forest Whitaker, and Danielle Deadwyler.

He received Emmy nominations for Best Supporting Actor for four straight years, from 2005 to 2008, and won the award in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He also received Golden Globe nominations for the role from 2005 to 2010, and won in 2008. He has appeared in a number of films with John Cusack, who is also from Evanston and is a fellow alumnus of the Piven Theatre Workshop (as are Cusack's sisters Joan and Ann). Piven and Cusack once shared an apartment and have been friends since high school.
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.
During his senior year, he left Tisch to pursue his acting career. Apart from that, the comedian spent a semester at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. Currently, Jeremy is an alumnus of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

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.
McKay and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In 2022, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for his latest work on the apocalyptic comedy film Don't Look Up. Playing the part of Mark, Nicole's boyfriend, Craig Kilborn plays a combative character in Old School.

As a child growing up in Chicago, the eight-year-old Piven climbed on stage at the Piven Theatre Workshop, founded by his father, Byrne, and mother, Joyce Piven. He is still very active with this workshop and returns to Chicago frequently to help keep his parents’ dream alive. The Spider-man actor stars in and is executive producing a new thriller from the writer of A Beautiful Mind due to hit AppleTV+. When BuzzFeed News published a first report about sexual misconduct allegations against Piven, he called reporters directly and commented on the “due diligence” of their reporting.
Cusack, Skye, Crowe and executive producer James L. Brooks are set to reunite for a panel discussion following a screening of the movie at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 30 in celebration of the pic's 30th anniversary. Lili Taylor, Loren Dean, Pamela Adlon , Jeremy Piven, Eric Stoltz, Bebe Neuwirth and Chynna Phillips also starred in the film, which was Cameron Crowe's directorial debut. See what 'Say Anything' stars John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney and more have been up to since the Cameron Crowe-directed film hit theaters on April 14, 1989. Will is an entertainment writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. His writing can also be found in The Playlist, Cut Print Film, We Got This Covered, The Young Folks, Slate and other outlets. He also co-hosts the weekly film/TV podcast Cinemaholics with Jon Negroni and he likes to think he's a professional Garfield enthusiast.
He starred as Trevor Hale, the deity whose mission is to play matchmaker for a hundred couples before he can find true love himself on Earth. In his mortal guise, he recounts his own dating travails to a therapist , who harbors a secret crush on him. "Piven gives the sort of motormouth wise-guy performance that sometimes makes you want to slap his smirky little face," wrote Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker, who nevertheless deemed the series a "charming" one, both "lively and funny." Actor Jeremy Piven spent nearly 20 years of his career in supporting roles, and though he was a familiar face to movie-goers, was never considered a box-office draw. His fortunes, however, improved immensely when he began playing Ari Gold, the caustic Hollywood agent on the hit HBO series Entourage , and won an Emmy for his second season in the role in 2006.