- Thanks for being here. Thanks for dressing up.
- I really appreciate it. - He fell for it.
We all said we were going to wear suits,
and he actually wore one.
My memo said we were wearing suits.
I don't know what happened to you guys.
- Well, you all look nice, but you look the nicest.
- Thank you. - You really are.
- Overdresser. - I did, yeah.
So this is very exciting. I mean, I don't know what took--
it took forever to get this movie made,
and were you as anxious as your fans were?
Well, I mean, it's not "Boyhood".
Yeah, I mean, it took a little while, but, you know,
you wait for perfection, you know?
It's a really good movie.
- We were waiting on the script,
so we were waiting for Doug Ellin to write it,
and he wrote a great one.
- Took him like a year to write the script
- or something like that. - Well, you were here,
I think, in 2011, and you said,
"Oh, we're going to start any day now."
- I thought we were. - Yeah.
- I had no idea it was going to take this long.
- Yeah. Now did you hang out in between, like,
shooting the show and shooting the movie?
- Do you see each other? - At the Entourage mansion.
- That's a cool house, by the way, wherever that is.
- Houses. - Oh, really?
- Where I'm always moving every episode, and then--
- That looks like the same-- it's not the same house?
- That--that Spanish house?
- There's been a couple different ones.
- Oh. - Yeah.
- Upgrades. - Yeah.
- And your house that you live-- - And then his, yeah.
- We should tell--before we keep talking about this,
I assume everyone has seen "Entourage", but tell everyone
what it's about.
- Hmm.
- Well, I play Vincent Chase.
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- It's about me. - Big movie star.
- Yeah, I play a big movie star
who takes care of all of my friends from back east,
and then move them all out into the big house.
- The show is called "Entourage".
- Yeah. - Movie star and his friends.
- It's really about them. - Yeah.
- I play a struggling older brother
who's also an actor trying to get by.
- I play his childhood friend who never really
quite found his way in life until later on,
and was definitely enjoying the ride
of a movie star's success.
- I played his childhood buddy who then went on
to become his manager, and that's why I'm all dressed up.
- The suit. - The suit.
- That's why. - Super suit.
- By the way, is this couch big enough?
- I was going to say. - I know. My shoulders are--
- It's very snug. - Very snug.
- Got a little bigger-- - Yeah, you're so--
Thank goodness you're not your size.
- You never would fit in this. - Yeah, exactly.
- This would be a different-- - Let's talk about that.
You really have lost a whole lot of weight.
Was that an issue at all? Did Doug care about that?
- I'm not gonna lie. He did.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- In hindsight, looking back,
it wasn't, like, this big choice to lose weight.
I just really was feeling awful, like, physically.
I needed to get healthier,
and didn't realize it was going to end up being this dramatic.
He actually did ask me to gain some weight back
for the movie and I said, "I'm going to charge you per pound.
It's going to be very expensive."
So he said, "Fine. Keep it off.
And I'll just have to write skinny jokes."
There's even a fat joke in the trailer, still.
Like, "You used to be fat." He still managed to work one in.
- It was also very gradual.
It's not like one day he showed up.
I mean, it was over the course, right?
- Of a couple of years. - Three years.
- No, he came back from the off season...
- Yeah. - About 25 pounds lighter.
- Good for you for taking care of yourself.
If you weren't feeling healthy, good for you
- for taking care of yourself. - Changed my life
in a lot of ways. I feel fantastic.
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- Hard to commit to that and stay.
- It really is.
- So, needless to say, "Entourage" has changed
all of your lives.
I mean, this is beyond
what anybody would have expected it to be.
- Yeah. - No, it's true.
I mean, I-- and the funny thing is though,
like, I have so many opportunities
that I would never have had otherwise.
So it's, you know, it's a real honor.
And also to be on a show that defined an era, you know?
- And it's continuing still. - Yeah.
Yeah, any time as an actor, you are--
you have a job for 12 years, with the same people,
I mean, it's lightning in a bottle.
- It's a good gig. Good gig. - We're a lucky bunch.
- Yeah. - The best acting gig
- of my career for sure. - Me, too. Yeah.
- "The Blob" character was pretty cool that I did.
- Yeah. - There's nothing that--
Nothing's been better than this.
- And it's nice to like the guys you work with, too.
- Yeah. - Imagine if we didn't
- like each other. - Yeah.
- You'd still work together but, yeah, it would be harder.
- Still work together.