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Civil Interview: Jerry Ferrara Talks ‘Entourage’ Legacy & Hip-Hop’s Importance To The Show

Posted on May 22nd, 2015
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Who’s been your favorite guest star from the series?

Jerry Ferrara: I think James Cameron isn’t necessarily my favorite, but I think he’s been the most important. Early on in the show, we’re trying to legitimize this world, and then you hear about a movie called Aquaman, and you think it’s the least likely superhero movie that they would make. Then comes James Cameron’s Aquaman movie, and you’re like, “Shit, I wanna see that.” In terms of favorites, I loved the ones like Andrew Dice Clay and Bob Saget who played heightened versions of themselves. It’s hard to choose, because there’s also the athletes like LeBron James, the Yankees, and so many more.

If you could form your own entourage, who would you pick for it?

Jerry Ferrara: I always say, in a way, that Frank Sinatra basically kind of created the ‘entourage’ phrase and theory. I’m not trying to compare us to the rat pack, because the rat pack is legendary, but I would just take all the guys of the rat pack and roll with them. Those guys could roll in any generation. Frank Sinatra would still be a pop star today, easily, if they just discovered him in Hoboken as a 14-year-old crooner. Those are the guys I would like to pluck out in a time machine and bring back.

The Entourage series ending was definitely tough on fans, and this movie might feel kind of final to them. Do you feel the same way at all?

Jerry Ferrara: When it ended as a show, I was intitally, obviously, in an emotional roller coaster during that final day with them. I was fortunate that I had a job waiting for me two weeks later with Think Like A Man. I had a great distraction, but I kind of started from the beginning. Just as I started to crack into movies, that’s when I really said that something was missing in my life. It was the fact that every February, we started shooting Entourage. So that’s when it started to set in that it was really over, but it never quite died for me. It’s always been around, so I wasn’t sure if it was real or if it was a ghost. It was real, though, and we were fortunate enough to make the movie.

Where do you hope to see the Entourage legacy in 5 years?

Jerry Ferrara: I honestly don’t want to see it end ever. I’ve gained a lot of perspective in the two years we were off the air, and the year in making the movie. My perspective is: whatever other things I wanted for my career, it just may not get better than what we’ve had for eight years, and what we have with the movie. So I’m just going to keep doing it until they tell me I can’t. In terms of an end, I guess the only way for that to happen is for the guys to go their separate ways. It never happened fully, but I guess marriage, family, and maturing will do it for them.

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