ENTOURAGE REUNION! Kevin Connolly & Kevin Dillon Reminisce Being On-Set, Favorite Cameos & Reboot?

Us in the bathroom at the Golden Globe story.

I'm at the urinal.

James Cameron was in the bathroom.

He could have crazy people.

Or like Ridley Scott or somebody.

Connelly comes walking and what do I say?

All right, cover up, gentlemen.

We got a peeker in here.

You can see everyone covering up.

And everyone goes to. I thought we were going to maybe play a little Jane's Addiction superhero,

being that it's officially Entourage Week.

What's up, Matt? How you doing today?

Entourage Week, the best week of the year.

I'm good, buddy. How are you?

I love that it's Entourage Week.

And yes, we have a real...

It's the show that a lot of you on Twitter have been saying to me. I mean, you guys posted about it in November.
What happened? We're just keeping them on their toes, but it is finally here. It's here.
I'm fired up for people to see this. We got to sit down with Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon, two of my dear friends, who shocked...
I know we even talked about it, I think, in the actual interview, which we'll get get to but you and connelly definitely were around each other in yeah yeah 2000s for sure yeah we we we had a couple a couple interesting hollywood run-ins so i like i mean i've known him forever as i mean i'm probably as long as you as far as just like running in his circle for a little bit um dylan i had never met, which was awesome to hang out with him. He was exactly how you described.
The best. The best, a little crazy, a little off the wall, but like just the best, man.
Like he was just awesome. Like I felt like we were best friends, honestly.
But it was fun. For me, it was really fun just throwing it back because you know it's one of my favorite shows in that time just to see the three of you reminisce the memories the moments just it brought back so much and it was just fun those guys it just it was like you guys have never like you haven't missed a beat just ribbing each other jokes and all that it was awesome it's always something where even even I remember this from the last time we were all together.
I think it was like this past September. When we're all together, it's just different.
I guess in the sports world, it's almost like, you know, back in the day, if you saw Kobe and Shaq, they'd obviously be excited to see Kobe. I'm not comparing us to the Lakers, by the way.
Everyone calm down. But like when you see people who are known for a thing together in their real life outside of that thing, it confuses people.
And I think it's pretty cool. So yeah, they jump on.
It's really now we're prepared for 10,000 reboot questions, which honestly have been happening ever since early, early last year. But you fit right in.
If you haven't seen Matt's audition, by the way,

we put you through the ringer.

It was funny while we were doing it,

but I was trying to lock in.

You took it serious.

I did.

And after we were watching it,

it was actually really, really...

Dylan's just so fucking funny, man.

That was great.

I want to ask you just really quick. I know you guys don't get together very often.
I'm sure you're on a text chat. I'm sure all those things and like that.
But what is it like for you just when you're back with those guys? When I was sitting there with you, and again, this was a couple of months ago, but honestly, when I was sitting there with you and getting to know you now over the last six months,

I saw a different, not even a different side of you, but I saw a side of you that's like,

that was a big, big part of your life. You know what I mean? It was really cool to see

the interaction between you guys. I thought it was pretty neat to see.

We have such a shorthand together. Everything is a memory.
Every story that pops up, it really... And that's why I think you could really tell the test of any friendship, whether it's a former teammate or just a friend from high school, where time will go by because they all have kids.
I have kids. You have kids.
We're all busy. busy time will go by but it's that friend where wherever whether it's a phone call or you see him out or you're together for something and it's like no time has passed and that has always been what it's like i've gone a couple of years even without seeing grenier and then when i see adrian i've i felt like he's been in my life this entire time and I think that really is what the show always tried to do was capture that fun friendship part and I just think we always had that and I don't think it's something you can cast similar with a team I don't think it's something you can draft you hope it happens it's like that magic in a bottle I think championship teams and sports are all about personalities and getting different personalities to mesh.
And just you play for one common goal, right? That's just to win a championship. The same with making a show.
You want to put out the best show and you guys got to mesh and all that. And it is there.
It was very cool to see. I'm going to ask you now, and you just mentioned Reboot, what is the latest with an Entourage Reboot? And will one so in my opinion uh i i never thought it would ever happen and it probably still won't but for the first time for me i could say i see it now i have not seen it since the movie came out and the movie did like and just did okay it wasn't as good as we hoped it would be but a lot of other things were going on then like culture was changing and we so we for a while after the movie became like people forgot and tried to claim like entourage wasn't really a thing we talked horrible to each other and we can't do that stuff again now did we say awful things to each other on the show? Absolutely.
Did it come from a weird place of love? Absolutely. And I do think there will be a show, whether it's an Entourage reboot or some other show that does go back and capture that male adult friendship bromance that I just don't think you have on TV right now.
Is there one? Can you find one right now? There's not. And your show just stands the test of time.
You could turn that show on right now. Cole, my 18-year-old son, college kids now, high school pro, like they could watch that and relate.
And that's what makes a show so great. You always talk about this, how athletes always recognize you.
They were with you at the Fanatics party last week. Turtle from Entourage is an iconic figure.
That's an iconic show. I think, gosh, I just think a reboot, I think something would still translate in today's world, almost even better in today's world because of just access and social.
And now I just like with especially with college kids getting paid there you have their on charge there's just so many different things now that were different 20 years ago i'm all in i'm petitioning now i know there you've you've educated me on the process i know there's a lot of hoops to get through and financial stuff and people signing on all these things but my god did That thing, it thing, to see you guys in your old age as dads. I really do think though, Matt, like I said, I didn't see it even like two, three years ago.
Number one, I had a hard time seeing what these characters would be doing now. And then also, like we said, not trying to even have a big cancel culture conversation, but we had a certain brand of humor that was once acceptable, that at some point society told us wasn't acceptable anymore.
Yeah, but I think one, it's coming back. We're seeing that in all the standup shows now.
A lot of the comics were getting censored. Now they're just like, fuck that, we don't care.
And I feel like there's a corner being turned with you could just like, those are the shows, especially on streaming services and Netflix and all that. Like you can pretty much do whatever you want, I would imagine.
But yeah, I mean, let's do it, dude. I know your guys will be on board.
I feel like I know. And we pitch, we actually, I pitch Connelly a few of like funds, but for the first time, I think in a very long time, probably since the movie, I could actually, I think i know what these characters are up to right now now obviously you're dog ellen's job to figure that out you're filthy rich am i somehow some way nobody knows or i know your whole thing is you blow your money i don't like that i want to keep you rich we'll keep eternal rich i love your wife brie you probably marry some a-list actress in the show.
You know, Connelly. I don't know.
Maybe like Jessica Alba in Turtle. Speaking of really quick, Jessica Alba in Turtle.
I do want to get Emmanuel on. Emmanuel Shrieky, who played Sloan.
Yeah, who played Sloan. I want to get her on just because I'm a fan and I think she's amazing.
But I think, especially this episode airs and all that, I think we got to get her on and just talk shop. Well, shoot, we could do that.
I would love to get her perspective as kind of the lead kind of female in that show as far as just all that. Because I know you guys are all really tight with her.
Plus my brother is like one of my brother's favorite crushes. Entourage didn't have strong female characters according to what the criticisms were after the show was off the air.
And then when I look around, it was Emanuel Shrieky, Constance Zimmer, Debbie Mazar, Beverly D'Angelo, Perry Reeves. It's like, these were all regular parts of the show.
Ari Piven's wife's, what was her name? Perry Reeves. She played Mrs.
Ari. Yeah, she was great great people actually got mad like we didn't even give her a name it was a joke for seven years that her name didn't cut like that was the whole point there you go I didn't even know her name the whole point her real name was Melissa on the show uh so anyway I think without further well you know what we have a little business to do before we get to the entourage guys we gotta hear from our good people at Wendy's I think I know what you're know what you're going to want to talk about today, which I'm fired up about.
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Like me with basketball, massive hockey fan. So fan so diehard hockey fan we're gonna dive into this episode in a second with the entourage guys but before this this hockey four nations face-off is awesome it is must see tv and basically what it is i was just looking this up there's not an all-star game this weekend for the or this past weekend for the nhl so instead of that they did this four nations face off uh four teams it's

canada finland sweden u.s little round robin tournament the finals whatever the finals the

finals are on tonight usa canada but before we dig into that for a second did you see last weekend

three seconds in the just full brawl to start.

It was so wild. I was like,

Thank you. last weekend three seconds in the just full brawl to start it was so wild it almost i was like if i didn't know better the conspiracy part of me was like oh they planned that for the ratings they just wanted they planned in advance no they did it no i think they planned in advance to fight because they don't like each other that's what it was they really there's no love loss there well and that and so the whole conversation last weekend was nba all-star game right and all the negativity and how do you get ratings how to get eyeballs well you just look at and this is the difference i'm not going to dive into nba but the hockey just three seconds in usa maybe is i mean is it fair to say maybe little brother to canada and hockey just i think maybe it It's their national sport.
It's their national sport. Now we've gotten a lot better.
Obviously we're very good, but just, you know, we're behind in the US in hockey traditionally over the past, whatever, 40, 50 years. They hate each other.
And you see the stars playing, which is awesome, right? Getting injured left and right. Guys getting going down.
Mc getting going down david and crosby are playing for i mean the who's who are playing drew dowdy who's a i'm a big fan of drew dowdy plays for the kings and three seconds in they just start the chuck brothers they just start brawling and it gets people fired up people want to see and now what they've done is not the fact they're back in the finals tonight, later on tonight, it's going to, millions of people are going to watch that. Must watch for you.
Must watch, right? It has the Olympic feel. And I think that's the cool, it's about your country.
I think NHL hit a slam dunk doing this thing. It is unbelievable.
To make a Wendy's reference, the NHL to the NBA said, hold my burger. Watch this.
Yes, they did. And let then let me tell you it worked they cat you're right they captured every and it's must watch tomorrow oh tonight is must watch i'll be are you gonna watch it i'll be watching are you kidding words i never thought i'd say unless the stanley cup were on and the rangers were in must watch do you think there will be another i i think there could be a fight i don't think there'll be a fight to to start the game i don't think it'll be the start the game but i think if uh if it's 1-1 or 2-2 in you know mid-third period and it's getting chippy and guys are getting hit left and right yeah i think we're seeing a fight for sure absolutely shout out to the nhl man this no the way, instead of an all-star weekend,

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which has been the best thing they've probably ever done. They weren't afraid to break the tradition.

Oh, this is what we always do.

The problem is you need your best players to buy in,

and that ship has sailed with the NBA.

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Should we settle it today we know this and from the whole crew they are exactly the same height whatever it is but when jerry's saying we're recording are we recording yeah we're live jerry's going to get fitted golf clubs and i said just get two pairs just get two of the exact same by the way i never thought clubhead speeds a lot didn't even know that that was about that. I never thought we'd start this episode with doing a height check, but we got to do a height check.
Do you want to do it? I mean, do you want to do it? And then we're going to do a swing speed check. Let's set this up, okay.
We're going to have to get you senior shafts, Kevin. Now, I don't care about being short.
I've been short my whole life, so it's not a big shock. When people are like, oh, you're so short.
I'm like, yeah, I know, Dick. I've been short my whole life.
Well, that's that's what i was saying i was like i'm just waiting for somebody to acknowledge that this is a meaningless point we have gone these guys back to back so many times on the show in front of the whole crew they're exactly you do same height exactly the same somebody somebody spoofed us i remember they did it and and i was i was a girl a girl played me and someone played they're like how do you feel about playing? I'm like, I'm just happy that they finally acknowledged that I'm taller than Jerry. Do you remember my response to you every time you'd say you were half inch tall? What do I always say? Do you remember? What is it? Yeah, but I just look bigger.
I just feel bigger and taller than you. Do you want to do this right now? By the way, I will say I 100% have shrunk in the last 10 years.

I think Connelly's a little older than you.

He may have shrunk more, though.

There could be shrinkage.

Let's take a look at this.

Yeah, I mean, we've done this a million times.

These guys are identical.

Who's got it?

I would say Connelly's got a little hair are you saying I've used bigger product so can we find the same you're splitting hairs but I would say Connelly probably buy a hair well I tried calling you last week because Matt on the podcast we were talking about the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight and he asked me a question that really that really, I'm like, oh, Connolly would love this question. You would too.
Matt asked, all right, if Jake Paul calls you and Connolly, or even me and you, but let's use me and you, because now we're the same size. And they're like, hey, million apiece.
Fight him at the same time. You and Jerry get in the ring on the undercard of Tyson Paul.
Oh, I thought you were saying let's fight him at the same time. No, I wouldn't want to do that.
That sounds awful. Can I be the ref? How about this? Is there someone that you would want, that you hate so much you dislike? I asked Jared this, that you would actually do, like, I want to go in a boxing match and beat the shit out of him.
I'd rather fight, like, in a bar or something. Yeah.
Who's it in the bar? Not in a bar, but I don't know. Like, a street fight.
I asked you this week, like, who was your arch nemesis. Did I have one? It was Seth Green.
Oh, I was like, the characters would have definitely I saw him two days ago. I saw it.
I saw Seth. You ran into him? Yeah, I got a picture of my phone.
He still leans into the Vinny Chase and the Chasers. He's the best, man.
He's such a good guy. Yeah, he's, well, no, he's, he was telling me he could whoop both of you guys.
Remember, well, remember the fight scene when we had to do the fight scene in Vegas. Do you remember that story? I was trying to tell Matt.
And you were just like, I just can't be whooped by Seth. I don't care what happens.
I just can't be whooped by Seth. Can we all agree no actor wants to get their ass kicked on? Right.
We should have thought about it. So the way it works, you show up and there's a rehearsal, right? So the first thing is a stunt rehearsal.
So we're all sitting there. You remember this? I do.
We're at Body English in the Hard Rock. We have our coffees.
Body English. We're shooting there.
You remember that place, Matt? The cameras are there. Yeah, I remember that.
We're like sitting there and like, all right, all right, rehearsal's up. And then the stuntmen go through the thing.
I see this dude get launched over the balcony. I'm like, whoa, who's that guy? And he's like, oh, yeah, that's you.
I go, fuck. That would never happen.
That's, I said, are you guys serious? What, I'm just going to get bounced off every wall in the place by Seth? On my own show. No chance.
No chance. And Seth's like, well, you could argue I'm doing you guys a favor.
I don't know that I should get bounced off. Right, why are you going to make the cameo get his ass kicked? And then Seth says, let's just see what happens.
Yes. Wow.
Turn it into a nightmare. Seth said, well, let's just roll and see what happens.
So did you fight him? Well, we rolled for half a take. And then I said, yeah, let's see what happens.
So when you roll and you see what happens, you're just obviously off screen. Well, I'm thinking like, you know, Seth is one of those guys that could easily be like a double jujitsu black belt.
True. He's like that guy.
So you were like, damn, I might get my ass kicked. You might actually take this seriously.
Right. Right.
And remember too, like Adrian for a second was like, what do I do? We're like, you do nothing. You stand off to the side.
Drift back to the bar. And you do absolutely, yeah.
No actor wants to get beat up. Have you done scenes where you had to lose a fight? Because Johnny Drama was like a one-shot dude.
Johnny always won. He was the hero of that scene too.
I stepped in and like... You were.
Well, you solved the Seth Green event. Yeah, I'm always there for you guys.
But you've had to take a couple of beatings in your career, right? I've been in movies where I had to lose. Yeah, it sucks.
No, it sucks. Remember? Yeah.
Are you... That was really...
So you don't do... So there's no stunt doubles for those, right? There are.
There are. Although you guys aren't doing like these big crazy action scenes.
And that one that wasn't going to hit me lose, are you like, hey, hit me a little bit here or slap me or something? Yeah, sometimes I'll say, yeah, let's not do it a million times, but let's get one good one for the camera where you could really give me a good slap. Like Tyson slapped Jake Paul.
Like that was a real slap. You guys on the Victory Podcast, did you ever tell the Klitschko fight story? Yeah.
So we could talk about it real quick. All right.
So one of the first live event things we ever shot at, I think even before the Laker game, because it was like episode three. It was the first we shot, you know, HBO did the fights.
We shot at a Klitschko fight, right? And it was the first time we were doing this sort of thing. It's funny because I was at Staples Center two weeks ago and we did that exact walk we do after.

And we're all sitting together in a row

and then Luke Wilson is doing a cameo,

doing us a solid real quick

when we couldn't get cameos at all.

So he's with us.

In the beginning.

So he's with us at the fight

and we see him later.

But we're doing the fight part

and I want to say,

was it all of Klitschko's family

in front of the row in front of us?

There was a Klitschko...

Do you remember it clearly?

No, I just remember.

There was a row of giant... Big guys.
dudes or whatever. So at one point, I feel like they were just standing up a lot during the fight.
And Luke was like, hey, down in front. No, no, wait, wait.
Hold on. No, am I wrong? Kevin Connolly took a piece of paper, crumpled it up, and threw it at them.
And said, hey, sit down. He threw a piece of paper and hit one of the guys no no no do you remember who it hit i threw lennox lewis lennox lewis in the back of the head so you did that as part of the show or just yeah yeah yeah he actually hit lennox lewis or you're just fucking around he did that on his own yeah whatever he went rogue we were supposed to be rowdy and i'm being rowdy i don't think he meant to hit lennox i someone else.
Right. But we were on camera.
I knew we were on camera. Did those guys know that you were filming behind you? No.
No one knew. No one knew.
No one knew but us. But he slapped Luke Wilson.
At some point, one of the giant, I don't know if he was a Klitschko relative or not, just turned around, open hand, smacks Luke Wilson in the face. And he's no punk.
Luke Wilson's no... We all kind of snap into action for a minute

and then you just look at the size of the whole row in front.

I was like, we're going to get slaughtered.

We were in trouble.

Talk about getting beat up on your own show.

That would have been...

Did any of that make the...

There's video of it that did not make the cut,

but that's on film.

In that episode, you can see some of that happening?

Oh, yeah.

No, not really. No, I mean, I don't think you feel the tension, but you could probably ID those dudes.
Yeah, right? Yeah. And then we...
Good idea. That was a good one.
Would you say we were like a competitive group, the three of us, I should say, within each other? Of course. Right.
The three of us, you just leave out Adrian. Adrian's not a competitive guy.
In any sport, if we're playing basketball, if we're throwing snowballs at each other, it's anything. Pitball.
I talk about this with Matt, and Matt's been in some movies. He's been on sets.
We're going to get you later with something. But I think, you know, actors don't always get reputations of being, like, tough or whatever.
You two have, and I say this to my dying day, I would put what you guys did up with any NFL injury, anything, because you saved a photo shoot that was not going to happen. We finally got, this is like season four, we got excited because we got the Entertainment Weekly cover, which is a big deal at the time.
I don't even think it was that, bro. I think it was our first cover.
I think it was like bigger than that it was like vanity fair or vanity fair yeah i thought it was entertainment no it was like the inside we were the cover story inside part and you know you find out weeks in advance and then i know you guys have maybe told it the night before the night before maybe it was two days before the night before we're shooting a scene where and it was like a nothing scene connelly's character pulls up we're just shooting around in like the driveway and adrian and dylan in character just like shooting around playing a little one-on-one almost but not like half speed right and then what is what layup basically you were trying to like make some moves like you try to do like shake and like you know and adrian was trying to play a little too much defense at that stage he's not going's dangling everywhere. He's not going to be playing any offense.
Anyway, I landed on his foot. My arm, my hand landed in between the pavers.
Yeah, you were going down. They put the basketball hoop in a terrible spot because it looked good for the shot.
It was uneven. My hand landed in between the pavers.
I had a compound fracture in my arm. That was gnarly.
It popped out. I remember Dylan falls with his arm down and he just starts going, broken arm, broken arm, broken arm.
And we're like, okay, dude. And then where we shot, there was a fountain.
And his instinct was he put his arm in the fountain. He was looking for something cold.
Anything cold. And then we looked at it.
Let's get the medic up here. I was like, get me a van immediately.
It was a gut-wing. We called Doug.
Then you called Doug Allen. You're like, show's over, bro.
Connelly turned green. We stopped the episode.
Oh, we shut down. The next day is what? The photo shoot for the big thing.
The next morning is the photo shoot. So I had a, yeah, I went to Cedars-Sinai and they operated on me.
They put a plate in there and a bunch of screws. We all think, all right, we're clearly not doing the photo shoot.
We're concerned about him. So it's like, all right, maybe we'll get the photo shoot down there.
And then like Rocky Balboa, it's like, no bro, I'll be at that photo shoot next morning. It was our first cover.
We got to make it. You got hurt on Friday, you got the surgery on Saturday and you were at the photo shoot on Sunday in Pasadena.
And if you look, they put, no, it was the next day. I think it was the next day.
It was the next day. It was Saturday.
Splitting hairs. We'll show these photos.
Yeah, no, it was the very next day. You broke his surgery and photo shoot the same day.
We'll just tell that fucking story. We'll show the photos, though.
It sounds even better. But you know what? I'll tell you what.
If you see the cover, I look so bloated because I was on an IV all the time. So I look really puffy.
And we hid your hand in every photo.

Yes, I had to hide my arm behind some of the other guys.

And is there still metal in your arm from that?

Oh, yeah.

I still got a plate and I got screws.

His is gnarly, bro.

And so that to me is Iron Man.

So I'm sticking up for our actors.

And then Connelly, speaking about our-

I'll tell you the time I had the hardest hit I ever got hit in the NFL after this.

Well, Connelly and I are competitive, I think in a healthy way, right? We talk shit to each other. He breaks my balls, 20 and 10.
We'll get to that. Don't worry.
Jerry's a high school basketball stat line. These celebrity all-star games he played.
Average 20 and 10 in high school. I did not average 20 and 10 in high school.
If you had 20 and 10, you would have went to Duke. What are you talking about? Now starting for the New Blue Devils, 5'6", Jerry Ferrar.
Was it 12 and 10, 10? You were double-double average. I said for four games, I went on a run.
He actually pulled out an article, too. He did pull out a blurb.
He did pull out a news blurb. I'll be at somewhere.
I'll hear from across an event. 20 and 10! I'm like, oh, fuck, Connelly's here.
That's fantastic. I just think it's an egregious stat to roll off your tongue.
You did have a great, that Super Bowl flag football game. Jerry was unstoppable.
He was unbelievable. I'm sure you heard about that.
You're a very unassuming good athlete. Well, this is why we got to get Matt back.
But he was very ungracious in his MVP. Have you seen this footage? No.

I took on the heel character.

The late, great Tony Saragusa was doing the sideline.

Was this the beach?

This is the DirecTV beach ball.

But it looks good on TV.

It looks organized on TV.

It looks like a real...

I caught a TD and a two-point conversion,

and Saragusa grabs me.

He's like, Jerry, grab me.

And he grabs me, by the way.

It hurt.

He's such a big guy.

And he's like, Jerry, your team's down, but you're playing really well. What would you say to the rest of your team? I just went, play like me.
Can you believe this? Connelly's appalled. He's appalled.
I said congratulations, and I can't believe that you would be such a sore winner. You were pissed.
Wildly unlikable, Jerry. Wildly unlikable.
Well, speaking. Yeah, play like me, he says.
And then you had a couple. Didn't you do like a weird spice? I did a sand angel.
Yes, that's right. You scored a touchdown and did a sand angel on the desk.
All right, now you tell me what you think of this though. So when we're shooting a movie, right? And we had, for whatever reason, we had a lot of NFL players.
Everyone, Matt, you should have been there, by the way. No doubt.
We had Russell Wilson, Clay Matthews, Gronk, Edelman. You remember this, Dylan? Yeah.
All these guys. There was like 200 cameos.
And was on the beach and they're like, you know what's a great idea? Russ, why don't you throw Connelly and Jerry some routes? Alright, so we immediately get fucking competitive. Jerry does a hitch route.
No, no, no. Russ tells me to run an out route, I think, right? Okay.
I run a little five yard out and Connelly fucking drops a shoulder and lays me out on the beach. I wrap my arms up.
I'm like, Jerry, I love you. I had no choice.
I had no choice. The camera was rolling.
So now it's starting to get competitive. Now Connelly, we switch.
Connelly's on offense. I forget whatever route you drew.
Russ airmailed me. Well, Russ threw a high one, but you catch it, right? No, no, no.
He didn't want me to go out Like cause there's the cliff Oh that was the cliff I want to go deep and out Into the corner He's like no no no Cut in I was like no He's like We run on the plane He airmails it Threw the ball off the ledge Right but that's not when You got the injury No then I said alright I'll go in Then they Yeah so And I came in and Jerry Lined me up and broke the line Well I lined. I wrapped him up.
I have him. And then this motherfucker starts extending for the end zone.
I was trying to break the plane. I was going to let go, but now he's trying to break the plane.
So I grabbed tight and then he like dies for it. And I slid down his body.
And we just heard like. It was like chopsticks.
Do you remember what I said to you the first words? What was that? I said, what was that? He's like, that's my leg. My leg.
Oh, my God. And by the way, first of all, there was a four-day thing, and this is like 1030 in the morning on day one.
I'm like, dude, I knew I was like, I mean, I f***ed up. Are we allowed to curse? Yeah.
I knew I f***ed that one up. Right, but do you remember the first attendant on the scene who came up and diagnosed you? Edelman? It was Edelman and Gronk.
Edelman and Gronk. Edelman goes, you're fine, bro.
It's a high ankle sprain. I was like, I don't think so.
Do you remember what I said? I said, that's broken. Dylan was the only one who thought it was broke.
Yeah, I said, that's broken. Connelly works a whole day.
It had a little bend in it. He works a whole day with a high ankle sprain.
Gronk's telling him, just tie your shoes tight. At the end of the day.
Don't take your shoes off. Keep them on.
At the end of the day, I just remember looking at Kevin. He's like, guys, I fucking, I really think I need to go to the hospital.
We're like, all right, let's, we finished the day. Let's get him to the hospital.
He goes, how many breaks did you have? No, when I did, no, we did the third, on the end of the third day, I was like, I can't. I had like tears streaming down my face, but I had sunglasses on.
Do you remember what we did? You, we had to hit a mark and he couldn't barely walk. So I barely walk in the scene.
You can see this in the scene. I basically go, I put my arm around like it's casual.
No, no, no. You grabbed me by my belt.
I thought I got underneath you. No, no.
I grabbed you by the belt and I carry him to his mark. I just had to hit a mark like five or six feet away.
And it looks natural. You can see it in the movie though.
Can you see it? If you know it. Oh, this is the movie.
Yeah, he grabbed me by the back of my belt. So I was like, we're going to hit that mark no matter what.
It looked like I was just like gliding across. I get my wedgie and put him on his mark.
That was bad. By the way, just actors are tough, man.
I just changed all my. Do you have a different impression now of us? Not at all.
Oh, these three are. They're not all tough.
You know, in the movie, remember when there's the shot where we're driving the Lincoln through the soundstage? Yes. In the back lot.
That was only because that was us walking. And then when I broke my leg, they're like, let's just put him in the link.
And it ended up on the poster of the movie. Oh, we're going to drive you around.
Yeah. So your leg break got us.
No, I'm just saying. What's your hardest hit? So the worst week of my life.
So I'm playing, it's 2007. We're playing Pittsburgh at home.
And I basically, this is James Harrison, Paul Amalu era. Paul intimidating.
Yeah. And so I go bootleg, roll out, and James Harrison just comes free.
And James Harrison's about 5'10", 250 pounds. Squats like a million pounds.
He's just mean. And I'm just like, and I immediately, my thought to get out, I see him.
And my thought is just to kind of jump and just throw a jump ball over him to the flat and just like take the hit. That's just what happened in real time.
That happens. He picks me up like by my waist and just pile drives me straight down.
That sounds horrible. That was back when you were allowed to do that.
Yeah. No, he literally pile drives me.
And so like I took a lot of guys take a lot of pride. Like if you get hit to get, just get back up.
Get back up. Don't show them anything.
I did it. Like, well, I did it when I broke my collarbone.
I got back up, and I could feel it. I was just like, oh, fuck.
And I just, like, in my mind, I was like, it's not over. It's not over.
And then I'm like, I called timeout. I was like, it's over.
This was in Houston. So I'm on the ground, and I'm like this.
And I'm like, oh, fuck, I can't move. I couldn't move my back.
I wasn't. I could move everything.
I I was just like so it was the only time in my career where I was out I was down like the trainers came out and they're like you alright I said yeah I think whatever so I sat out of play I finished the game you finished the game Jesus got a little tore it all shot finished the game what kind of show you can't do that anymore what does it do it just buys you it's basically hours? It's basically instant like cortisone. It just in, boom, you have three hours, you feel like Superman.
But after that three hours is up, then the come down must be horrible. I basically had a back contusion.
My whole lower back, my right butt cheek, all the way down to my hamstring was the color of my pants couldn't it was black and purple oh my god so i got all this treatment for three days four days i missed practice i couldn't move i played the next sunday so sunday to sunday broke my collarbone that next week against the rams and that was that's and that's we had kurt warner we had kurt warner on oh right yeah And that was like when he took over and then he ended up taking the job.

But it was the worst seven days.

It was fucked.

Wow.

James Harrison.

We are tough, but that sounds like one of the worst.

No, well, dude, but James Harrison is like Ray Lewis.

Back contusion.

Yeah.

It's like getting hit by a...

But when you're getting tackled and you just feel your bone crack,

you're like, oh, shit.

And it doesn't hurt right away. No, no, you got adrenaline.
All of a sudden, it's like, oh shit. And it doesn't hurt right away.
All of a sudden it's like, oh god. Afterward.
The one time I was doing this movie in Puerto Rico and I got the flu and it was the only time I could not answer the bell, man. I didn't have any dialogue.
They're like, all you have to do is stand there. I said, I know.
I know what I got. I can't.
I just can't do it. I can't stand up.
I tried, bro. tried bro i tried it was awful you know it's another crazy thing was when i broke when i broke my wrist i got the guy in the van taking me to cedar sinai he's looking at my arm so it's my right arm i by the way i broke them both that's why you but i'm holding up my it had an s shape in the arm and he's looking at it the whole time He wants to throw up.
He gets to Cedar Sinai, pulls up the ramp, runs around to get the door for me, forgets to put it in drive and park, leaves it in drive, and the thing starts rolling down the hill. Like a big giant van.
So now I had to reach over and stop the brake. Someone's trying to kill Dylan today.
Dylan's like straddled over the thing, trying to put it in car. I had to put the brake on.
That was wild. Crazy.
I was asking Jerry this. When you guys, like going back to the beginning, when you're auditioning for this show, and obviously iconic show, and the chemistry you guys had, what was it like when you first auditioned and you're all getting to know each other? Because I asked Jerry, were you and Connelly boys? You guys obviously have a competitive relationship.
were what were those relationships like early on was it like synergy right away yeah right i mean we had a lot in common all of us yeah we're all new york and we didn't know each other everyone automatically assumes oh you guys must have known each other a little bit right and i had never met i was i really hadn't worked all that much at that point i'd done like little things here and there but obviously obviously I'm like, I know Dylan from Platoon and The Doors and Connelly. I was watching his sitcom when I was a kid, so I know these guys, right? I know of them, but I always say it's the thing that you, and I think it's similar with sports.
We're talking to Flaherty about it too. It's like you can't cast chemistry.
It either kind of happens or it doesn't. Now, sometimes you can not have chemistry in a movie or show.
It could still be good. But it helps to have the chemistry.
And I do think that we just had it early on. I can't point to why other than maybe it's because we're all from New York.
Well, I remember when we first met, was that the audition? You were sitting out there. You had a Giants jersey on.
I did have a Giants jersey. How many jerseys did they change? It might have been LT.
Was it LT? I think it was Seahorn. I want to say it was Seahorn.
This goes back to my take. As a Giants fan, I'm like, hey, what's up? You're from New York.
Me too. I'm like, hey, you got another smoke? He was smoking.
So you're a Giants fan? Yeah, I'm a big Giants fan. I must have mooched like five cigarettes off you.
I'm like, sorry about that. Then I see him at another audition.
Once again, I got no smokes. I think I got a different jersey on.
You got another smoke, bro? We were bettas. This wasn't the entourage audition.
This was like so. Oh, this was entourage.
Early on. Yeah.
I guess we did about six. There's a lot of.
There's maybe four auditions and then the screen test. It all heads to like the final day where it's like cut day.
It's the test, right? Where the HBO is there, all the producers. and then the screen test.
It all heads to the final day where it's like cut day. It's the test, right? Where the HBO is there, all the producers.
And then you're in the waiting room and you have like, there's like three actors for Turtle. I could see the other Turtles.
You could see the other E's. There was no other dramas.
They have to bring the options. I didn't know there was no other drama.
I tried no other drama. I tried to tell you.
I think there were a couple guys that have told the dramas. Was there ever like, so you're auditioning for Turtle with other guys.
Yeah. Some of the other guys, did they ever become like big time actors? Yes.
Yeah. Like missed out.
You always hear that like, oh, they could have had that role, but they missed out. It's not missing out.
It's like you're either the guy or not the guy. Who were they? Well, I know what you, an actor named Dash Mehawk, who was on Ray Donovan for a year.
He's been in a million thing. He never stopped works.
Works more than anybody, yeah. But I know, I almost didn't get it because everyone's concern was always like me and Dylan.
There's not that big of an age gap, but these guys were supposed to be in high school together. And I get it.
That's why they made me. That's why Turtle always had a beard.
I couldn't even grow a beard back then. And they put me in these baggy jerseys because they were trying to make me look older.

And basically they told me,

if you're not going to get it,

it's because you're too young.

You're 23 and you look like you're 12.

But for all the deep dives on the show,

nobody ever said a word.

No one ever mentioned,

there's no way Turtle and Johnny Drama went to high,

never was a thing.

Right, not one time.

No one ever mentioned it.

But yeah, the chemistry of that.

They also made it like I was let back a couple years later.

Probably were. You were in high school.
But I will will say too do you think what Wahlberg did helped we shot the pilot and then when we got picked up there's a big time gap in between shooting the pilot and when HBO makes the decision alright we're going to go with your show once we got word we're going to start shooting in like three weeks Wahlberg says alright I'm going to take you guys a private plane I've flown three times in my life let alone a PJ we're going to go to Vegas we're going to go to an HBO flight we're going to do some research and I remember rolling up to the Burbank airport like I got a tail number about meeting Mark Wahlberg they're like get the fuck out of here

do you remember what fight that was

it was Roy Jones

Tarver no wasn't it Corrales

wasn't it like something crazy or maybe it was like one of the

Corrales um Corrales

fight yeah it was an insane fight

but we go on a private plane

to Vegas the four of us with Mark and like

three of his boys and we just had

an amazing weekend right and

came back and it was very evident at that

moment like okay we got the we got the

Thank you. the Vegas, the four of us with Mark and like three of his boys.
And we just had an amazing weekend and came back and it was very evident at that moment. Like, okay, we got the, we got the chemistry.
We really do. It was fun.
I guess it's kind of like that in sports too, right? You can't, you don't know coming in like, Hey, me and Larry Fitzgerald are going to have this amazing, you just don't know. It either happens or it doesn't.
I actually have a theory as well. Like we were any competition for each other.
Right. No.
Kevin and Jeremy were a little bit more experienced and a little bit older. You just had your roles? Yeah, it wasn't like Adrian was in a band as well.
The Honey Brothers. There was never any real direct competition.
The tricky part was the screen test was knowing who's who. You were calling me E.
At times I was calling you E and I'm like, oh wait, he's E. Okay, I got to figure out who's who.
I did have a surreal Wahlberg moment at the test. You remember what they do is, it's almost like the Olympics.
You're going to do your individual read and then we're going to pair you up. I go in for my individual read and it was like, I thought it was okay.
I was just doing what I normally thought I was doing. I come back out to that awful waiting room where everyone's nervous and Wahlberg comes out.
I'd never met Wahlberg at this point. And he's like pointing at someone and he's like motioning.
I'm like, fuck, he's motioning for me. So I walk over and he puts his arm around me.
And he's like, listen, that was fine what you did in there. But like, you know that moment everyone talks about? Like, this is your moment? This is your fucking moment.
You're like kind of fucking it up. Like, I don't care.
He said to up like i don't care he said to me i don't care about the script i don't care just go do what you've been do be yourself stop being nervous this is already after this was i didn't get the part i made it to the final three it's like the final three we're dueling to the so he wanted you he was like i want this kid to i think in their mind like maybe I was the leader in the clubhouse. He saw you already.
He said, I've seen your tapes. I know it.
I don't know. He even said, be more New York.
Have more attitude. And it was the greatest cup of coffee in the world.
I remember walking back like, holy shit, I got to step it up. And then what gets real nerve-wracking, they send people home.
They're like, okay, you can go, Kevin. And in the very end, it was like, Kevin, Kevin, Jerry, and I think it was a different Adrian.
You four stay, come on in, and we read together, and you just walk home. And you still don't know.
And then you just wait for the call. You still don't know when you leave.
They couldn't get Adrian out of Mexico. Right, Adrian was like Vince, was hiding in Mexico.
He was hiding in Mexico. Adrian wasn't at the test.
Why was he hiding in Mexico? God only knows. I just don't even think that he, at that point...
He was like living on the... Yeah, he...
Playing guitar and like walking around Mexico. I don't think he cared much if he got it or not.
I didn't think he knew how much he was up for the role. But he put himself on tape and someone in the office cut my audition and his audition together.

I mean,

that's his biggest role.

I mean,

that's,

well,

yeah,

I mean,

it's a big chase.

I don't think he knew

even at the time.

Hindsight is 24.

Of course.

I do remember the president

of HBO at the time

was like,

you guys have no Vince,

so you have no show.

Show's not getting made.

We didn't have Vince at that.

We were locked in.

Vince was not cast

and then that editor

made that tape

of Connelly's audition.

He cut it with Adrian's audition tape and Chris Albrecht watched it and went, okay, you guys can go make the pilot. And that was it.
And remember the opening scene, the change of the scene? We shot the original opening of the pilot, which is like a three or four page scene. I heard it wasn't great.
It was us at... Tom Bergen's, wasn't it? Tom Bergen's.
Tom Bergen's. I had a couple nights in Tom Bergen's.
You've definitely had a couple of nights at Tom Bergen's. I mean, so we're doing this 04.
You're at USC. Were you guys like watching Entourage back then? Well, me and we ran into each other far too often.
I never ran into you. So part of us doing this, we were like talking.
I'm like, man, we were in LA at the same time the same time and i was like yeah i used to run into connelly all the time like we were like like boy like we saw each other boys like whatever knew a lot of the people in the same circle um we yeah entourage was number one for for all of us and it was like i i i got labeled like going into the nfl like labeled the hollywood guy that was like what they would say on ESPN and shit. The Hollywood quarterback.
I was telling Jerry this story. I'm in OTAs or summer Arizona rookie year, and there's this middle linebacker eight years in.
He was my boy, but he's like, this isn't a play, we're going whatever. Vinny Chase, Vinny Chase is in, boys.
Literally, I could not escape it escape it. And so he literally to this day, if I saw him right now, he'd be like, what's up, Vinny? I was just Vinny to him.
And then I never said this before. So I was at the NFL Combine.
And in the Combine, you basically do like speed dating at one point. You just go around with every coach, whoever wants to meet with to meet with you five minutes whatever and then there's about four or five teams who are interested in see where like hey we could draft him here they'll grill you for like a 20 like a room like this you're you're in front of eight gms all this stuff and they just grill you and mine was sean payton and he was with the saints because they were picking two and i was right yeah sean's awesome so great i'm in this and i had visited out there like it was a real thing i ended up taking reggie my teammate but it's a real thing for them to possibly draft me and the whole session was about entourage and holly are you serious swear to god he he referenced he's like he was referencing entourage and like that i were part of the combine this This is great.
No. And I was a part of it.
Like, cause. Right.
Cause I, cause I was just, I had this label. Like.
Like as a concern. Like.
A concern. Like, yeah.
Cause they're about to invest. Are you going to be a problem with your entourage? Exactly.
They're about to invest millions of dollars. Just like, hey, what's up? You know, we have this entourage thing like everyone.
That was the whole thing. Wow.
It was maybe five minutes of football and I could like talk football. Right.
So it was like, like who are these people why do you have so many people around you and it was just like you always ask friends stop hating on entourages bro no he always says like how he gets like the parallels of athletes having an entourage and how that's so strange like your show is really like honestly looking back like i live that with my entourage of my boys and i had good ones i had guys that you just kind of weed out as you get older you know because they take advantage or they weed themselves out or they weed themselves that's why the show is so great because it still stands the test of time like it's still like you said zion zion came up to you yeah after a nicks game one time i i'm getting ready to leave and i just like this giant clap on my shoulder and i look and zyler flinch flinched. I was like, holy shit, Zion Williamson, what's up? He's like, hey man, when I was injured last year, I binged Entourage.
I'd never seen it before and it got me through. And he literally looked at me and he went, I just wish I had like a turtle or a drama.
And I'm like, almost, not that I felt bad for him, almost like, man, I hope you got people, and I'm sure he does have good people around him, But he really looked at me and said, I just wish I had kind of like what we had on the show. We did more than just binge on Entourage.
He packed on a couple pounds. Well, but now he's in great shape.
Now he's in great shape. He's in really, really good shape.
I'm a sick athlete. I always wanted him.
I mean, it's different. But for how you guys are living in that time.
You're consuming your life. You're living it like off camera camera in real life i know we used to run each other in hollywood and stuff like how is there does it relate to any of you guys and you're off or you're just like this is work you go to you go to work every day you get home you go to your families or whatever was there like were you living that in reality too to some degree yeah kevin was i was not i was living in Malibu.
Yeah, you were just in church. I mean, you're like.
Had a small child at home, you know. This is ridiculous.
No, but I wasn't partying. I was in a nightclub like you.
No, no, no. You were.
I mean, a little bit. A little bit.
You were on a bar stool. You were on a bar stool.
I was just in a different, just a different format, Dylan. It's the same thing at the end of the day.
No, no, I listened to a certain extent. Yeah.
Like Like it just kind of, yeah, I mean, I guess it was what it was. I remember, do you remember the first time at the Playboy Mansion? You remember that? Jerry and I went to the Playboy Mansion.
It was, I mean, it was that kind of stuff, but it's just also a different time then too. People now are just, you know, you're gun shy, right? It's just like everything's on, you're always on camera.
I feel like Adrian spokerian spoke about this too i think for him i got a little blurry right at times like i'm playing this right larger than life movie star and then he's you know in a healthy way he's going out living his life having fun i think he has talked later saying like yeah it got real blurry right for me i was always afraid to like get fired or something because i always felt I was the most experienced on the show. I mean, you know, you said you've been, I mean, when did you start acting? I mean, I've been doing it for, you know, like Dylan was in two best picture movies.
Dylan was in two best picture movies. And the block with the greatest hair in the history of something.
So for me, I was always like. That's a good mullet.
I would go out here or there, but I just was always afraid, like, you're going to fuck this up. I would try to drag Jerry out once in a while you'd get him out once in a while I was a bad wingman I never saw you out one time I didn't go out a lot I was always in relationships later on I had my moment of like I'm just gonna enjoy this a little more I moved to West Hollywood we had a sleepover Jerry slept over Jerry let's call like it is.
Connelly and Adrian were partying a lot. Kevin would walk in.
He would show up in the morning with red eyes. He looked like he had been maced.
He's like, give me some of those blue drops. He would put these blue Visine drops in there.
Do you guys remember our first year at the Golden Globes? And I bring it up for a reason. Yes, when we busted each other's chops on the red carpet.
By the way, you really ran with that one. So, all right, I'm going Golden Globes for a minute because one, we didn't really expect to get nominated for a Golden Globe that first year.
It was shocking. And we go, and it was the first and only time, and it just timed out this way, our first day of shooting season two was the Monday morning after the Sunday party.
And all I really remember was we went to all the parties, had this great night. And I remember getting back to my apartment, putting my head on the pillow, and then my alarm clock went off.
We basically went right to work. And we went right, no sleep, right to work.
It was a rough hair and makeup trailer. And it was like, but it was just like a shot.
We just had to get in there. We were out by like 10, but we had to go in there.
It was just like, just pull it together. Just pull.
We just got to make it through this day. Just fucking rally and get through the next 12 minutes and you'll be in your car on the way home.
Now, I might have butchered this story. You have a good memory with this.
I tried to tell us in the bathroom the Golden Globe story. I might have had details incorrect.
I want to make sure I got it. I think is the funniest thing I've ever done.
You want to tell it, Kev, or you want to tell it? Just make sure I said it right. Do you remember it well? So, listen, the Golden Globes, the fun thing about the Golden Globes used to be that you were at a table.
You're not in the auditorium. You could have some drinks.
We've got to kind of start this off on what happened at the Red Carpet. We on the red carpet? Because we've been going off on each other the whole time.

Well, we called it. I declared war when you said that on CNN.

One of those luxury suites, you know, where they give you free stuff.

And there was a spray tan.

And he was like, come on, come in and get a free spray tan.

So I was like, all right, let me get a spray tan.

You got a spray tan?

I got a spray tan.

He got a, by the way.

The whole way on the carpet.

He had to tell everyone.

He busted my balls.

All you saw was a pair of white eyes. I was going to say, you probably could tell.
It was bad. I wish I hadn't done it.
Yeah. Bad choice.
So wait, was that the first shot in the war? That was the first shot. I didn't know I cut him that deep.
So I was like, all right, let's go. Here we go.
We're going like CNN. His chops about, oh my God, he shot up so long over you.
He said it on CNN. I was like, Dylan, you just started a war.
And he's like, all right, relax. Let's talk about, I'm willing to call a truce if you're willing.
And this is on the red carpet. It's on the red carpet.
He had to eventually call a truce. Yeah, Connelly came in last week looking like he'd been maced the night before.
I was like, Dylan, you're a dead man walking. And the next time we're on here, I'm going to carve you to shreds.
He's like, all right, all right, relax. I'm willing to walk away if you're willing to walk away.
We had to call a truce. Ceasefire.
Ceasefire. There was a ceasefire.
But the Golden Bath is the best. But it was still active at this stage, right? So he had just busted my chops about this spray tan.
And we're in the bathroom. I'm at the urinal.
Well, we're at the table, but we left separately. But we ended up in the bathroom together.
Who else is in the bathroom? Do you remember? It was Pierce Brosnan who I said what's up to. See, wasn't Cameron crazy? I knew from Malibu.
I used to run into him. It was the craziest line of dudes at the bathroom.
I think Cameron was in there. Who? I think James Cameron was in the bathroom.
He could have crazy people or like some massive Tony Scott or somebody. No, Johnny was not there.
All right. The place was packed.
And it's quiet. It's quiet.
It's the bathroom. It's very tense also.
It's like a commercial break. You know, I'm at the urinal.
I don't get the urinal for a half hour. Connelly comes walking in.
His prostate is the size of him. I'll let you finish the story.
Connelly comes walking in. What do I say? All right, cover up, gentlemen.
We got a peaker in here. Pierce Brosnan.
I mean, everyone. You can see everyone covering up, too.
The entire place. Don't look at Connelly.
The entire place went ballistic. I was just like, I threw my hands up.
Classic Peeker. Peter Gazer.
We got to tell the story. So we're out on the back patio.
And I remember Kevin Bacon was there. I remember Kevin Bacon.
It was me, Dylan. Kevin Bacon.
We're smoking a singer and having a drink. Shooting the shit.
This up to kevin and he's like uh hey how you doing man uh you know we went to high school together dylan's like hope i didn't beat you up too bad he's like and he did say no no no you're always very nice to me you're always very nice to me and dylan's like oh yeah what are you doing here it's like oh you know i you know i made directed him made a movie he's like really what as well. Nominated for Capote.
Dylan's like, you know, I always liked you, right, bro? This is true, too. I'm like sitting there.
I'm going, and Kevin Bacon goes, no, you heard it. I know you're asking if that really happened, and I'm here to confirm that he just said that.
It was unreal. It was Bennett.
I knew him well. He was a great guy.
Great guy. Great guy.
Yeah. Great guy.
I mean, he had grown a couple feet, so he looked completely different. A couple Oscar nominations.
A couple Oscar nominations. I still haven't gotten a call.
Dylan, we were just together shooting something, right? So fun. And we're going to talk reboot stuff, only because I had a realization after shooting this moment, and it's been on Instagram now, where you come over to me you take your glasses off you deliver your line I'm like fuck this guy still got his fastball man he's just throwing heat still but you said something in between takes we were talking about like when you were growing up and the Bennett Miller years we'll call them and you had mentioned too like once once your brother Matt kind of went off like dude there's a lot of hatred like hating on matt and dudes would show up yeah looking to like where's matt and then you'd have to like step out and roll with these yeah he was he was such a big teen idol yeah stage and you had a kind of girls had his poster and they all they all loved him you were in the marching band this time right a lot of guys hated him right from other schools they would come to our school looking to beat Matt up, which they probably wouldn't be able to do.
Matt's a pretty tough dude. Tough dude.
But then they'd come up. Then they'd come up.
Where's the next Dylan? So me and my brother Paul had to end up fighting these idiots who came looking at him. So they came after you, too? Yeah, they would come after us.
So he wasn't on the football team. He was in the marching band.
No, I was not. Yes, you were.
No, I did a little. I played the drums a little bit, but I actually never marched.
You were not in the marching band. I was not in the marching band.
But then you, that's not what I knew. No, I know my paradiddles.
I knew. Your paradiddles? Yeah, that's a drumming thing.
He doesn't speak the language. He doesn't understand music.
The language of music. And then how old were you when you left for Platoon? You were still like, you were like just out of high school.
I was probably 17 when I left. I was 18 when I was there.
Me and Charlie were the two youngest guys. You were 17, 18.
Charlie Sheen was like the same age. Same age, yeah.
Did you run around with Charlie back in the day? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
He's a good dude. Well, especially in the Philippines.
We had a great time. I bet.
Glad I missed it, we still see each other a lot. You're still alive.
You know, we're going to do another platoon reunion. Oh, really? That's awesome.
Texting with Charlie again. Oh, that's awesome.
Unfortunately, we lost one of our platoon brothers, Tony Todd. I don't know if you guys.
Sorry to hear that. Great actor.
Really great guy. It was kind of heartbreaking because I just saw him recently.
But, yeah, he was going to be coming to this great reunion, too. You know, we're really tight, this platoon group.
It's amazing. How often do you guys get together? We shot that in 86.
Would you rather hang out with them or me and Jerry? Probably every – oh, them. I love you guys, too, man.
But, yeah, so it'll be great. About every eight years maybe we get together, it seems.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Give or take.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just think about, I just don't know at such a young age

to go off to the Philippines and do a movie like that.

Well, my parents didn't want me to go because there was a revolution

in the Philippines.

They just ousted Marcos.

There were tanks in the streets, and they're like,

we don't want you to go.

But you know what?

I had just turned 18.

I was like, I'm 18.

I'll do whatever I want.

Do whatever I want.

I'm going.

But a lot of guys actually dropped out and regret it to this day.

Yes, they regret it.

Imagine doing that.

Say, no, I'm not going to do that.

Here's the other thing, too.

Platoon, for all intents and purposes, was an independent film.

Right.

This was no big studio film.

Those guys were out there.

I'm not going to do that. Here's the other thing, too.
Platoon, for all intents and purposes, was an independent film. Right.
This was no big studio film. It was not a big budget.
Those guys were out there. I think the total budget was like $5 million.
$6 million. Somewhere around there.
Now that would be... $6 million went a longer way back then.
In the Philippines, you can get a lot for your money. know you're sick what's your guy's favorite scene all-time entourage or like it could be like an improv or anything just oh man there's so many good ones there's so many good one of my favorites is the walk and talk or we we leave the restaurant they basically followed us from the restaurant out the door across across the street.
It was the Jess Mancini line. But it's the whole thing.
We had to keep finding the camera. I love the walk-in talks.
It's one of my favorite shots. One of my favorites was the hardest.
The line was great, too. The desert thing.
Oh, Joshua Tree. It's great to watch, but in hindsight, man, it was, look, I'm Irish.
We're not going for that heat It's hot out there bro Yeah Nowhere to go We shot the episode In Joshua Tree Where we take mushrooms And we're looking For these answers And we really went out To the desert And like Conley said It looks amazing And you're there But it was so hot Like the dog That played Arnold The dog that played Arnold Stormed off set They had to bring Like the dog Just started running off And the dog just came from. Never came back.
Poor Rutlier. Wilder's black.
He's like, I'm out. I am done for the day.
Thank you very much. I look back at the earlier episodes because we just didn't know.
We knew what we were doing. And I look back at, we were even talking like the boxing stuff.
I love when we shot at Laker games told our, the Kobe story. You remember the Kobe story? Did I ever tell it to you? Oh, that was amazing.
So, I don't know if it was, the first time we're shooting at Staples Center courtside, Kobe was hurt. I mentioned, we shot twice.
He was always hurt. He was out.
He was out for the year. His Achilles, right? He had a leg injury.
Yeah. The boot on..
So we get to Staples Center at like 4 p.m.

They barely want us there at this point.

They're giving us very minimal cameras or whatever,

but we have four amazing courtside seats.

So we're there rehearsing at 4 p.m.

Just to say, like, where are the cameras going to be here? It's here, here.

He's giving us a rundown.

Kobe comes out from the back and, like, just sweats,

and he's going to get some shots off.

He's on one leg.

Just him and us. He's shooting.
Now, of course, we all stop what we're doing. We're like Kobe Bryant.
And I'm sure he comes over. He's like, what are you guys doing? Season two.
We didn't really pop yet. And we were like, oh, Entourage is like, okay.
And it's ignored us. Just went back to shooting.
This is what a sick athlete he is. He's still practicing.
Yeah, I'm like one leg. One leg and he's still practicing.
He comes out to half court. We're wrapping up.
He's like, hey, 100 bucks a shot from half court with my left hand. One foot.
Off my good leg, left-handed. Done.
It's going to be great. We took it all.
First shot. Misses, but not by much.
He like another one spins right another one every one of them scared the best misses but it's like he's all over it he's dialed in yeah third fourth fifth shot whatever makes it never makes it and not only does he not make it just leaves doesn't say like that was fun doesn't give us any money so like either way and he either way. And he stuck us with the bill.
Stuff us with the money. But it's still a great story.
Now we're filming. Okay.
Kobe's not playing. So at some point in a timeout, an athletic trainer comes up to the five of us and peels off $100 bills.
In the middle of the game, this is from Kobe. And breaks us off $100 bills.
I had that tucked in. You had the $100 bill still? I had it tucked in.
Is it gone? Rainy day, emergency fun. Did he ever make...
He never made the show, did he? So he was supposed to. It's ironic.
Kobe was supposed to have a cameo, which he didn't do because I think he was in season. And then we ended up getting someone.
It's become one of the most iconic memes from the show. Kobe was supposed to do the 50 Cent cameo.
My character I'm having like this crisis of oh I'm not doing anything with my life Vince buys me a Ferrari Jamie Lynn buys me a Porsche I'm driving around the Ferrari and Beverly 50 cent rolls up to me and is like you look good and it's a famous meme because he smiles and just drives off it's on the internet every day but that was initially written for Kobe but I think he he was in season and he was like i in c i have the script still where it says kobe bryant pulls up the turtle that's cool uh but kobe in season you're just not getting to him like that and um and it worked out because the 50 meme is one of my favorite i also remember you know we have um the director of this episode this was julian. I remember this.
And he's English, right?

And he's a fanatical soccer, football fan.

Yes, fanatical.

But doesn't know anything about him.

And he's like, hey, y'all, mates,

we're just not looking at him.

He's telling us all this stuff,

but we're just all looking through him.

And I'm like, buddy, this is like,

that I'm trying to come up with something.

Michael Jordan.

He had no clue who Kobe was. This is like Beckham, whoever it was at the time, I was like trying to come up with an analogy player.
Get the fuck out of the way. I was like, dude, this is a big one.
Yeah, he was trying to get us refocused. He didn't really understand who it was.
We're not shooting until Kobe's done with whatever he's doing. Did you guys know it would be a hit at any point? Like, I know you early on.
I did. Dylan was the only one.
Like, you knew at a moment, you're like, shit, like, this is going to be... Yeah, I said, everyone's worried, you know, you shoot the pilot and then you hope it gets picked up.
Right, right. Then it did get picked up.
I knew it was going to get picked up because I thought the pilot was great. I told these guys, relax, it's getting picked up.
Then you hope that it's going to get picked up for another season. Multiple seasons, yeah.
Again, I'm. It's like, okay, it looks good.
You're on a one-year contract every year. I was going to say, every season it's just like...
We have deals. And I knew it was going to keep going because it was just a brilliant show.
It was a great idea. The chemistry was there.
There came a point where we knew we were going to run the course. But it is like, think of it like an athlete, like a football contract.
None of it's, we have five year deals,

none of it's guaranteed.

At any point they could say,

no, we're gonna go

a different direction

and it's over.

They don't pay us out

for the five years

or whatever our deal is.

And you guys are still working,

like you're doing a,

you're still doing movies,

other stuff.

In between,

but I mean,

you know,

it does take a lot of time

to make the show

and then, you know, you break and you take a little downtime. And, you know, getting a movie, like sometimes you get offers, sometimes you got to chase it for a while.
Right, but like there's a window. There's a window.
You have a very specific window when you can go do other stuff. And, you know, you can't just go off and be like, I'm going to go do this movie for six months.
It's like, well, because you're're gonna start shooting Entourage again. You kind of want to take the time off too.

Right, right.

It's a bit of a grind, you know,

when you do it.

Those days are TV show.

I mean, I've dabbled,

but it's like 14 hour days.

Oh, you definitely dabbled.

The later we got on,

the days would get shorter,

but in the beginning,

it was...

There's so much downtime too, though.

It's like you just...

That's like where you go crazy.

That's where you have to keep...

That's the hard part.

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We're going to do something in a few minutes. We do a throwback three on the show.
This is kind of a list. It's no pressure.
I like this. And again, throw out what you got.
We're going to do our throwback three of our favorite athlete cameos, specific athletes. And by the way, Matt, I'm thinking about it now.
It's probably because you were a college kid. You would have been a perfect cameo, right? But you couldn't do it because you can't.
I was going to say I wasn't allowed to do it. You're not allowed to do it because there was no nil my first my did i tell you the judging amy thing you're on judging amy first ever acting extra was on judging amy oh you're just an extra i was an extra because she was the director was a usc alum or whatever i think it was right after i graduated so i was allowed to do it i think i might have got paid 100 bucks or whatever but i was like this is and i had to pantomime and shit i was like what the fuck is pantomime you were a mime yeah i felt so uncomfortable i was like talking like this like i was talking in the background you're in the background i got you i got i think that's what they call is that pantomime yeah yeah so really like a fish out of water i was like what in in thinking once seeing that dylan still has his johnny drama fastball and cracking me up on set i'm like all right i know everyone always talks about reboot it's reboot.
It's been 20 years. And then I tried to think of just some fun.
All right. If we ever were going to do a reboot, what on earth are these characters doing today? Right? Yeah.
I'm going to pitch you a couple of things. By the way, I thought about this for five minutes and Doug, if you're watching, I'm not trying to write any, I know you're going to probably say leave it to the writers.
You're right. Leave it to the writers.
Agreed. But we're just going to have some fun.
Dylan, I'm going to start with you. When last we left Johnny Drama, he wins a Golden Globe Award, right? Yes.
And we love Johnny Drama, but we also love him when he's fighting, right? When he's like- Yeah, I like a struggling drama. Underdog Johnny Drama.
Yeah, I don't want to see him on top of the world. I think somehow he's struggling to get a job again.
He's down and out a little bit. Do you think maybe Johnny Drama is on a show again? Maybe he's on the net floor, whatever.
He's on a show. A lot of network, a lot of streamers.
And they are going to, for the first time, say, you know what, we actually think we could do his part with AI. Wow.
We're going to replace him. Johnny Drama faces an AI crisis.
I love it. You're in an AI crisis.
AI crisis. Johnny Drum is fighting the first AI.
We're going to replace him. Johnny Drama face an AI crisis.
I love it. You're in an AI crisis.
AI crisis. Johnny Drama is fighting the first AI acting crisis.
I think it would be great for you guys. By the way, I'd have to go to my SAG rep and go, what the hell is going on here? Bill loves his SAG rep.
We could write that scene in two seconds. That's a great idea.
That's a great idea. Great idea.
Not bad. I feel like for Turtle, when last we left, you were loaded.
A hundred million or more. Yes.
We haven't put an actual. I got worth.
Say he was worth a hundred million. My pitch would be, cause I also love Turtle when he's down.
He for sure got finagled in a crypto scheme. Yeah.
You're a big fan. Some NFT.
No, not Bitcoin. Cause Bitcoin would have worked out.
NFT. He bought an NFT crush.
He bought an NFT. Turtle is a board ape.
You thought I bought a board ape. Board ape.
He bought a board ape for $18 million, and now he's just flat. That's worth $400.
I love it. Lost it all.
Back living with Vince, for sure. We're all desperados again.
Exactly. E has gone through a divorce with Sloan.
She's kicked him out of the house. The only thing I figured for E is I feel like you and Sloan, you have a baby in the movie.

So I think you have five more kids.

A lot of kids.

Irish twins, a whole bunch.

You have five kids.

Running unscripted at Bravo.

So like did E create Love is Blind or something?

Created Love is Blind.

You're a reality guy now.

Just like, no, no.

Unscripted.

Unscripted.

Big difference. Running the unscripted department.
So what about Vince? This to me is the hardest one, right? Because he's still got to do well. The Vince character.
Or we got nowhere to go. It was always the engine of like, all right, here's the business story that we're going to then do something.
Me and Dylan will go do side quests, I used to call him. Yeah, B storyline.
I don't know because like, and I'm open to pitches. Movies, not many people are going to the movies anymore.
Do they bring him back for Aquaman 3? He is a Netflix darling. He's a Netflix darling.
He's on Netflix? You can find him trending in the top 10 once every time. Maybe he's moved back to Mexico.
Floating around the eight or nine spot.

Maybe he's back in Mexico. He's moved back to Mexico.

No, he's a Netflix darling, bro.

Do they try to lure him or Netflix?

They offer Johnny Drama a part, but he's got to have his brother in there.

So we got to go to Mexico to get Vince back.

Vince is on a multi-picture Netflix.

Is there a world where you guys could, like a reboot,

or you could redo this whole thing?

I mean, so much time has passed.

So reboots to me are always like- You guys get together and like, dude, let's try to pitch something. I really would all do it.
It doesn't work that way. We would all do it.
It's not that easy, right? As a matter of fact, everyone will do it. It's just the money behind it.
It's writers in HBO. Yeah, there's a lot.
It's an existing property, and it's existing IP. You don't just get to decide, hey, it's writers it's an important part HBO and yeah there's a lot it's an existing property and it's existing IP you don't just get to decide hey let's run it back there's a lot of people who want to have to decide to do it as well behind the scenes sure they cast the loss but like hey let's keep it going again let's do another season whatever I mean like I never say anytime I always say like I actually didn't think the movie was going to happen anytime I ever say never it actually it actually didn't happen.
The movie you have more control, right? Or no? Yes and no. And I always thought, like, the movie always felt like a big episode, right? For, like, the fans.
So I think going back and doing it as a series again would be the move. Yes, definitely.
I mean, it would be a great call to get, but I just don't see it. We you think we need to have like, because you say reboot, obviously you got to, like Cobra Kai did a good job.
They can reboot it without us as well. Right.
Cobra Kai did a good job of like, it's Daniel LaRusso's kids, but Daniel LaRusso's still on, they're still in it. They're just now the, Ryan Murphy.
So do we have like one of E's nine kids? That's a good pitch. You know, maybe we have to bring, or a Chase cousin you didn't know you had is now, I want to be an actor too, Uncle Johnny.
I don't know. You got to crack that.
Well, that's the other thing too. It would be, and one thing I think everybody is on the same page is that you wouldn't just, you know, you want it to be good.
You have to be because your initial thought would be like an eye roller. So you'd have to like blow that out of the water and have it be awesome, which would require, you know, something extreme, I guess.
But you guys still got it. You still got it.
Listen, I thought, but even me, when we were shooting that spot for Cash App, I'm like, I haven't done this with this character in a minute. Like I've changed felt great, didn't it, Jay? I didn't have kids back then.
How did it feel, Jay? Not that I was nervous. We do the rehearsal.
Once we figured out, all right, Dylan's going to come here. You're going to go.
This is what we're, after the first take, and especially with him, because we did so many side quest storylines together. I'm like, oh, we could.
You know, I never really thought about that actual part of it. What? character part like yeah all righty yeah i don't know man it's not just show up and do of course you could do it but i mean yeah it would be weird you gotta do a lot to go back i gotta call re stuff going again oh that's what i was gonna say one of the things i meant to do you remember still fits do you remember when um you know every year we would like we'd be shooting it we were a summer show every year.
Yeah. So we had to be ready to go in the summer, but we'd be shooting in like March or April.
Do you remember when they would bring in the new phones? Oh, yeah. And they'd have like, you know, all of a sudden it's like a skinny version of the, like, any time there was a new phone.
The next Delta. The Razor.
They were coming. The guy would basically like stand there.
Everyone wanted that Razor. And then after the take, he'd be like, all right, hand it over.
Come on, let's have somebody look at it. Yeah, they would bring on.
Of course, Piven destroyed all his props. He used to throw.
It was unscripted, and he would smash his phone against the wall. We would throw him off the cliff.
It was the only one we had. He probably went through a lot.
Remember when Piven pulled the hamstring in the desert? Oh, came up lame. He Came flying around the corner.
You get upset with me that I pulled my quad playing football. We're shooting in the desert.
We're out in the middle of nowhere. Freezing cold at night, 112 during the day.
And Piven, Ari has to come running around the corner. He's on mushrooms.
He's with the dog. And you see it.
He just reached for the hamstring right away. Came around that corner.
He pulled up lame. And he's just like, what am I going to do now? But he stayed in character? He tried.
Oh, no, not that take. He was hurt.
Cut. Dude, a hammy hurts, man.
Yeah, by the way, he pulled a hammy. I guess you could say one thing about the entourage, guys.
We are injury pros. We played through.
We played. We're tough.
We played through. Did you ever get hurt? No, I got sick a lot.
That was my thing. Jerry was always sick.
We battled a lot of illnesses. You had a flu when we were in that pool scene.
You look at Jerry. You were really in bad shape.
When we shot the pilot episode, we have to get in this indoor-outdoor pool in the mansion, which they didn't think to heat days before. It was November in LA in LA so it's not freezing but we're shooting at midnight.
The pool's freezing. I have either a stomach virus or the flu.
I'm green. I'm throwing up in between takes.
And you had to make out with this girl. This poor girl that you had to make out with.
I'm literally just going, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I'm shivering like this. In between takes, they're wrapping me with towels.
They're giving me like IV.

I just keep going to the girl.

He was wrapped in a heated blanket

between takes.

I think her name was Courtney.

I'm like,

I'm so sorry.

I hope you don't get sick.

And I was sick a lot,

but we battled through.

I mean, listen,

the other thing too is like,

you know,

the eight seasons is over 10 years.

I mean,

at a certain point,

we saw like a lot of each other.

You know,

at a certain point,

everybody was sick

and at a certain point,

everybody was hurt.

At a certain point,

everybody was going through a breakup at a certain point. Everybody was going through like, I got to watch these guys live lifetimes.
I went, I went through a few on this show. Let me tell you, first thing I'm like, just come on and sleep over, Jerry.
Let's go out. I was man down for a bit.
Connelly definitely helped rebuild my confidence. my confidence and um all i want to say is if you go with it this is the guy you want out there this is the guy you go to if you get a little heartbreak he so you're dealing with real heartbreak you're coming kind of did like come up to the house hang with me for a little bit we're not gonna do nothing the first night second night we're gonna watch a'll watch a movie, order a pizza.
Second night. We'll go get dinner.
We'll have a drink. You don't want to call a hammy.
But by the third night, we're going out. And you're just going to do what I say.
We're pitching that reality show. Man camp.
Man camp. Yeah.
And it worked. What a great fucking wingman.
That's cool. That's cool.
And yeah, the next dude that the girl date, Connelly, will put spells on him

if you want.

He'll do all that.

I mean,

yeah,

you wonder what,

yeah.

Yeah.

We can't tell him much.

He was going to tell you

a couple of good

off-air stories about that.

All right.

I'm not sure I want

this guy being a world champion

if I'm being honest.

Jerry.

Oh.

Jerry, yeah.

It's a girl

and a dude started dating

one of Jerry's exes.

He was like, I don't need this guy winning the ring right now. Is that bad that I didn't want the next person after me to win a ring? Is that terrible? I got no rings.
You got no rings. Not right now.
It's way too soon for a ring. It was right after too.
Yes. All right.
So we're going to do our throwback three. We're going to talk our favorite athlete cameos because for whatever reason, you professional athletes loved Entourage.
So good. And we had a lot over the years.
And again, there's no wrong answers. Just throw out one.
So throwback three, we're going to do our favorite Entourage athlete cameos. Okay, Dylan, you want to lead us off? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, let's hear it. I got three.
Let's hear it. Of course, I got to say Tom Brady because Tom was awesome.
Really going out on a limb there. I mean, he's number one.
Yes. Everyone loved him.
He signed whatever you want, took a picture. He was great with the crew.
The crew loved him. Yeah.
And of course, I break his club and the scene and all that. But during our lunch break, I had already hit like 200 golf balls on the range doing the shot.
But he was like, hey, Dylan, you want to go hit some golf balls? I'm like, yeah. Can't say no to that.
Can't say no to Tom Brady. Didn't get the call.
Didn't get the call. We played about 12 holes.
You know, he had a great swing. He was hitting it good.
He was hitting the ball really well. He was coming off the torn knee, too.
So no one had seen him. He hadn't played football in a year.
Great dude. Great dude.
So I'm going to say number one there. Number two, I'm going to go with Phil Mickelson, who I actually got that cameo.
I ran into him on a golf course in San Diego. I was with him.
The Bridges. I was with him.
I watched this happen. Yeah, that's right.
You were there. I watched this happen in front of my eyes.
So I was going out. For some reason, I was going out towards my car, and I saw Phil carrying his own bag, and he saw me kind of spot him, and he put his head down low like, I don't want to be recognized.
He didn't know he were? Not right away. So he was just like, oh, I don't want to be recognized by this guy.
This guy noticed me. He's like, this guy's a real creep.
But then I was like, I can't let him see it. Keep my head down.
I was like, no, no, hey, Phil. Phil, I just got to say what's up.
Then he recognizes. He goes, oh, my God, Johnny Drama.
So he was a fan of the show. I was like, yeah.
I go, you know my dad. My dad painted you.
My dad's a poor. Oh, that's a good story.
Yeah. My dad.
But my dad had painted him. He goes, oh, I love Paul.
He was the best. Like high end.
And he told me a story about my dad that I had never heard before, how he painted Phil with a right-handed club.

As a right-handed. They just grabbed a club and they took a picture together

and my dad painted that.

Oh, he painted that right-handed.

And then when my dad saw the picture, he goes,

oh, my God, Phil, I painted you with a right-handed club.

I'll fix it.

I'll just paint a left-handed club.

And he goes, no, no, Paul, I like it just like that.

It's a good conversation.

Don't change it.

That's awesome.

So he was great.

Then me and Jerry ended up having lunch with him. I asked him if he would want to do the show.
No, you didn't get the call. You were a hack.
I said, spend some time at the driving range, and we'll see if we can fit you in next time. So he said, yeah, I would love to do a cameo.
We called Doug Allen right there on the spot. He said, hey, Doug, say hi to Phil Mickelson.
That's it. And then Doug figured out a way to get him on the show, which was a brilliant way.
There's a tiny piece that we're leaving out. We had a line on the show the year before where we kind of throw him under the bus.
Ari has a line where he goes, the guy's melting down like Phil Mickelson at Wingfoot. By the way, that was the next episode.
It hadn't aired yet. Oh, it hadn't aired yet.
He just said, yes, I'll do the show. And then we crush it.
That aired that week. Yeah.
But he still did it. Well, he said, he said, you know, I'm just laying in bed with my wife watching my favorite show on a Sunday and all of a sudden just got hit with a right hand.
He's like, I'm about to do the show. These guys are great.
That's a good one, Dylan. Thank God he's got a great sense of humor.
And he was awesome in the show. He was awesome in the show.
And then I would say, number three, I'm going to go with Drew Brees. Drew Brees.
I actually, I never came in on my days off for cameos. Right.
But I was on my way out, and I went into the makeup trailer to take my makeup off, and I run into Drew Brees. Couldn't be a nicer guy.
The coolest, nicest guy. I don't remember him on.
He did something with one of you. So my character, when I was trying to raise money for tequila, I'm calling all these athletes.
I don't know how Turtle always knew all these athletes, but I call Drew, and we did his side of the call. But we did it all.
He was in the other room when we did it. And he was just really cool.
He was cool, dude. Met him in the trailer.

He had just won the Super Bowl.

New Orleans just got hit by that horrible hurricane.

So it was just like, what a great guy.

So he was number three for me.

That's Matt's most accurate quarterback.

We do this thing, build your perfect quarterback.

And it's like arm strength, accuracy.

He's great, man.

Whose arm strength would you go with?

What'd you do? You did? Current? Yeah. Or current, I'd go Josh Allen.
Josh Allen, accuracy. He's great, man.
Whose arm strength would you go with? What'd you do? You did... Current? Yeah, well, yeah.
Current, I'd go Josh Allen. Josh Allen, Current.
I think former, we did a lot of Favre. Elway.
I think I did Elway was mine for former. How about scramble abilities? I went Michael Vick, like athleticism.
A lot of people go Lamar. Who's yours? Maybe Josh Allen, man.
I just like the way he hits hard. He'll dive over you.
All right, Connelly, throwback three. I have a different, I'm going with a different, just because, you know.
Yeah, mix it up. You know what I mean? So I'm going to go try to mix up a little bit.
The first one was the Michael Phelps one because we were shooting in New York. It was the last day of the season.
Yes. It was the last day of the season.
We were wrapping up. Last shot.
And we're shooting live in the crosswalk. In the middle of Manhattan.
Set it there in the middle of Manhattan, and somebody spots him walking. He's going for the NBC building.
He was doing interviews because he just got back from the Olympics. He was going there.
He just got... I mean, it was like days after he won all those medals.
Nobody called him. They ran into him.
That's awesome. And said, hey, will you do a cameo? Somebody grabbed him, and it's like, they set him up on the one side of the street, and I was set up on the other.
And also, you know, it's like a big dude, right? So it's like, and I got to bump him out. It was like staying alive when Travolta and Stallone kind of bump into each other.
I had to bump into him, you know? And I figured, I'm like, you know, he probably hasn't done this. I gotta, you know, I gotta lead this one to him.
So it was like a little challenging and it was, I mean, honestly, like people were looking at him in the street and it was like, it was a different kind of wow factor right after that. It's a good one.
Yeah. And then, I thought an underrated acting performance was Steve Nash.
That's right. Quick one.
Yeah, Nash did a good job. Did not seem like it was his first rodeo.
I thought he was pretty good. You liked his performance.
I enjoyed his performance because I think they pretty much just dropped it on him. Yeah.
I don't think that was like a big setup thing. It was like he was there.
I mean, they pulled him out of the third row. They pulled him out of the bleachers and said, get in the game.
Put a mic on him and said, get in the game and we kind of ran through this scene. So I was impressed with him.
That's a good one. And then, you know, I liked, you know, the Tyson thing was always.
Oh, that's right. Tyson was on.
How do I forget? Oh, that was cool. Yeah.
That was fun. How do I forget about Tyson? Yes.
I mean, there were so many. There were so many of those.
And of course, you know, Gronk, you know Ooh, the Gronk. We worked at it late night.
This was during the movie. We worked until like 3 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the morning.
And there was like, they called second meal or third meal or whatever. And it was just really soup.
It was like a chunky soup. He was feeding people.
I think he just like hung out. He was feeding your bowl.
You come up with your bowl and Gronk. He was like a little kid, man.
He was just having a great time. The day I broke my leg later in the day.
Remember, Jerry? I had to do this scene where you and Ronda walk in on me. Connelly has a...
So Connelly breaks his leg and then has a love scene later. Right? And me and Ronda Rousey walk in on him.
My ankles are down around my ankles. I'm like, it hurt to have my pants around.
What did Gronk say? Didn't Gronk say? Well, I was like joking with him. I was like, man, I got the scene after lunch, man.
I got a, I got a sex scene. I go, what's that shot called? And he's like, you don't want a shot if you can have sex, bro.
Gronk, hopefully I'm not the one breaking this team, but we don't really do that, you know? That's actually, he's called filming. Yeah, exactly.
Oh no, we're not really having sex. He was worried about your performance in the bedroom if you take the shot.
That's typical Gronk. Wow, that was so funny.
But even Ronda was a great one, too. So Ronda makes the list for me.
Right, because also Ronda was around. You had your three.
Let's hear where you have the Ronda one. I go with Ronda, and what was crazy, too, is then I got to meet her before we shot, and then we filmed., but then she goes on to fight and I never really got to know a fighter personally on that level.
And I can't even imagine what it's like for fighters' families. Because I'm like watching her fight on pay-per-view at home and I'm nervous and I only know her for like a year.
So Rhonda for me, for sure. I think a good sneaky one.
It's a long cameo. Yes.
Because we really got to spend time on her. It's barely a cameo.
She had like a part. She had like a part but a sneaky one that I didn't even really work with him that much but I've now become friendly with him but you Kevin Love no one even knows he was in when Vince gets beat up by Eminem words I never thought I'd say Johnny Drama we know who has that one shot Johnny Drama could put you on your ass in one shot but Kevin Love grabs him in a a bear hug.
And weren't you really like, yo, that's one of the strongest dudes ever. Take it easy, bro.
My arms are up. He got just my rib cage.
Such a big... And he started squeezing as hard as he could.
And I was like, I was afraid he was going to collapse my ribs. I mean, he's a big strong guy, and I had to say, hey, dude, go a little easier.
I'm afraid you're going to collapse my ribs. Crush you like a copper.
Like a paper cup. I mean, he's a big, strong guy.
And I had to say, hey, dude, go a little easier. Chill, man.
I'm afraid you're going to break my, you know, totally collapse my rib cage. He could very well.
I'm sorry, dude. I get carried away.
He's a really, really cool guy, man. He was also in the scene where I confront Scott Conn about giving him cocaine.
Yes, yes. So many weird, like, Caleb is just in there.
He aired there a couple times. Good, And the last one, not to be more obvious, but you got to tip the cap to LeBron.
Oh, no doubt. That was when I came to set for a cameo.
I never really did it much either. I came for Mickelson, and I came for LeBron.
And I remember, too, it was right after on PTI. Remember, pardon the interruption? Something came.
They were talking about LeBron and Maverick and his crew, and they did something in the news, and Kornheiser goes, Wilbon, it is exactly what Vince and E would do. LeBron and Mav.
And then he comes on the show the next week, and it was, that was a bananas day. It was LeBron, Matt Damon.
I also remember, like, because, you know, people say that, like, oh, you want to come and set up. I'm like, let me tell you something.
You're going to last about six minutes. Right.
Because you're going to be bored senseless. You're going to move too slow and you're going to want to leave.
I would have friends that say, well, I'll be extras. I'm like, yo, you don't want to be an extra.
Because you're stuck in that shot. Because once they fire that first shot on you, you're in.
You're in. Wow.
That's a throwback three right there. That's it.
Good job. Fellas.
it the boys the boys were back we gotta get Grenier next it'll be a heavy sports conversation according to you that might be a tough one to get on no one Yeah, yeah. He could be pretty remote, for lack of a word.

But we'll get him on.

Who knows?

Maybe we'll even get Emmanuel.

We'll get Emmanuel on.

Who knows?

Let's do it, man.

That was fun.

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Right, Matt?

Yes, sir.

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Go USA.

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