Jeremy Piven Reveals Beef With Benedict Cumberbatch: He's a 'Cumberb----'

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
11:32 PM PDT 3/19/2014 by Debbie Emery

Jeremy Piven was the special guest on Jeremy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday, and while he is currently shooting his most famous role in the Entourage movie, it was the PBS series Mr. Selfridge that he was most keen to talk about.

It is like Willy Wonka meets Rob Ford -- if you take mushrooms you can appreciate that," he told Jimmy Kimmel, in his strange description of the period drama that tells the story of the founder of London department store Selfridge & Co.

"PBS is putting it out and we went and did a Q&A for the critics and they said we were going to share it with Sherlock," explained Piven, who was told: "'You'll do your Q&A, they'll do theirs, then we'll put it out to the critics and if they have any questions they will come to the stage and ask you or Sherlock questions.'

"They guide me to the stage in the dark and when the lights come on they say, 'Please give your questions to Sherlock,' and they forgot to say Mr. Selfridge. I am standing there on the stage while hundreds of people made their way to Benedict Cumberb----," he joked as ABC's censors beeped out his obscene version of the British star's name.

"By the way, he is a brilliant actor and a true gentleman and Sherlock is genius. I am a huge fan and he'll never speak to me again!" Piven said, adding that being ignored by the masses on stage "was so humbling and horrifying."


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Jeremy Piven Reveals His Love for Tom Hardy's Balls in 'Fault'!

 JUST JARED
February 13, 2014



On his acting idols: “The first person to come to mind would be Javier Bardem. He never lets you down. He’s a complete and utter inspiration. I like Tom Hardy’s balls. I mean not literally, I’ve never seen Tom Hardy’s balls, just for the record. We worked together in Black Hawk Down and he’s a gamer, he’s always up for it, he’s fearless and he’s really fun to watch as well. Mark Rylance – I was lucky enough to see him on stage in Twelfth Night and I hope to see him in Richard III in New York. He’s completely improvisational, totally alive on stage doing Shakespeare.”

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'Mr. Selfridge' premiere: What did you think? By Andrea Reiher March 31, 2013 11:00 PM ET (ZAP 2 IT)

PBS' "Masterpiece Classic" debuted a new drama Sunday (March 31), hoping to attract the viewers who are currently in "Downton Abbey" withdrawal with period piece "Mr. Selfridge," which has already aired in the U.K. to solid ratings, averaging 8.5 million viewers per episode.

The question is -- will it catch on here in the U.S.?

Star Jeremy Piven is best known for his work as Ari Gold on "Entourage," a fast-talking, neurotic Hollywood talent agent. We can't imagine that "Mr. Selfridge" is going to attract many "Entourage" viewers, so we're curious as to the PBS viewer reaction to Piven in the titular role, which is not unlike his "Entourage" character.

For us, while Piven is certainly a solid Selfridge, we found the supporting characters even more interesting. In particular, Aisling Loftus as Agnes Towler, a shop girl who takes care of her younger brother and has to put up with a mooching, alcoholic father.

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'Mr. Selfridge' could profit from 'Downton Abbey' love Carol Memmott (USA TODAY)

Can Mr. Selfridge cash in on the phenomenal success of Downton Abbey? Will the love affairs of a store's clerks and wealthy patrons enthrall viewers as much as the downstairs-upstairs goings-on at the Grantham estate?

Like Downton, Mr. Selfridge is a lavish costume drama, premiering on PBS' Masterpiece Sunday (9 ET/PT, times may vary). Also set in early 20th-century England, it's the rags-to-riches story of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the charismatic, American entrepreneur who in 1909 threw open the doors to Selfridge's, welcoming London and the world to the first truly modern department store.

"No one does period drama better than the Brits," says Jeremy Piven, the three-time Emmy-winning actor who played Hollywood agent Ari Gold in HBO's Entourage, and who stars as the bigger-than-life Selfridge. The timing, he says, couldn't be better.


"If you would have said three years ago that America would fall in love with a period drama that takes place at the turn of the century, with a group of British actors Americans weren't familiar with, that it would be a hit and it was on PBS, I think it would be hard to wrap your mind around it," Piven says.

But Mr. Selfridge is banking on more than good timing. The eight-part series is written by Andrew Davies, who has smitten audiences worldwide with screenplays based on classic characters and stories. His Pride and Prejudice, based on Jane Austen's iconic novel, will forever evoke an image of Mr. Darcy's (Colin Firth) toned torso encased in a clingy, wet white shirt.

"Mr. Selfridge is the story of one man's life, a pretty remarkable man at that, and it's a family story and a workplace story," says Davies, who loosely based the series on British writer Lindy Woodhead's 2007 biography Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge.

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Jeremy Piven: Brit actors are so humble (BELFAST TELEGRAPH)

Jeremy Piven has revealed he reckons British stars are more modest than their US peers.

The New York-born actor plays the lead role in new ITV1 Sunday night drama Mr Selfridge alongside a cast including Katherine Kelly, Frances O'Connor and Samuel West.

"What's so interesting is this is the best cast I have ever worked with, and everyone is so unbelievably good and I'm not just saying that," he told Daybreak.

"I feel like everyone is overqualified for their role. In the States we really love to celebrate ourselves and take victory laps - that's what we do as Americans. And the Brits just go to work and they work really hard and they just get on with it and everyone works on a very high level and that's just the norm.



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Jeremy Piven To Dominate Downton Abbey A New British Period Drama?? (PEREZ HILTON)

Fans of Downton Abbey, get ready to sink your anglophilic teeth into a new period-peice project starring…Jeremy Piven??!!

Our friends across the blue have penned a 10 episode series based on the life and ideas of American entrepreneur, Harry Gordon Selfridge, and they want the Piv to play Mr. Selfridge himself.

Ari Gold Jeremy Piven is currently in negotiations with ITV to play the eccentric visionary - a refreshing break from the ball-busting, short-tempered agent Piven has played for the last seven years on Entourage. For those of us without an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of British culture, Harry Selfridge was a pioneer in the shopping world, launching high street behemoth Selfridge’s in the early twentieth century, a time when women in the UK began enjoying unprecedented freedoms.

Supposedly, Harry wanted to make a woman’s shopping experience as exciting as a sexual romp. He also wished to empower the women of the British isles and celebrate their innate feminine charms (Ooo this show definitely has some steamy potential!


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Brilliant new trailer for Aardman Animation's 'The Pirates! A Band of Misfits'

By Anthony Pearson Nov 16, 2011, 21:30 GMT

 

Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz

We have added the fantastic new full movie trailer for Sony and Aardman Animation's upcoming 3D stop motion comedy, "The Pirates! A Band of Misfits."

Based on the comedy books by Gideon Defoe title "The Pirates!", the film is co-directed by Peter Lord (Chicken Run) and Jeff Newitt.

"The Pirates! A Band of Misfits" features a talented vocal cast that includes; Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, David Tennant, Brian Blessed, Salyma Hayek, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Ashley Jensen and Russell Tovey.

Watch the new full trailer for "The Pirates! A Band of Misfits" below;



"The Pirates! A Band of Misfits" is released on 2D/3D screens across the US from March 30th and the UK from March 28th, 2012.

Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It's a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

 

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