STACK #128 Jun 2016

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That was then, the last episode of Entourage , 2011

This is now, Entourage , The Movie, out now!

LOOK WHO'S BACK!

A fter playing a fictional movie idol on TV for eight years, Entourage ’s Adrian Grenier confesses he still feels like he is Vinnie Chase: “Sometimes I’m in a meeting and I have a déjà vu, where I start looking for the cameras. Am I in the show or am I in real life?” As a TV series, Entourage ran for seven years, a sort of Sex and the City for blokes. After four years off the air, the guys have finally reunited on the big screen, alongside a slew of guest cameos including Jessica Alba, Liam Neeson and of course Mark Wahlberg,

necessarily loyal, but that’s not me,” he says. “When people don’t know me, they get

whose Hollywood lifestyle inspired the original series. Of all of Entourage ’s stars, including Jerry Ferrara’s Turtle, Kevin Connolly’s E and Kevin Dillon’s Johnny Drama, Jeremy Piven’s brash agent Ari Gold is perhaps the most memorable for his tantrums and expletive-ridden insensitivity. Meeting with a meek Piven today, he says he’s still fighting against public perception that he and Gold are one and the same. “In real life I’m just a softy. There are yellers and screamers in the business and folks who are not

reveals. "One time there was a girl I was dating and it didn’t work out but the guys were all offended on my behalf and were freezing her out when they saw her. It was touching that they cared so much but I had to call off the dogs and tell them to cool it." Gill Pringle • Entourage is in cinemas June 4 Check out more Cinema Buzz and cinema reviews on page 22

confused why I’m not a rageholic, why I’m not this offensive, fast talking, abrasive Hollywood agent. Some of the lines I have to say to Lloyd, I would blush just saying out loud in front of you.” It comes as no surprise to learn that the actors have become as close in real life as their screen alter-egos. “There is this brotherly rapport. They have my back, sometimes to a fault," Grenier

INTO THE WILD

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio on set in The Revenant

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning director of Birdman , takes an all-star cast deep into uncharted territory in his next eagerly anticipated film, The Revenant . Set in the 1820s, Leonardo DiCaprio saddles up as frontiersman Hugh Glass, who suffers a mishap and is left for dead by his companion John Fitzgerald, played by Tom Hardy. With steely resolve, Glass undertakes an epic journey through hostile terrain to exact revenge on Fitzgerald. This grim tale of obsession and survival is based on a true story, and with Iñárritu at the helm, it's already been tipped as a 2016 Oscar contender. The Revenant is set to hit Australian cinemas in the first week of 2016.

In the meantime, don't miss Alejandro G. Iñárritu's dazzling, Oscar-winning triumph Birdman , set to hit JB Hi-Fi shelves on June 11. Check out our feature in this issue, on page 38, and the review on page 48.

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