i was thinking of selling beauty products right next to the perfume. beauty products on display? clip from mr. selfridge which made its debut last sunday. some are calling it the new downton abbey which is quite a coup. jeremy piven is with me now. i ve heard you do a little accent. you know what, i really don t. come on, have a go. no, here s the thing. at the end of the funny or die video, it just said do a british accent. you know. so i basically just imitated at that moment, because you have to be cackling women, so i just started you want me to do it because it s so horrible. i do, yeah. how bad is it? well, i have no idea because you know what s interesting is when i met with the producers for mr. selfridge, i said harry is from chicago and there s a very hard chicago accent, it s hard rs, chicago, cars and bars, so i did this accent for him, and they said please don t ever do that again.
comprende? nod if you understand what i m saying. i understand. you can t just [ bleep ] nod? i met the actor that played lloyd. i wanted to hug him. i wanted to bring him in and tell him it was all going to be okay. i have to tell you, each morning i would go up to him and say are you all right with this, i swear, are you okay, i m about to say, you know what i m going to say to you, because i just want to make sure, are you all right with this. he goes yeah, it s totally fine. he was like yes, it s going to be fun. then i realized why do i keep apologizing, you know. he s totally fine with it. and he had a great he was such a good sport. rex lee, by the way, as an actor, he s an assassin. he will steal the scene from you at any point. of course. and he began to. he began to challenge you. there s the movie keeps being mooted but is your success in this new show, mr. selfridge, is that going to affect the movie of the filming? it will affect everyone in my life because i
that s the worst thing i ve ever heard in my life. i ve got another bone to pick with you which is this. it s not really about the accent. it s about what you said about football, the real football, the one that we have in our country. you said that our football was a celebration of nothing and quote, most the most unfit men watching the most fit men. yes. i resent that, piven. because i am one of those unfit men, most unfit men. so you resemble the remark, you don t resent it. you resemble it. here s the reality. if you were to go on further in that interview i said the reality may be is that it is a brilliant sport that we don t know much about, and that s the end of that. so you took it out of context. it happens all the time. let s turn to mr. selfridge because i m fascinated by this. this is a series of leadership quotes which he apparently, the real mr. selfridge, came out with. i want to run through them and see what you think of this. how many you would personally
think? lot of total self-interest here. well, you know, you just don t know. there s so many things that have to happen. i don t know, but do you know? you know, i feel like i m the last to know, if that makes any sense. i don t know why that is, but it s all part of it. give me a flicker of hope? well, yes, there is, you know, warner brothers has commissioned a script. there is a script. and things are progressing. i have to go and leave in a little bit to london to shoot season two, we have been picked up, see congratulations. you see how i seamlessly tried you did. nice, isn t it? you have wriggled again away from the question. i think i know why. i will leave you to negotiate whatever it is you re negotiating. i would love to see entourage movie but i would also love to see a second season of mr. selfridge because it s a terrific season. thank you. really enjoyed the first one. i appreciate you coming in. thank you very much. thank you for having me.
chief of staff and ezequiel i just interviewed ezequiel. probably the smartest of all three of them. yes indeed. you can imagine that passover table. ari getting the least respect of these brilliant prolific guys which is an idea i would pitch all the time to everyone and anyone that would listen on entourage. mr. selfridge is, in my opinion, ultimately the antithesis of ari in the way that he is a master of the high road. he came up with with the credo that the customer s always right, you treat them like guests, so he was so kind and he would always, almost like obama, when obama s in the middle of a speech and someone yells you re a liar, he smiles and he defuses all of that by taking the high road. that s kind of very much the way mr. selfridge is. but he has his own demons and he s a risk junkie and he loves to gamble and he loves women, and he fancies himself a performer. you had a great line that your mother sort of gritted her