Actress Busy Philipps has revealed that she ‘f**king hated’ the hit 2000s TV show Entourage before she landed a guest role on the series. In a recent interview with the podcast Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino, Philipps, known for her roles in shows including Dawson’s Creek and Freaks and Geeks, shared her honest thoughts on the comedy-drama.
‘Full disclosure. Like, I f**king hated that show,’ the 44-year-old said. ‘I remember, though, being sort of told, like, “This is the thing – you should do this.” Like, “You gotta do that. If you’re a hot girl, you gotta be on Entourage.”’
Philipps explained that she had auditioned for Entourage a couple of times before landing the role. Even though she ‘hated’ the series, she showered her scene partner Jerry Ferrara with praise for being the ‘sweetest’ and ‘so nice’ to work with.
‘I really just worked with Jerry and Kevin [Connolly]. And Jerry was the sweetest, like the nicest kid,’ she recalled. ‘I actually think that it was the first scene that they ever gave Turtle where he had a make-out scene with a girl.’
Busy continued, pointing out that her part on Entourage predated the introduction of intimacy coordinators on film and TV sets, and so she took Jerry to one side to outline ‘how this is going to work’.
‘I think it was right after Dawson’s Creek, so I had obviously done a lot of making out on the Creek. “I know how to do it Jerry! Listen, nothing to be nervous about,”’ she recollected.
‘So I remember having this whole conversation. He was so nice.’
Following Entourage, Busy went on to star in plenty more TV shows including How I Met Your Mother, Community, Arrested Development, New Girl, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She currently stars in Gives5eva, which aired a third season in March this year on Netflix after previously airing on Paramount, which decided that the series would not be renewed on the platform after its second outing in 2022.
Entourage is available to stream on Sky and NOW.
