No. 41652 Date 2009/08/11 15:08
Jeremy Piven Is a Serious Guy
Jeremy Piven is still testy about that whole mercury poisoning incident which caused him to drop out of the broadway's "speed for plow". Before he appeared on Its on with Alexa Chung, he got into an apparent fight with words with Chris Kattan, according to NY Daily News:
Kattan - who's been in town talking up his IFC miniseries "Bollywood
Hero" - greeted Piven with a snarky, "So, what are you here to promote,
your Broadway play?"
The actor sniped back irritably, "Well, what are you here to promote? Mango?" - a reference to Kattan's swishy "Saturday Night Live" stripper character.
The actors continued to bark for a few minutes, but while Kattan thought the argument was in jest, Piven did not.
Says an insider, "After some back and forth, Jeremy said something really personal to Chris that basically attacked his career. He said 'Whoa, man - I thought we were just fooling around here.'"
Not the right thing to say to the man who plays Ari Gold, apparently. "I'm getting sued for that s--t!" the actor shouted. "It's not funny!"
Our source adds, "Jeremy slammed the green room door right in Chris' face, and about 20 people in the hallway outside could hear him yelling obscenities. He was furious.
"Chris felt really badly about the whole thing, so about 15 minutes later he tried to approach Jeremy again to apologize, to tell him he was just kidding and that he didn't mean to offend in any way. But Jeremy wasn't having it at all. He slammed the door in Chris' face AGAIN."
The actor sniped back irritably, "Well, what are you here to promote? Mango?" - a reference to Kattan's swishy "Saturday Night Live" stripper character.
The actors continued to bark for a few minutes, but while Kattan thought the argument was in jest, Piven did not.
Says an insider, "After some back and forth, Jeremy said something really personal to Chris that basically attacked his career. He said 'Whoa, man - I thought we were just fooling around here.'"
Not the right thing to say to the man who plays Ari Gold, apparently. "I'm getting sued for that s--t!" the actor shouted. "It's not funny!"
Our source adds, "Jeremy slammed the green room door right in Chris' face, and about 20 people in the hallway outside could hear him yelling obscenities. He was furious.
"Chris felt really badly about the whole thing, so about 15 minutes later he tried to approach Jeremy again to apologize, to tell him he was just kidding and that he didn't mean to offend in any way. But Jeremy wasn't having it at all. He slammed the door in Chris' face AGAIN."
Seriously, who is Chris Kattan?
