“Entourage” Star Jerry Ferrara Says Some Fans Thought It Was a Reality Show: 'It Confused Even Me!' (Exclusive)

The actor, who played Turtle in the series, is looking back on its 20th anniversary, and revealing that there have been reboot talks: 'Would Vince be an influencer now?'

Entourage star Jerry Ferrara, who played Salvatore “Turtle” Assante on the HBO series, is looking back on the show that made him a star 20 years ago.

The dad of two, 44, says the series, which came out on July 18, 2004, was so true to what Hollywood was actually like that a lot of people thought it was a documentary — and that he wasn’t an actor, but actually Vincent Chase’s (Adrien Grenier's) real-life driver.

“The way it was written with snappy dialogue and the way it was filmed super wide with all four of us in the shot, people thought it was a reality show," he says. "Some people really thought we were those guys,” he says of his fellow characters Vincent Chase (Grenier), Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly), and Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon)

It got worse when Ferrara, whose character's job was to always drive the crew around in a big black Escalade, got his own Escalade in real life.

“It did become pretty confusing for fans,” he says of them seeing him roll up to restaurants behind the wheel of the luxury car.

“It may have even become confusing for me. But I just loved that car and I could finally afford it. I learned to drive on set because I’d grown up in Brooklyn and hadn’t driven that much before then. But people would see me driving and genuinely be like, 'Where’s Vince?'”

Now, he’s partnering with the company in a campaign celebrating the SUV's appearance on the show, as well as Cadillac's announcement of the 2025 Escalade. He's still a fan of the car, especially now that he's got two kids. "I just have to tell them, 'No snacks in the back!'" he jokes.

“I always said the car was like an extra location,” he says. "And Arnold the Rottweiler was an extra cast member.”

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Ferrara says it's hard to believe the show is two decades old, but he loves that people still talk about it and ask if it's coming back.

“It always heats up in the summer,” he says of the reboot chatter.

”It’s like, is Vince an influencer now?” he says with a laugh, about what it could look like. “Is Johnny Drama a brand ambassador? It’s fun to have that conversation and keep the stories alive.”

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Ferrara says he and the cast members all stay in touch, and see each other when they can, and he has nothing but amazing memories of being on set.

“I didn’t want to leave set at the end of the day,” he recalls, of shooting in the most amazing locations. “Some people, when they call 'wrap,' they're screeching out in their car to go back to their families or their friends. Meanwhile, we were shooting in some of the most unbelievable spots, like a  Malibu beach house that I'd probably never set foot in again. I was driving around an amazing Escalade with people that I’d spend my free time with anyway, and I was getting paid to hang out with them.”

So how true to Hollywood was the dialogue?

“Well, there is a real Ari," he says laughing, referring to both the character Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) and real-life Hollywood mega agent Ari Emmanuel.

"Of course, it was all exaggerated," he adds. "Like maybe in real life, Vince and his buddies would be renting a $5 million house, but producers were like, ‘Let’s give them a $25 million house. It was elevated for entertainment purposes.”

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