Take the money or do it for the art. While at Joshua Tree, Chase had a vision — he has to do the supporting role in Smoke Jumpers no matter what. As the details of Smoke Jumpers were still being worked out, Chase had an awkward, but fortuitous, meeting. Everyone was very excited about the meeting until they realized Weinstein pulled a fast one. Darabont didn't want Chase for his new movie. His new movie was all cast and ready to go.
He thought, maybe, Chase could start in a new TV show he was working on. Chase and Darabont parted ways amicably and Weinstein explained he thought Vince was done with movies. That was not the case. It was around this time that Alan Gray, the head of Warner Bros.
He declined but instead positioned long term ally Dana Gordon in the role. Her first deed at studio head was casting Chase in Smoke Jumpers, and production began. The first day on set of Smoke Jumpers was Chase's first day on a set in over a year.
He was very nervous, especially with a very difficult director named Verner Vollstedt think Werner Herzog at the helm. Things only got worse when the film's star, Jason Patric, started stealing Chase's lines. Chase and Murphy confronted Patric about it and Patric said Vollstedt specifically gave him the lines. The director then told Chase he thought Chase had some major problems as an actor. Later, after doing over 50 takes on a pivotal scene, the actor and director clashed.
It was revealed the studio forced Vollstedt to cast Chase, he doesn't like him, and was systematically cutting him from the movie. He fired Chase on the spot. You know, that was not a good moment in the career of Vinnie Chase. He clashed with Vollstedt and Vollstedt flew back to the studio to fight for his movie.
Eventually the plug was pulled entirely. Smoke Jumpers was to be Vincent Chase's big comeback, but he ended up setting it on flames. Still considered damaged goods, Chase and his friends flew back to their home in Queens, New York.
Chase's mother revealed she heard Gus Van Sant was shooting a movie there and Joaquin Phoenix broke his arm on set.
Apparently, the director was in need of an actor, and fast. Murphy got on the case, going so far as to wait in Van Sant's office even after the director told him he didn't want Chase in the movie.
Van Sant explained he'd seen all Chase's films and just didn't think he's good enough. Murphy begged and pleaded for the director to look at some of the dailies from Smoke Jumpers and, reluctantly, Van Sant agreed. The director loved the scenes, they really made him look at Chase in a new light, but he still didn't think he was right for the movie. It had only been a few years since Murphy took over as Chase's manager and so far almost nothing has worked.
Chase fired Murphy. Weeks passed and Ari Gold flew into New York to check on his star. He's also had someone on the phone for him. It was Martin Scorsese. Smoke Jumpers may have been a disaster, but the brief work on that finally ignited Chase's comeback. With the release of Gatsby , Vincent Chase was back on easy street. Chase agreed to play Enzo Ferrari in a Ferrari biopic for Frank Darabont but production was pushed back several months because of weather.
He also had to get his drivers license for the first time in his life. Yes, things were great for Vincent Chase as he shot off to Italy to shoot Ferrari , but as usual, things were about to change again. By the time we caught up with Vincent Chase again, Ferrari was in the can. And probably a disappointment that he wasn't nominated for anything. While on set, the director begged Chase to do a massive car stunt himself.
Chase didn't want to do it, knew it was the wrong decision and everyone he trusted advised against it. But this was the new, gung-ho Vincent Chase so he decided to do it.
Cassevetes got the footage but Chase was banged up in the crash. This incident would eventually send the actor down a very dark path despite the movie being a success. And Cassavetes is a good director. I think that was okay. At the junket for Ferrari , Chase told Maria Menounos he hadn't seen the movie yet and it might suck.
Everyone from Murphy down to his publicist couldn't believe Chase would say such a thing and they found out he was a little zoned out on pain medication. He also cut his hair, which screwed up some reshoots Cassevetes had planned. Wallace told Chase he was about to direct a brand new superhero film from the mind of Stan Lee and written by David Benioff called Airwalker.
Chase didn't want to do another superhero film, but he figured he'd look into it. A meeting was set up with Wallace and Lee but Chase showed up high and with his new girlfriend, porn star Sasha Grey. This did not go over well with Wallace, and things got even worse when Chase got drunk on a new tequilla his buddy and driver, Turtle, was trying to sell.
Chase agreed to meet with Wallace again to smooth out any problems. However, again, Chase showed up high — this time on cocaine — because he'd been out all night.
This forced the studio to insist Chase take a drug test, which no one was happy with. He swore to Murphy, the head of the studio and others that he was clean and they all believed him. Everyone backed Chase so hard, in fact, Randall Wallace exited the project. Thankfully, Gold was friendly with Peter Berg and got him a meeting with Chase. Hecklers and bad reviews weren't going to stop Adrian Grenier from continuing his love affair with music.
The actor dreamed of having his own recording studio as a boy, and the money he made on Entourage allowed him to make that dream a reality. The "wreckroom" started as a personal hub for Grenier and his friends to jam, but the unique space he created which he called a "music incubator" became so popular with local artists that it soon grew into a full-fledged label.
Wreckroom Records became completely free for bands to use, and Grenier and his team will also make you a music video without charging a cent. We have a really cool, vibrant community that's really attractive to young artists who don't want to have to prove themselves to [labels].
With us, it's simply: 'Here is the opportunity. Everything is free. Grenier's model involves using technology to remind listeners that music is always best heard live. I want to grow the internet so that artists can use the tools and bring it back to three dimensions. Music is a wave that pushes air into your eardrums, it should always be physical. It shouldn't get lost in the digital world. Adrian Grenier spends a lot of his time on philanthropic causes and has a particular passion for green living.
He hosted environmental awareness show Alter Eco for Discovery Channel's sister station Planet Green, and in , when Entourage was starting to enter the twilight of its run, one of his side projects piqued the interest of Forbes. The business mag did a writeup on an app the actor was developing called EcoHero — a barcode-scanning tool that would allow the user to see the environmental impact of a product before purchasing it.
Sadly for Grenier and greenies everywhere, the EcoHero app never made it out of the development stage, though the actor has continuously found other ways to promote his views on the environment in the years since.
As he put it, "Getting kids involved with food is the most powerful way to help them connect with the environment, their health, and their communities. Adrian Grenier is also the co-founder of the Lonely Whale Foundation , an organization "dedicated to bringing people closer to the world's oceans through education and awareness, inspiring empathy and action for ocean health and the wellbeing of marine wildlife. The foundation was inspired by the Grenier-produced documentary The Search for the Loneliest Whale alternately Finding 52 , which follows a crew of scientists and filmmakers on an expedition to find a rare species of whale that lives its entire life in solitude because the frequencies it sings at 52hz cannot be heard by other whales.
The expedition went ahead and "succeeded in finding a major concentration of blue whales despite the warm el Nino conditions," according to lead scientist John Calambokidis , who confirmed that "close to blue whales were sighted across the multiple days including blue, fin, and humpback whales.
Adrian Grenier attempted to follow in the footsteps of Entourage producer Mark Wahlberg upon whom his character Vincent Chase was based by reinventing himself as a tough guy, though his action thriller Arsenal tanked, earning a paltry three percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Undaunted, Grenier tried again in , starring in the thriller Affairs of State , about an inexperienced campaign aide who finds himself in hot water after sleeping with a presidential candidate's wife Mimi Rogers and daughter Thora Birch.
Luckily, Vince's turn in "QB" paid off, leading to him being cast in James Cameron's blockbuster "Aquaman," a role that catapulted him to the top of Hollywood's power lists. Unfortunately, the good fortune didn't last, as Vince was dumped from "Aquaman 2" after a disagreement with the studio.
Other problems derailed Vince's involvement in both "Medellin" and "I Wanna Be Sedated," leading to the possibility that Vince's time on the A-list may be short-lived. It seemed like Vince's luck might have changed when he was cast in the big budget studio film "Smoke Jumpers" but even that didn't go as planned, when shortly into production Vince was fired by the director. However, things finally start to turn for Vince as he stages his comeback with his new movie "Gatsby", a smash hit both critically and at the box office.
In Season 7, Vince suffered a near-death experience that left him craving any kind of highs which eventually resulted in him developing a drug addiction that resulted in him being arrested and as such, Vince entered rehab for three months to get clean.
A year later, Vince met journalist Sophia Lear and after a rough start, the two eventually got together and became engaged before flying to Paris to get married.
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