TV Stars Challenge NFL Greats

Welcome to younghollywood. com. Hey everyone, it's Michelle Marie and we are here at the launch of EA Sports Madden NFL 10 for Xbox 360. We're going to take you on the field with some of TV's hottest stars to find out if they can really compete with the pros. Let's go. I'm here with Jeremy Piven here on the field and you've got your football outfit on, you've got the game face on, you're ready to go. How are you feeling?

Ready to go. It's unbelievable to be here.

Now, I know that you have some great projects.

I have The Goods, Sell Hard, Live Hard, Sell Hard, myself and Will Ferrell and Ed Helms. A Paramount movie and it's it's the funniest movie that I I've ever done and I'm insanely proud of it.

Yeah. How amazing is it to work with Will Ferrell? I mean, all of his movies are amazing.

Will is in rare form in The Goods. He just comes in and he absolutely kills it. And Ed Helms from The Hangover comes in and and crushes it. Dr. Ken from The Hangover, the the cast is just so so good. Gotta see it. It's amazing.

On Entourage again. How are your feelings about the show this season?

It's the best season yet. Uh the storyline that I have is is kind of the best and it it ramps up and the ending is incredible.

Congratulations on your Emmy nomination coming up. You guys once again, hopefully we'll take over the show. How do you feel about, you know, being back and always being on top?

It's nice that the show just keeps getting bigger and bigger and uh I really feel good things about this season. I know for my character, they wrote me some of the greatest stuff I've had ever.

Give us a little sneak peek.

Let's just say drama's going to do some crazy things this year.

You are crazy already. How crazy are you going to be?

A little crazier. Let's just put it that way. A little crazier.

We saw you last time I remember on the field at a celebrity beach ball game back at Super Bowl. And you're actually here with like Hall of Famers, like true, true players. Is that a little freaky to you?

I gotta be honest, you know, I've seen Jerry Rice and I used to have his jersey back when I was a kid and I know I'm playing against him so it's uh it's pretty cool.

You morphed into a dog on the show and now you morphed into this football player uniform now. How do you feel it?

I don't know how how uh how much I'm pulling this off. I think I pull off the dog a lot better than the football.

Oh, I love that they like make jerseys for you guys on the back. You got your name.

Not at all. I mean, you know, you get the jersey on, somehow it makes you play better, you know? You get the shoes, the jersey, the pants. But I don't know. You got like, I mean, there's legends out there, Montana, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders. I can't even believe that I'm going to be throwing the ball with these guys. It's insane. I mean.

Good thing it's not tackle football, you know what I mean?

Yeah, very good thing because Junior Seau's out there. I still kinda want him to tackle me, just to get hit by Junior Seau, you know?

You have tons of fans on True Blood and it's, you know, such an amazing show. What has been like the most memorable experience with you on the show?

There's one one thing I can't tell you that's happening near the end of the season that's so insane. Um, that's was the most memorable. And uh

Give us a little hint.

Uh, Sam's Sam's in danger. I'll just say that. I'll just say that. Sam's in big danger.

You have so many fans out there, the old Zach Morris fans. You brought it back at uh, you know, Fallon and it was amazing. What was it like getting back into character?

It was fun. I had a great time. I I I enjoyed it. Uh it was completely my idea, so um I don't know if I'll ever do it again because I don't think there'll be an opportunity where it won't come off as me looking for attention. But Fallon gave me an opportunity and I took it and and uh I think it worked out well.

The best part was the Batphone that you brought out.

Yeah, so many people love that. And those were there were specific things that I wanted to to have included. The phone was definitely one of them. Looking at the camera was another thing. Uh the timeout.

For all The Raising the Bar fans, what can we expect this season?

Just more clashes with the judges and the prosecutors, more interesting, complex cases. Uh, we bring on new perspectives with new judges and new people all the time. And we just have such a great cast and such a great list of guest stars that we go through. It's just a really compelling show to watch and I'm really proud of it.

We're gonna go play some football.

We are.