Larry King Goes Hollywood with Jeremy Piven

Welcome to Younghollywood. com. Oh, it's the wonderful Larry King and his lovely wife Sean. How are you?

I'm great. How are you?

Looking gorgeous. You are so beautiful.

So are you.

Well, thank you. You're going to ask Young Hollywood how you're feeling.

Yeah, of course. If you're saying Young Hollywood, yes.

Oh, I'm going to deflect that question. What's the Larry King special at Nate and Al's or whatever?

Well, I I got my own bagel place. So I go to Nate and Al's once a week, but they have Matza Bri. Which is. It's Matza Bri. It's fried Matza. It's but the Larry King Matza Bri is not is very different from the egg regular Matza Bri. It's the healthy version.

Yes.

Yeah, very healthy. They like dust.

Yum. No, no. But it's the way he likes it. He likes to eat dust. And so they prepare it for him. Can I just ask you one more quick question? Your favorite athlete of all time?

Jackie Robinson.

Good answer. Explain that. Oh, you're so and your wife is so sweet. I think she's attracted to you. I don't want to bring that up. But I'm discovering things about her every day. Standing here with Jeremy Piven, big sports fan. How are you?

Good, how are you?

I'm good. Nice to see you.

Nice to see you. You are you are absolutely right. You are amazing at this.

Thank you very, very much. You were celebrating yourself before we started rolling. You'll see how good I am at this, Jeremy.

You are. I mean, you you're asking to you're you're you're Diane Sawyer of your generation so far.

Thank you. I was aiming toward. Yes, good stuff. So talk to me about sports. I know you're a huge Laker fan. Who are you excited to see tonight?

Um, well, I just saw Dr. J. I mean, everyone here is kind of a genius. Jerry. Never met him before? Never met him. Uh Jerry Rice, I played football with. I showed him how to do some post patterns. I've got a really good. I mean my tackle him? Yeah, my 40 is just, I mean, I'm insane. Uh, I run about a 6-4 40. Jerry still runs about a 4-4. So, it was a little awkward when we played.

Favorite team, favorite sport? Basketball? Um, You're always at the Laker games. You're always sideline the sideline.

I love football. I'm from Chicago, so it would be watching the Chicago Bears and back in the day Walter Payton and and now Brian Urlacher and the boys.

What about the Fridge? We love the Fridge.

But listen. Jim McMahon.

Was that your day?

That was back in the day. The 85 Bears.

See how I knew that? Once again, you are She's like no other. Anyway, here with Quinton Aaron. There's so many incredible football players here tonight. You played a football player. And a lot of football players are really wowed by Hollywood. Have you got a lot of good feedback from the guys?

Yes, yes. A lot of them said, um, you made me cry. Um, you made my wife cry. Um, in a good way. Yeah, I always apologize just in case. You know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Who are you a big fan of here?

All athletes, because it it it takes a tremendous amount of work, hard work and dedication to do what they do. So, I'm a fan of each and every one of them.

How did you get the role in The Blind Side? Was there wasn't there some crazy story to it?

Yeah, um, I didn't have any representation at the time except for my mom. My mom was

There's no better person to push you than your mom.

Yes, she found the role for me online and submitted me to it. And, um, I'm I got called in for the audition. And after the first audition, the casting directors were crying. They were like, oh my God, we found our Michael.

What was it about it that you hooked into so much that made you stand out, you think, above everybody else?

From what they said, it was my spirit. It's just that when I came into the room, their first thought was to help me. And I did. I feel like that now. Oh, I get the hugs.

So, do you have any plans to play football with any of these guys here?

No.

You're not even going to try?

No.