One of the pleasures of switching from Ari to Harry was leaving modernity behind, Piven said.
Piven: I've made (five) movies with Johnny, but this is definitely the biggest role I've had.
Don't get the wrong idea, cautions Piven, who earned three Emmys for his portrayal of power player Ari.
The contrast between the U.S. and the U.K. was part of the project's draw for him, Piven said.
Piven: This is the first year where I haven't done a series and then, with the three months off, done a movie.
Piven found himself fascinated by Selfridge's history, and added some personal memories.
Cloward and Piven are progressives, which is to say, they are leftists.
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Piven, age 47, is eager to continue his English adventure as the retailing legend, but has a confession to make: He's no shopaholic.
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He has dark features, heavy brows, and bears a slight resemblance to Jeremy Piven when he mugs for the camera with an expression that is both wide-eyed and stern.
Piven: "Very Bad Things" was the first time I ever felt in a movie that I really had a character with an arc ... that I got to be constructing.
"We would basically try to get the child to look one way, we'd turn and point to a clock and see whether or not the child would notice it, " explained Piven.
The fight could have been ripped from a script for the HBO show "Entourage, " one of whose characters, a fast-talking talent agent played by Jeremy Piven, was inspired by Mr. Emanuel.
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