Let's hug it out! Jeremy Piven, 49, opens up for Us.
1. While doing a school play with my niece Pearl [McKay, 10], she turned to me and said, “Do you think this is fun for me?”
2. I’ve done yoga for 20 years and still don’t know what I’m doing.
3. I have a viciously mediocre meditation practice.
4. I learned to play the drums in Cuba. I’ve been four times. Don’t tell.
5. I still run lines with my mom, Joyce.
6. I was a linebacker on my high school football team.
7. I was born in NYC and grew up in Chi-town.
8. I once asked Michael Jordan, “Have you let the healing begin since you were snubbed at the Oscars for Space Jam?”
9. I didn’t dress up for Halloween this year and was told I had an awesome Tom Ford costume.
10. I’m an excellent tipper.
11. Mike Tyson told me I look like the “captain of the Jewish debate team.”
12. I have very ticklish feet.
13. I’m obsessed with the new social media app Spin My Planet.
14. My favorite movie is Apocalypse Now.
15. I’ve always wanted to go to Cambodia. Hopefully, I can make it happen soon.
16. I’m a huge UFC fan.
17. At the time I played George on an episode of Seinfeld, I had never seen the show.
18. Bulletproof coffee is my favorite for waking up in the morning.
19. I can do the splits.
20. William H. Macy was my babysitter.
21. The character of Ari on Entourage was intended to be a small “fringe” character.
22. I went to summer camp almost every year as a kid.
23. I enjoy a good cigar.
24. The Piven Theatre Workshop, where I studied, partners with Off the Street Club to let kids from the West Side of Chicago do improv and theater games for free.
25. When I still lived at home, my father directed himself in a production of Macbeth, with my mother playing Lady Macbeth and me as Malcolm.
Mr. Selfridge returns to PBS’ Masterpiece March 29 at 9 p.m.
