Jesse Metcalfe regrets blowing off “Entourage” audition after considering pilot script was ‘silly’

Jesse Metcalfe might've been a part of the boys' membership.

The Determined Housewives actor just lately revealed to PEOPLE at Southampton's Annual Luxurious Luncheon that he "had an audition for Entourage," and had he booked the function, would've been handed an enormous springboard to stardom early into his Hollywood profession. However it didn't fairly play out like that.

"I learn the pilot episode, and I used to be like, 'That is silly,' and I didn't go to the audition," Metcalfe defined. "Clearly, I had no thought what I used to be speaking about… That ended up being an iconic present that I completely love, and undoubtedly want I used to be part of."

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It labored out effectively sufficient for Metcalfe, who landed a job the identical yr Entourage debuted that received him immediate discover (and notoriety). He first appeared as John Rowland on the 2004 pilot episode of Determined Housewives, which aired in October on ABC – simply three months after Entourage premiered on HBO.

John was employed by Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) and Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) to maintain the garden and gardens of their Wisteria Lane residence neat and tidy. However he rapidly ended up in Gaby's mattress, making for one of many present's most talked-about plotlines.

Metcalfe was a relentless presence within the present's first season, with diminishing returns within the second, third, fourth, and sixth seasons. Thereafter he booked one other of his signature roles, the titular half within the revenge comedy John Tucker Must Die, and appeared in a predominant function on all three seasons of the 2012 Dallas revival.

Nonetheless, Entourage would have been main, particularly since he would have been "auditioning for Adrian Grenier's function."

Grenier performed Entourage's celebrity protagonist, Vincent Chase, in every of the collection eight seasons, and within the 2015 movie. The collection resulted in three consecutive Display screen Actors Guild nominations for Grenier.

"I blew that one. Generally you gotta say no, however that was the flawed one," Metcalfe mirrored. "It taught me that I don't know every thing."

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Metcalfe just lately solid his thoughts again to a distinct venture from his previous, John Tucker Should Die, which has deluged the actor with fan questions on a reboot. Though he teased a possible reboot himself in 2024, only a yr later he conceded that "it's in all probability not gonna occur… They've been sitting on the script for some time. Everybody within the solid stated they'd take part and it simply hasn't occurred."

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