The drama series Mr. Selfridge, which airs on PBS' Masterpiece Classic, tells the story of an American man, named Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven in his first television role since Entourage), who created the renowned London department store Selfridges in 1909 and changed shopping forever. With an incredible charm and bold vision, the fancy window displays, cosmetics counters and merchandise Selfridge would allow potential customers to touch would eventually become commonplace. During this exclusive interview with Collider, actor Jeremy Piven talked about how he came to be a part of this television series, what makes Harry Selfridge such an interesting man, the similarities between Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, that he's become very protective of this character, how viewers will get to see the light and dark sides of this man, and that he would love to continue exploring this role for future seasons. He also talked about the fans' desire to see an Entourage movie, and not being worried about making a misstep by continuing the story for a feature. Check out what he had to say after the jump. Collider: How did you come to this? JEREMY PIVEN: I got lucky. They came to me. My agent showed me some of Andrew Davies' ideas for the series, and basically laid out the story arc for the pilot and for episodes to come. I've never seen someone so meticulous and so prolific. He knew what he wanted to do for four seasons. When you do a television show in the States, you get ...
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