Entourage filmed at some of the most iconic Los Angeles hotspots — but some locations didn’t open themselves up to the show until season 2. “A lot of [places] turned us down to get cameos early on because we weren’t established,” Jerry Ferrara , who played Turtle, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting his partnership with Cadillac. “A lot of the people we were reaching out to didn’t quite know if we were trying to make fun of them, or if they were in on the joke.
” Entourage premiered on HBO in July 2004. After the first season, “all the doors opened up,” Ferrara recalled. “I don’t really think there was a location that said no to us.
The hardest one was, probably, [when] we did an episode sitting courtside at the Lakers game,” he shared. “As much as they were excited about us coming in there, they did not want us interrupting the game or taking focus away from the game.” To celebrate the Entourage 20-year anniversary — which took place on Thursday, July 18 — Us drove around L.
A. with Ferrara (in a Cadillac 2025 Escalade, of course) to look back at some of the locations that the show helped make a household name. Perhaps the most famous, Urth Café.
“Urth Café is a wonderful coffee shop, love it. Did not think it would become almost, like, a home base for us. This is our hangout spot,” Ferrara gushed while passing by the restaurant.
“Even my buddies back in New York, when they would come visit L.A., they would say, ‘Take me to .