Debi Mazar thought the “Entourage” set got toxic after she had her second kid.
In an interview with The Times published Saturday, Mazar remembered how the tides shifted when she was shooting the HBO series. The actress played Vincent Chase’s publicist in the show and while it started out fun, things changed when she got pregnant with her second child.
“Season one was a joy-fest. But in the third season, the set was a testosterone-fuelled environment,” Mazar told the publication. “I’m tough, but it got toxic towards the end for me. And I’d had my second baby and they didn’t like that I got fat, even though I got skinny again.”
She added: “It was complicated because I’m outspoken and never held back my discontent. But I always was professional and I’m grateful I was on it. It was a lot of fun, until it wasn’t.”
Mazar played Shauna Roberts in “Entourage” throughout the series’ run. The HBO show was on from 2004 to 2011 and netted six Emmy wins and one Golden Globe. It got its own film in 2015 and Mazar again returned as Shauna.
Back in 2020, Mazar talked to PeopleTV’s “Couch Surfing” about her time on the show. She admitted that some of the dialogue she was given as Vincent’s foul-mouthed publicist was hard to read at times.
“I was kind of, almost like embarrassed by my dialogue, because I curse, and I obviously have the ability to be a complete trash mouth, but some of the things I would say would completely make me blush,” Mazar said.
She added: “With TV, you don’t know what they’re going to write. I took a job to make money. I mean, [creator Doug Ellin] wrote a really strong character, but that set was very testosterone-driven and misogynistic.”
“Entourage” creator Ellin responded to Mazar’s claims in a post to X Wednesday, saying that the accusations were “disgusting.”
“Never, ever did myself or anyone that matters care or discuss Debi Mazar’s body. I would one million percent embrace any woman who got pregnant,” he wrote.
“The only bodies on the show I ever commented on were Adrian’s ( I wanted him more muscular) and @jerryferrara who I wanted fatter. I will forever feel bad about that because I didn’t realize the health implications at the time and now couldnt [sic] be happier for Jerry’s transformation.”
Ellin also replied to a separate tweet in which the user sarcastically shared that they were not shocked the set was “toxic.”
“Fu. It wasn’t,” he wrote. “And you can ask 99 percent of the women who were on it, who are still good friends to this day.”
