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Vincent "Vince" Chase is a fictional character on the Dramedy Television Series '' Entourage ''. He is played by Adrian Grenier . FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY Personal life Vince grew up in Queens , New York , one of six children in the Chase family. Vince's father was an alcoholic, and his absence in the episode " Aquamom " suggests that he is dead or estranged from the family. Vince's older brother, Johnny "Drama" Chase , is also an actor and has been living in Hollywood for at least twelve years, but with considerably less success. Johnny and Vince live together in California, with the former financially dependent on the latter until later on in the show - Johnny was cast in a pilot series (Five Towns), while Vince invested the bulk of his personal fortune in a movie script (Medellin). Vince got his start in show business in an appearance in a Vicks commercial and was later discovered by Ari Gold during a Mentos TV advertisement. Vince often shows disdain for the money that rules Hollywood and shows a general appreciation for the art of cinema. Throughout the series, Vince talks about how he and his entourage are "living the life" after growing up with little money, at one point saying that "I came from nothing, and as much as I like the toys, I can live without them" when told that offers for him are drying up. He is eager to share the financial and social spoils of his current stardom with them, who he thinks of as his family. While at first glance it seems that his friends are just leeches, they prove to be the ones he can depend on through thick and thin. Vince's disdain for money may be why he has only done four movies in five years, as he seems to be against working more than three months a year. With a four-million-dollar home and expensive lifestyle, many economists and financial gurus believe that Vince may need to start working more or bankruptcy could be on the horizon for the young Hollywood star. Career Vincent "Vinnie" Chase is a young Hollywood movie star described as potentially the best young actor of his generation. His breakout role was as the lead in the film ''Head On'', co-starring Jessica Alba . Afer ''Head On'', he was offered a role in the action film ''Matterhorn'', but he passed. Instead he chose to star in the independent film, ''Queens Boulevard'', based on the advice of his manager and best friend "E" . The film is about a man, presumably, running from the law in Queens , New York . It was directed by egotistical filmmaker, Billy Walsh. ''Queens Boulevard'' (or ''Q.B.'') was submitted to The Sundance Film Festival upon completion, where it was well received, and even winning the Grand Jury Award that year. After the succes of ''Q.B.'' Vince was offered the title role in the film ''Aquaman'', which was to be directed by the master of big budget films, James Cameron . The movie became a massive success, making $116 million in ticket sales on its opening weekend, breaking the record set by '' Spider-Man ''. After the success of ''Aquaman'', Vince was offered the role Pablo Escobar , in the bio-pic, '' Medellín '', a film he discovered and wanted to do before ''Aquaman'', and was set to be directed by '' Crash '' director Paul Haggis . But conflict arose when a sequel to ''Aquaman'' was greenlit with the exact same start date as ''Medellín''. ''Medellín'' was the film Vince wanted to do, and while he did attempt to work out a deal to do both movies at once, the head of Warner Bros. reneged on his earlier promise to allow Vince to do ''Medellin''. Vince held to his principles, and was subsequently replaced by Jake Gyllenhaal for the ''Aquaman'' sequel. During his trouble getting out of his ''Aquaman'' contract, Vince finds that he has already lost his role in ''Medellín'' to Benicio Del Toro , now leaving him jobless. Vince then found a new project entitled ''I Wanna Be Sedated'', a biopic about punk-rocker Joey Ramone and his band The Ramones . But after termoil with the films producer, Bob Ryan, and Vince's agent, Ari Gold , the project was sold to Warner Bros., who refused to offer Vince another film for the rest of his career. This also led Vince to fire Ari Gold. His new agent, Amanda, found him a new project entitled ''The Glimpses of the Moon'', an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, and to be directed by Sam Mendes . But soon Vince found that ''Medellín'' might still be possible to get from his former agent Ari. So in hopes of getting his dream project, Vince begins procrastinating on ''Glimpses''. After officially receiving an offer for ''Medellín'' at the very last minute, complications in negotiations caused by them falling in the holiday of Yom Kippur , the film was dumped by the producer. After feeling Amanda let him down on this, Vince re-hires Ari Gold as his agent. This leads to negotiations of Vince buying the script for ''Medellín'', which he was only able to do after selling his home. After having bought the script, this leads to negotiations with film producer Nick "Nicky" Rubenstein, to finance the project for $30 million dollars. Vince then chose Billy Walsh to direct, who at the time was now directing pornographic films under the alias Wally Balls. After the project was completed, Walsh submitted the movie to the Cannes Film Festival where it was accepted. After a trailer of ''Medellín'' made and leaked onto YouTube , people began to rave over the film. Hype began to build so greatly, that Vince and Walsh were offered the film adaption of the novel ''Lost in the Clouds''. Pre-production on the film ''Lost in the Clouds'' began with Vince planned to star and Walsh to write/direct. But when Walsh wasn't able to adapt the novel, he began work on a script called ''Silo'', a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2075. After Ari somehow managed to sell the studio on the new project, ''Lost in the Clouds'' was dumped, and pre-production on ''Silo'' began. When the Cannes Film Festival finally came around, the hype for ''Medellín'' has grown so large that apon arrival, Vince and Walsh were receiving multi-million dollar offers for the film before it even premiered, the highest bidder being Yair Marx at 75 million dollars. But after the movie finally premiered, the reception in the theater was overwhelmingly negative. Marx withdrew his offer, but Harvey Weingaurd decided to buy, for 1 dollar. Adding a small bright side to things, Ari told Vince, "you should have seen '' Shakespeare In Love '' before Harvey got his hands on it." Vincent and the Boys along with Billy Walsh will be making ''Silo'' during the break between season 4 and season 5. Most likely we will see a premier of it in the first few episodes or the preimer of Medellin fixed in threatres around the world. INSPIRATION The character is named after the Hollywood acting coach who worked with Mark Wahlberg on (and appears in) the Bill Paxton feature ''Traveller''. However, the character of Vincent Chase is loosely based on Mark Wahlberg himself. Wahlberg is an executive producer for '' Entourage '' and has achieved Hollywood success similar to the fictional success of Vincent. Vince's friend/personal assistant, Turtle, is based on Wahlberg's friend and former personal assistant Donny "Donkey" Carroll. Like Turtle, who moved to California from New York, NY 's inner city ( Queens, NY ) with Vince, Donny followed Mark Wahlberg from Boston 's inner city ( Dorchester, MA ) {Link without Title} . TRIVIA
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