Jeremy Piven Mocked By Former Castmates Raul Esparza & Elizabeth Moss (Photos)

Posted on December 22, 2008

: Jeremy Piven, Elisabeth Moss and Raul Esparza

Jeremy Piven, Elisabeth Moss and Raul EsparzaJeremy Piven recently pulled out of Broadway’s “Speed the Plow” due to feeling ill from a high mercury count, and now his former castmates Raul Esparza and Elizabeth Moss are making fun of Piven and are happy he’s gone.

Piven’s former Broadway buds Raul Esparza and Elizabeth Moss have now joined playwright David Mamet in making fun of Jeremy and acting as if they are relieved he is gone!

Fox News reported that:

Sources say that when the matinee was finished yesterday, Esparza suddenly addressed the audience…
According to those who saw this, Esparza — famous for being outspoken — reamed Piven while Moss, my sources say, “sobbed.”

“‘He said, I’m sure you’ve read the headlines about the silliness in our show.’ Then he said, Today was the first time I really enjoyed playing this show.’ I hope you weren’t expecting a big TV star.” It was pretty emotional.”

Esparza has a reputation for being lively — and much of a diva himself.

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But actor Fisher Stevens came to Piven’s defense:

“I believe him. His numbers are off the charts,” Stevens, who suffered from mercury poisoning this year, told Page Six. Stevens says that while he was producing his upcoming Sundance entry, “The Cove,” a documentary about the slaughter of mercury-loaded dolphins in the Far East, he ate fish four or five times a week. “I started feeling really sluggish and had no energy. It turns out the larger the fish, the higher the levels. I only eat small fish now.”

That’s pretty mean of his former castmates but Piven always does seem like a cocky douche, don’t you guys think?

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