“Entourage”’s Jerry Ferrara Finally Explains the Heartfelt Origin of His Character Turtle’s ‘Real Name’ in the Series

Jerry Ferrara is revealing nan heartwarming logic his Entourage characteristic Turtle's existent sanction was Salvatore Assante.

In an Instagram station shared connected Tuesday, June 24, Ferrara, 45, wrote, "Ever wonderment why successful Entourage Turtles existent sanction was Salvatore Assante??? That was nan sanction of 1 of my awesome friends increasing up successful Brooklyn."

The character past revealed, "He passed distant acold excessively young astatine 23. He was nan best. He for judge influenced nan measurement I played turtle. I’m a batch much awkward than nan character."

He recounted memories of clip he spent pinch his puerility friend. "But my friend Sal was ne'er awkward and ever nan life of nan party," Ferrara shared. "He ne'er cared if we sewage successful problem arsenic agelong arsenic we had nosy and laughed. And he had nan champion laughter ever."

To conclude, Ferrara quipped, "I deliberation astir him each nan clip and I dream he’s up successful eden laughing that someway I sewage @mrdougellin to sanction a HBO characteristic aft him. Love you Sally Bots."

Entourage aired connected HBO from 2004 to 2011. The show followed a group of puerility friends from Queens, N.Y., arsenic they moved to Los Angeles to support nan burgeoning profession of their movie prima friend Vincent "Vince" Chase (Adrien Grenier).

Emmanuelle Chriqui, who played Sloan McQuewick, nan on-and-off woman of Vince's head Eric Murphy (Kevin Connolly), near a saccharine remark connected Ferrara's post. "Awww wow.. I didn’t cognize this. What a awesome measurement to grant your friend Jer ❤️🙏🏽," nan actress, 49, wrote.

The Sopranos alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler commented 2 bosom emojis successful support of Ferrara sharing nan precocious Assante's story.

Another Instagram personification wrote, "That’s beautiful. If he inspired that characteristic he was a Lovelace feline pinch a everlastingly chill and friends personality. He wholly deserved a awesome tv characteristic successful his grant and you nailed it."

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Speaking exclusively pinch PEOPLE successful 2024, Ferrara and Kevin Dillon, who played Johnny "Drama" Chase successful Entourage, teased a reboot of nan show. "Hell yeah, I would," Dillon said. "I emotion that show truthful much. It was truthful overmuch nosy to do. The characters were truthful fun. I mean, we've been talking astir doing a reboot for a agelong clip and I cognize everyone would emotion to do it."

"It conscionable hasn't happened for immoderate logic and hopefully someday, possibly it tin happen, you know," he continued. Dillon added that a spinoff is "not a bad call," either, but he would "really emotion to spot a reboot."

Ferrara agreed and said, "It's 1 of those things where, particularly now being a small older you opportunity yes, because of nan nosy of it each and nan nostalgia of it each too."