Piven: “I hate that he’s taller than me, too…”
They were the best of friends…until one of them got too famous for the other one’s liking. Given that the individuals in question are Jeremy Piven and John Cusack, you’d think it would be Piven who’s being accused of letting petty jealousy get in the way of a decades-long friendship…but you’d be wrong.
According to an upcoming interview with “Best Life” magazine:
“No comment. I mean, you could fill in the blank, I bet,” the 41-year-old actor says when asked how Cusack has handled Piven’s recent success. […]
“… I was always proud of him, and I was always in his corner,” Piven says of the 40-year-old Cusack. “Always.”
[…]It just says so much about a person if he has space for other people’s success,” he says.
“I have always been so proud of my friends’ success. I own that proudly because I come by it naturally. I was raised on that spirit of collaboration. … You start getting into trouble in life when you start comparing and contrasting your life to anyone else’s. You don’t win when you do that.”
Of course, you also don’t win when you flaunt your superior moral fiber in the media (and in Best Life magazine, of all places: not exactly a Vanity Fair cover story…), accusing a longtime pal of behavior that’s not altogether different from, say, your recent snubbing of Jack Black because of his breakout success in your buddy’s pet project SIX YEARS AGO.
We’re just sayin’.
