In Hollywood, when you manage someone who happens to be your best friend and meal ticket, their needs always come before your own. You stop at nothing to bring them to the top.

Such is the case for HBO's "Entourage" star Eric Murphy, also known as "E," played by Kevin Connolly. Eric started out as the pizza guy from Queens and went on to manage his bestie-turned-Hollywood heartthrob and in-demand movie star, Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier).

But you can only be the wingman for so long -- now it's "E's" time to be the stud!

"I think all of the characters have evolved to a certain extent. Certainly my character," Connolly told Latin Post in an exclusive interview in Los Angeles.

"I am getting ready to have a baby. Vince had his first divorce. He ended his starter marriage and he's ready to jump back in with the guys. It's been a natural evolution of the characters and it's been a lot of fun."

In the HBO TV series, Eric (Connolly) was known as the friendly boy-next-door type who falls in love too easily, but now he has more of an edge and is more self-assured.

Dubbed "the moral compass of the group" by Connolly, Eric has become quite the ladies' man and tries to get his rocks off any chance he can get. There's even a stand-off confrontation caused by his philandering ways.

At the same time, E's been dealing with his rocky relationship with on-again, off-again girlfriend Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui). The two are having a baby, but are no longer a couple. Eric is juggling his feelings for her with those for his new girlfriend.

"It's different. ... Ya know on the show, for so many years I did the same thing," he explained. "It was nice as actor to do something a little bit different -- a bunch of sex scenes."

"And believe it or not, I have none. I have zero," Grenier chimed in.

"He used to have them, so he came down to the set to give me some tips," Connolly added.

In an earlier interview, Connolly admitted that the sex scenes were "awkward" and involved "lots of body makeup and dieting."

Now a producer, Eric's responsibility to Vince has intensified. Vince wants to direct the movie in which he stars and he needs more money to do so. It's Eric's job to ask Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), the hysterical, high strung, agent-turned studio head who couldn't bear retirement.

"It has been such a treat to work with guys that you know that the chemistry is just natural," Grenier told Latin Post. "Sometimes you often work with people and it just doesn't click and that's just an added obstacle, but working with these guys, it's just, it's family. From the moment they yelled 'action' in the movie, we were right back in it."

Do the boys continue their bromance off-screen?

"We live together," Grenier joked.

"I really manage him," Connolly added. "We go out to dinner..."

"I am actually disappointed every morning when I come down to the kitchen at my house and he's not there," Grenier added. "And I am looking for Turtle and Johnny and I'm like, 'Johnny where's the food?' Hungry!'"

"Entourage," the much-anticipated big-screen version of the award-winning hit HBO series, reunites the hit show's original cast, led by Connolly (Eric), Grenier (Vince), Kevin Dillon (Johnny Drama), Jerry Ferrara (Turtle) and Jeremy Piven (Ari Gold), who all spoke exclusively with Latin Post.

"Entourage" also stars Billy Bob Thornton and Haley Joel Osment as father and son Larsen and Travis McCredle. Returning cast from the series also includes Perrey Reeves as Ari Gold's wife, "Mrs. Ari"; Emmanuelle Chriqui as Sloan, Eric's on-again/off-again love interest; Debi Mazar as Vince's publicist, Shauna; Rex Lee as the ever-faithful Lloyd; and Constance Zimmer as Ari's colleague Dana Gordon. Emily Ratajkowski and champion UFC fighter Ronda Rousey appear as themselves in the film.

Check out Latin Post's exclusive interview with Adrian Grenier and Kevin Connolly as well as the official trailer for "Entourage," which hits theaters on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

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