04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
While Working on the Set of ‘Entourage,' She Came Up With an Idea for a Business
In 2009, Lauren Gropper was working as a sustainability consultant on the HBO series 'Entourage.' What she saw didn't seem very sustainable.
Among other things, many sets built for the show were simply tossed in the dumpster after filming—a standard practice in Hollywood at the time, she says. Gropper's job was to evaluate how the 'Entourage' sets were designed and how they could be built to be disassembled and reused.