Verner Vollstedt is a minor recurring character in Entourage, played by Stellan Skarsgård.
Verner Vollstedt is a respected German director with two Oscar awards to his credit, who only appears in the Season 5 episodes "Pie, "Seth Green Day," and "Play'n with Fire" as the director of Vince's new film, Smoke Jumpers.
However, tension arises when Verner gives the majority of Vince's lines away to Jason Patric, claiming that Vince is not a gifted actor (despite the successes of his other films) and tries to point out some of Vince's allegedly bad acting mannerisms to him.
Over the rest of the story arc, Vollstedt admits he never wanted Vince to be part of the movie in the first place if not for Ari's deal with relatively new Warner Bros. studio president Dana Gordon, and even orders Turtle and Drama off the set. He fires Vince after shooting multiple takes of a critical scene without producing what he thinks is tangible results.
Since even Ari's intervention would not convince him to give Vince a second chance, Verner scrambles to explain his side to Dana Gordon and studio chairman John Ellis, claiming that there are better actors than Vince which Vollstedt can hire for the main role, such as Joaquin Phoenix. Eventually, Ellis decides to stop production of the movie because of the problems between Vince and Hollstedt, Hollstedt's heated battle with the studio over the main role, from which he doesn't seem to give any indication to back off, and the fact that the film has significantly exceeded the already big USD 120 million budget, leaving everyone empty-handed.