‘Barry’ video interviews: Henry Winkler, Stephen Root, Anthony Carrigan and more exclusive chats [WATCH]
HBO’s “Barry” had a killer second season at the Emmys, earning 17 nominations including Best Comedy Series. Gold Derby recently spoke with several of the show’s contenders, including stars Henry Winkler, Stephen Root and Anthony Carrigan and composer David Wingo. Scroll down and click on any name below to be taken to their full interview.
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TV legend Winkler won his first Emmy last year for playing Gene Cousineau, an acting coach teaching a highly-trained assassin (Bill Hader) how to kill it with monologues. “It really is a lovely thing,” he explains when reflecting on the victory. “It doesn’t define you, it doesn’t make you better, I’m not better than anybody else in my category. All I did was win the statue,” which, he adds with a smile, “is now on my dining room table, opposite the front door, inside my house.” Winkler previously earned three bids for his star-making turn in “Happy Days,” plus nominations for “The Practice,” “Battery Park,” and the children’s program “Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?”
Fellow TV legend Root finds himself in the Emmy race for the first time playing Monroe Fuches, Barry’s opportunistic operator. “I never get nominated for anything ever,” he jokes. “It’s fantastic.” For him, “the best part was hearing from Bill that all the major cast had been nominated together.” Root, in fact, competes in the Best Comedy Supporting Actor category against Winkler, who he got to share his first scene with. “It was so wonderful to work with him,” he reveals. “It’s so crisp and clear in what he shows you. That was a joy.”
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First-time nominee Carrigan joins them in the race as NOHO Hank, an eccentric, kind-hearted Chechen mobster. “For Hank, what the crime world is about is exemplified in an eighties action movie,” he divulges. “Funnily enough, I watched a lot of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies,” to channel the character. “There’s this element to it, this cool action star guy that I think Hank so desperately wants to be. The spectacle, the coolness of it, the spy gadgets. It’s all very blown out of proportion in Hank’s mind. That’s kind of a joy to bring to the table.”
Composer Wingo earned his first Emmy nomination for scoring “Barry.” He competed at the Cinema Audio Society for the show earlier this year.
Click on any name below to be taken to their full interview:
Henry Winkler, who plays Gene Cousineau
Stephen Root, who plays Monroe Fuches
Anthony Carrigan, who plays NOHO Hank
David Wingo, composer
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