Barry: Anthony Carrigan in Noho Hank Rescue Mission in Season 3 Finale

[This story contains spoilers for the season three finale of HBO’s Barry, “starting now.”]

Well, the third season. Pub It’s over and somehow, again miraculously, co-creators Bill Heather and Alec Berg managed to keep all the main characters on top.

Perhaps no series regular has more reason to be grateful than Anthony Kerrigan, whose shy, honest Chechen mobster Noho Hank – a landmark scene from this season’s finale – waits patiently for him until a Bolivian clerk fixes a gun. and arrows in his neck: “Yes, I thought you were, but I didn’t mean to be rude!” – The pilot had to die first.

“At end [first] Episode I was shot in the car. … I have one of my episodes as this weird, stupid character, and that’s how it ended,” Kerrigan said. hollywood reporter In the Zoom chat before the end.

You’re welcome?

At the very least, Stephen Ruth and Henry Winkler would have one less actor to compete for best supporting role in a comedy at the Emmys. (Henry Winkler won the Season One award in 2018, his first Emmy; so all three were nominated in the Season Two category. None of them won, likely due to a split vote.)

But Noho Hank is still knocking, just a little bit, after an intense ending when he avoids stealing Panther, then disarms the guard to escape the basement cell he woke up in after the arrow’s venom ran out, and finally kills her. He went upstairs to save his friend, Bolivian drug addict Cristóbal Sipuentes (Michael Irby), who is being tortured, but in a rather ridiculous way, because he is Pub.

This is the first time in three seasons that Hank has experienced violence and he is clearly not doing well. Below, Kerrigan discusses Hank’s random rescue mission and how it affects what this season is trying to convey about the nature of the injury, and also politely endorses my suggestion of which Hui Lewis in particular and which news song to look for next. . Season’s soundtrack.

So my first surprise after seeing the finale was that another season had ended. Pub, All the main characters managed not to die. I spoke to Steven before the season and he gave me some answers that made me think, “Oh, Fuchs is over.” But it was not. So the first question: are you constantly in awe of how Bill and Alec run everyone’s lives?

Yup. Many things surprise me. I wonder how they manage to take all these characters that don’t really have to deal with being in a story and just put them together so professionally. Yes, the stakes are so high all the time that you really don’t have a sense of job security. There’s always a question mark about whether or not your character will be found at the end of the next episode. That’s one of the things I really respect. Pub But is it all in the service of history? He’s never going to fill an entire season just because he can. He’s so skinny and everything has a purpose and I’m glad we’re together as we travel. So you know, no matter what happened to Hank, he was phenomenal.

You still have to die in the pilot. Is this correct?

Yup. I should have died. Mesro was shot in the car at the end of the episode so it should have been [it]. I have one of my episodes as this weird, goofy character, and so that’s it, it’s over. I remember Bill saying, “Why didn’t you open the door and run when you got shot?” .

So in the end, that’s all, I’m going to call it a NoHo Hank genre movie within the episode. And in many interviews, Billy mentions some of the references he makes to other movies. Have you discussed anything before about the inspiration for this sequel?

We haven’t really talked about any outside guidelines and I’m glad we don’t have that. I used to think I had thoughts in terms of ears, something, you know, I could draw, but as an actor, you never want to fall behind in terms of what you’re going to do, because you can fall into the trap. to imitate him. And as an actor, I was so grateful that I could [play] That wonderful change of tone that Hank chose to go to Bolivia with this ridiculous scheme [of asking random people about the Sifuentes family to hopefully track down Cristobal] And meet the one riding on this radiator and potentially its downfall. So I was wondering how I got out of this scene where I was waiting to get information from this guy and then I hit him in the neck with an arrow (laughs), which he later heard reprimanded and tortured by his friends.

I commented on my wife building a shotgun. I don’t know, is this what actually exists or something her sponsors created specifically for this exchange?

(laughs.) Yea. .I’m not sure. You can order many things on Amazon. I’m sure it’s there. But yeah, at least for the comic book era, right? It had to be assembled, they were just cherries on the top.

As for the deterioration scene, the final script sent to us had no subtitles. So I don’t know if the ruckus in the other room was actually suggested by the voices. For example, do we know what kind of animal attacked Akhmal and Yandar if it was supposed to be a mysterious monster?

Well I know what it was. And, of course, guesswork. But I think one of the things I love about this scene is how much you can’t see and how much Hank’s reaction to everything comes through. Yes, the challenge was to convey what is happening on the other side of that wall, exactly what Hank is experiencing. [Note: In THR’s post-finale interview with Bill Hader, he referred to it, unbidden, as “the panther scene,” so: mystery solved.]

So after Hank escapes Dundulo, the scene changes from a more direct horror where you literally have a guy in a cell chained to a radiator, then he kills a monster, now I’m guessing, maybe a Jaguar?

(Kerigan’s face shows no sign of the accuracy of my hunch, although it is technically correct!)

“Maybe to horror, where he crawls down this hallway and you and the lights go on and off, right? and then we have a Pub ‘The trademark shifts in tone after Hank takes place in this farce scene where Elena tries, I think, to hit Cristobal directly. And after surviving Cristóbal, we were left with Hank’s facial expression that was me. Graduate, which goes exactly like this: “Ah, a bird. ᲐAnd now? “What’s on Hank’s mind right now?

Well, I think one of the specific themes of this season is essentially how injury doesn’t play well in a loop and doesn’t leave you once you get what you want, right? The trauma stays with you. There’s an element to what Hank does that is very heroic, although he doesn’t seem heroic, you know, because he’s so clumsy and careless and he’s so scared. But there’s something about it to muster up that courage and release and go and save the one you love. But with that being said, what he had just experienced was pretty awful, right? And I think audiences are very quick to reject what the character has been through because he’s come to an end, because he’s no longer tied down or he’s not in danger anymore, but I think that’s what really interests me. Pub Doing so emphasizes that your past will follow you and that you’re not out of the woods just because you saved a woman in danger.

I asked Bill and Alex a similar question after season one, because at least it was an uproar if Detective Moss was actually dead. Therefore, regarding Akhmal and Yandar, we can safely assume that They They’re dead?

I mean, I don’t know. And Hank probably doesn’t either, because, as you know, there’s only a limited amount of what he sees after the hole explodes. [the wall] In a very heroic and idle way with a machine gun. It was very intentional that this sequel wasn’t great. It wouldn’t be such a heroic display of machismo. In fact, it was the exact opposite: a person who was scared and didn’t know what he was doing.

I saw your last appearance Jimmy KimmelAnd he asked about the real Chechen crowd and you said, “This is YouTube. “It’s absolutely horrible.” So I did, and what I learned is that in the Russian crowd, all tattoos like Hank’s are done in prisons. Does this mean that at some point Hank spent time in a prison in Chechnya or Russia? Was it made for a character, for example, for an obvious story?

You’ve never been particularly assertive, have you? And I’m always very careful with what I construct as a story, because you never know if you’re going to find something like a flashback that’s the opposite of what you thought. But like I said, yeah, I think, you know, tattoos tell us something, and I think Hank really went through some bullshit. But so far you’ve managed to maintain your strength and optimism, right? But who knows how long that might last.

I read another interview where you said that now that you’ve had this big breakout role, you’ve been given other roles that are very similar to Noho Hank. And it always amazes me with the fantasy of Hollywood, where instead of saying, “Anthony Carrigan is a wonderful actor. Look at the man he created!” They say: “Anthony Kerrigan plays the role of a Chechen mobster perfectly, so let him do it again!”

Or Russian or Mafioso. .Incredible. Yup. Of course, this is an industry that likes to advocate a kind of formula, likes to assume that if something you do works in one field, then obviously that’s what you have to do on every other project. But Pub It’s unique and unique, and it’s just plain smart. And I think that’s the only thing I want to do next: try to find characters that have the same nuances.

you mentioned kimmel That you really enjoy listening to Hui Lewis and the news to get into Hank’s mood. I’m a big fan myself SportAnd he thinks he might need to get in touch with a music supervisor to secure the Bad Is Bad rights.

(laughs.) I mean, yes, this whole album was practically inseparable, but “Bad Is Bad”, of course.

Finally, do you have any idea what might be next for Hank and Cristóbal? The immediate danger has passed, but they’re still in Bolivia and they’ve just killed one of the country’s biggest drug addicts, so…

That’s right, since he does it lightly. I heard little things here and there from that little bird, Bill Header. But I have to take it all with caution, because I’ve heard so many stories that I get really emotional, and then I look at the scripts and I’m like, “Wait, what happened? Do you know? Will you go here if that happens?” And they’re like, “Oh, we canceled it months ago.” That said, what I’ve heard about the next season, I’ve started to start because it’s so cool. Yes, this is another example of Bill and Alec cornering and watching them walk away from him. I’m constantly excited about what they can do. And this time, of course, they went into a corner.

Well, thanks for talking to me and enjoy the summer!

Thanks man. I’m excited that people are finally watching [season three]. I had to save so much for so long. Good to share – God – Such For a long time.

I assume you and Tom Cruise talked about this? Very similar across situations. Pub The third season and Top Gun: Maverick.

Oh yeah. (laughs.) It’s basically the same project; at least according to Hank, I’m sure there are many parallels.

The interview is edited for length and clarity.