Hader spoke to me the other day, via Zoom, from his home in Los Angeles, about the final season of “Barry” and his winding trajectory toward making it. You don’t expect the bleakest show on television to come from a guy who both looks and sounds like a mid-century milkman. That his dream often looks, to viewers, like more of a nightmare, is part of the fun.
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After leaving the show, in 2013, he starred in the rom-com “ Trainwreck” and co-created the niche spoof show “Documentary Now!,” but it was not until creating “Barry,” alongside the veteran TV producer Alec Berg, that he felt that he was finally fulfilling his original dream. In a 2019 profile, Hader told my colleague Tad Friend that he spent the majority of his time at “S.N.L.” believing that he was about to be fired. Then, on a whim, in 2003, he joined a Second City improv class, and in less than two years had been cast on “S.N.L.” This career whiplash led to a period of severe imposter syndrome. He spent his entire twenties doing odd below-the-line jobs on film and television sets. He moved to Los Angeles in 1999 to work as a production assistant in the movies with the goal of directing one day.
Growing up in Oklahoma, he idolized independent filmmakers and classic screwball farces, and he never really intended to make a detour into sketch comedy. Hader, who is forty-four years old, spent eight years on “Saturday Night Live” doing spot-on impressions (of Alan Alda, Al Pacino, and Vincent Price, among others) and original eccentric characters such as the gadfly club promoter Stefon.
Have I mentioned that “Barry” is supposed to be a comedy? After a harrowing reveal in one recent episode, one viewer tweeted, “bill hader expect an invoice from my therapist.” He tortures Fuches and verbally batters Sally. He massacres a crew of low-level mob lackeys inside a dingy warehouse. He kills an old Army buddy in a parked car and makes it look like a suicide. He kills his acting teacher’s policewoman girlfriend just as she begins to unravel his criminal past.
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In the course of four seasons-the series finale is May 28th-Barry maintains an outward gee-golly affect while becoming evermore monstrous within. There, he finds both a purpose and a girlfriend (the striving Sally, played by Sarah Goldberg) and begins to feel that he might change his fate-until his assassin dispatcher, Monroe Fuches (Stephen Root), draws him back into the killing business, and in doing so enmeshes Barry in the ruthless dealings of the Chechen mafia. In the show’s pilot, which premièred in 2018, Barry stumbles into an amateur acting class taught by a pompous has-been (Henry Winkler). The HBO show “ Barry” centers on a former marine, played by Bill Hader, who has transitioned his field killing skills into a career as a hit man for hire in the grisly Los Angeles underworld.
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