Name: Tony Hale - Drawing out Emotions in “Sketch” | The Daily Show
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Please welcome Tony Hale so it's an honor being here oh my god the entire building is so excited to have you here

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Tony Hale comedic genius oh it comes from so much pain yes I assume so it always does yeah yeah it always does you have played some of the most iconic roles in TV Gary and Veep Buster Bluth in Arrested Development do you ever go back and watch old episodes of Veep just to just to remember what things could be like if we had competent adults in charge interesting you know what I don't I actually love when people come up and say they like the show and remind me of bits because I don't somebody once said they said oh I loved that bit when I'm because my aunt my hand was eaten off by a seal in the show and I was yeah and I was in the hospital and I said oh I said

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I said I love that bit when I'm the doctor says he's gonna be he's gonna be okay and somebody had to remind me that it said no he said he's gonna be all right meaning he just has a right arm yeah and this was a joke I got 15 years after I shot the show you know it's so many so late but that's what makes both of those shows actually so incredible is their jokes on jokes on jokes and you do kind of have to rewatch multiple times to catch everything I want to talk about your creative process I'm just so curious because these characters that you've played so many of them are real oddballs very specific characters and you be like yes let's push in he's getting emotional but but almost in any other hands they would be played in this kind of like broad over-the-top way but what I love about your acting so much is you're so grounded and you're so truthful and you really root for these characters so what what is your process like do you improvise do you get into a physicality yeah I remember it's very nice to say my my therapist be like oh I've got some stories I remember on on Arrested I remember asking Mitch

Hurwitz a very actory question I said what does Buster like want and he goes all he wants is safety and so I thought about Buster and that's why he has he would always go in the back like he would always be in this kind of like defensive place and because he was always like what's coming at me he was just always kind of like just looking around like what's happening so he was always kind of checking out and we're always worried someone's gonna come at him oh that's so fast it was so codependent yeah that there was a way there was a scene oh there's a scene with them where my mom Lucille Walter sorry Jessica Walter her name was

Lucille yeah one in the same but she was on house arrest and she couldn't smoke and Buster was she asked Buster to inhale the smoke out of her mouth and then exhale it on the balcony and then he would like breathe and then I would have to then I would come back and I would inhale the smoke again like a baby bird getting a worm I don't know mother and it was such a picture of codependency you know it's just like so twisted but so fun oh that Mitch

Hurwitz and I've asked you by the way yeah yeah never quite recovered from that therapy I want to talk about this new movie that you have now sketch they

I heard it described as Jurassic Park meets inside out yes yes yes it's such a fascinating movie it's so great how do you describe it oh so well this movie's taken us eight years to get made and my friend Seth Worley the writer and director who is so talented he had this idea it actually came from his situation his sister was in growing up where his sister was drawing these really dark pictures and his parents took her to a therapist because they were worried and it was a bullying situation and the therapist asked her do you want these things to happen to this bully and she was honest and she said kind of and the therapist said well I think it's a good idea that you drew them rather than left it blank you know that you that you you were creative and put it on paper rather than keeping it up here where it festers and next it gets dark and so that's where this story came from I play a worried dad who's you know seeing these pictures and then something happens where the pictures come to life and it talks about and in the movie my wife has passed away so it's all these kind of things of kids she's actually processing her feelings and I'm kind of compartmentalizing them actually there's a new term it's you know I've heard of helicopter parenting where you kind of know never heard of it, do you need more water?

It's really happening but there's a new term called a snowplow parenting where you want to remove the challenges completely from your kids which I totally relate to

I have a 19 year old and I and seeing my kid have to go through stuff and her feeling feelings you're like ah but she has to walk through that stuff to grow and my character in the movie wanted to compartmentalize and so he learned like we got to process these feelings we got to walk through it. It's such a beautiful message at the heart of it and I loved I have a nine-year-old son at home and I loved watching this movie with him and it was such I think it was helpful for him to hear but really more for me to hear how do I talk to my child about processing feelings like that there and you spend the whole movie being concerned about your daughter when you also have a son who's kind of doing the same thing that your character is doing holding all of his feelings inside. Yeah, trying to fix things yeah.

Yeah and Darcy Carden is also in the movie.

Darcy Carden from The Good Place, I mean she's so fun and kind and I mean you know like when you're working with other, you're so talented and it's like when you're working with other comic actors, you feel that you're so amazing, your timing is tight but it's like you have that trust that you can kind of have that comic dance together and Darcy was perfect so she plays my sister in the movie. And she's so great in it and she has my favorite quote in the movie she says to you at some point when you're fretting over your daughter she says I think you should stop worrying about the girls who are busy drawing about their pain and worry more about the boys who are ignoring theirs. Yeah. I thought that is why.

It's also, I mean if you think about it you talk about it on the show all the time there's a lot of finger-pointing well look what they're doing look what they're doing it's like yeah let's start pointing the finger back at ourselves. Yeah. Also this is a really fun family adventure. It is, it's very funny. Silly movie. It is very funny. It is a feel-good movie, it is funny but important messaging and really timely if you ask me. How did it feel to, this is your baby, you've been producing it for like you said eight years. It's great and it's also that feeling of like take care of my kid you know it's cuz we we championed it, championing? Okay we'll go with that. We'll fix it in post.

Thank you. But for so long and seeing it even like getting cast together and finally finding financing and the post of it you just saw the special effects are so specific but getting it out there it's it's a pretty vulnerable feeling but I'm so stoked guys it's so good. I'm so stoked for people to see it.

Because this movie is about channeling your feelings through art, through drawing and those drawings coming to life with with things being as polarized as they are right now culturally, politically if you could draw anything that would come to life what would you choose to draw?

Okay you know what's super sad is I was just asked this question and I'm not kidding the first thing that came to my mind was a McFlurry from McDonald's. Yeah and they said they said Tony you could get one of those and I thought yeah do I want a relationship with it? Like I didn't know what I was trying to do but that was the first thing. I like a

McFlurry and I'd like to see a McFlurry come to life. In addition to a big hug that hugs the world. Yes, a big hug that hugs the world.

I was gonna say myself on a unicorn but I think a big hug that hugs the world that's a much better answer. Well here's a daunting here's I'll take it I think we could use it right now congratulations on the movie here is to a big hug that hugs the world.