From co-creators and executive producers Bill Hader and Alec Berg, the HBO dark comedy series Barry is in its final season, with hitman turned acting student turned really emotionally and morally confused man Barry Berkman locked up in jail and facing all of his past deeds.
BILL HADER: Yeah. Actually the very, very ending of the show, in the finale, I had the idea for while we were doing Season 2. During Season 2, I turned to Alec [Berg] and said, “You know, it could be interesting, if we ended it like this.” And he said, “Oh, yeah, that’d be great.” But then, how we got there was so different than what I thought. So, it’s a little thing, but it’s the ending of the show. Everything else changed radically.
Do you think you’ll ever get to a point where you go back and watch this whole thing together, to see if it feels exactly how you had hoped? HADER: It’s Amy Gravitt at HBO, and Casey Bloys, and Aida Rodgers, one of our producers. I was just insanely, incredibly lucky to be able to do it that way and to have a place that said, “Well, what works for you?” I know for a fact, because I talked to them, but there was another producer, early on, that said, “Well, it’s gotta be a 13-episode season.” And I went, “I don’t even know what that looks like,” because I had already mapped out a season, and it came out to eight episodes.
Is that something you want to do right away? Are you actively looking to direct something this year or next year, or are you not thinking that specifically about it yet?