#gifs2019

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"I think with Eddie, it’s frozen like that. It’s like when you’ve known someone forever. [...] Or like when you get together with your siblings. You revert back, because your relationship’s been established at a certain age. There’s little moments where I tried to play that. [When The Losers Club has its first adult reunion] Richie might be in a place where he’s like, 'I don’t really care about him anymore.' And then he immediately gets smashed. He sees Eddie’s there. He’s like, 'Oh, yeah, feeling's still there — I’m going to get drunk.'" —Bill Hader.

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come see me

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sua / copycat

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“So, Finn, when they asked him, ‘Who do you want to play you in the sequel?’, because they all grow up, he said he wanted me to. I thought, ‘Oh, that’s sweet’, and my agent sent me a little clip of him saying that, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s nice.’” —BILL HADER.

“We were all always hypothesizing on who would be our older selves. We'd pitch ideas to each other, and from the beginning I was always [pitching] Bill Hader. I was just like, a super fan. It was almost like, real life and the character, of like, ‘Oh, man, I wanna be like that guy like, when I'm older.’” —FINN WOLFHARD.

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I legit can’t find my glasses...

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I like someone that checks their phone mid-panel...

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“One of the most defining images of my 2019 is walking out of a movie theater in Hollywood to see a billboard for Barry on one side of Sunset, a billboard for IT: Chapter Two on the other, and thinking of how absurdly far Bill Hader has come. The dude started the decade as the most endearing part of every Saturday Night Live sketch he appeared in—Stefon alone belongs in SNL’s Hall of Fame class—but soon got the chance to really stretch his creative muscles, first with the genius Documentary Now! on IFC and then Barry, the multi-Emmy winning dark comedy that’s emerged in just two seasons as one of the best shows in years. Sure, Hader will still show up to flatline in something like Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, because Bill Hader is still funny as hell, but that’s also why he was able to so deftly channel both comedy and tragedy in IT: Chapter Two. The man contains multitudes, and this decade saw him tap in to every single one. (Note: If you’re still on the fence, please watch [the ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now’] scene from The Skeleton Twins several dozen times and thank me later.)” —Vinnie Mancuso, Collider: The Breakout Storytellers of the Decade.

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Last year, Hader finished filming the first season of Barry, then shot It: Chapter Two, and finally began writing Barry's second season. "I think I saw my kids a total of five days all summer," he says. "It was terrible. So, I'm going— Next summer I'm taking off. And I'm going to spend every day with them. It's this weird thing where when you're in this industry, you don't have time to be with them, and it's really, really difficult. I'm getting emotional right now talking about it.”

“Congrats," Hader says later. "It's the first interview I've ever cried in." After Season 2 of Barry wraps production, Hader plans to spend the summer writing a screenplay for a film he plans to direct. Writing, he reasons, will allow him to work from home and see his girls. "They can see me all day if they want," he says. "They can really get sick of me." (Part one | Part two).

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At the end of each episode of Barry, viewers see a vanity card that reads "Hanarply," the name of Bill Hader's production company. The name is a combination of the names of his three daughters: Hannah, Harper and Hayley.

"Yeah, they made that," Hader told the Tulsa World. "I gave them paper and crayons and they gave it back to me like that." (Part one | Part two).

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Keanu Reeves + portraying Johns.

BONUS

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Q: "There's a specific scene, kind of like farther in season one of Barry [...] where you punch the glass and you kinda do this with your hands. What is your process for a scene like that?"

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I’m done with all this.

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What was it like sharing the comedic spotlight with [Bill Hader]? I felt like I was going to get a chance to learn how to do improv and sketch comedy with somebody who knew what they were doing, and I felt really hyped about that, because the truth is that we didn’t know each other well. We met at an audition for that Michael Mann movie, Public Enemies, like 12 years ago. And we got along fine, and then we had similar tastes in music and art and books and movies and TV shows. So, when we met, it was built in, we knew each other, but then it was really fun for me as a performer to learn some new skills. Because I don’t have a lot of them.

A lot of it was improvised then? Well, there was a full script. I didn’t see the movie, because I can’t watch myself. I hate watching myself in anything. I just freak out. I can’t do it. But we did improvise a lot of stuff. Bill said he thought it was about 50% improv and 50% scripted. So, we would shoot what was on the page and then we’d add something and Andy would like that. And he’d go back in and expand on that or elaborate on it. The whole puppy scene was all improv.

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I don't know if I'm ready. You know what I'm really scared of? Some kid's gonna wake up, look at me, and say, "You're not Santa."

NOELLE (2019), dir. Marc Lawrence.

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