IR Interview: The Cast Of “Letterkenny” [Hulu-S12] - Part III - video Dailymotion

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Actors Tyler Johnston, Andrew Herr, K. Trevor Wilson & Dylan Playfair talk to The Inside Reel about favorite moments and finding comedy through details in regards to the 12th and final season of their series “Letterkenny” on Hulu.

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00:00 [dramatic music]

00:03 ♪ ♪

00:10 - Hey, yo.

00:14 [upbeat music]

00:15 - [laughs]

00:18 - Anything can happen.

00:20 - Maybe it's time for a change.

00:21 I just, like, don't really know if I want to go back.

00:24 - It's about to get stank in here.

00:26 ♪ ♪

00:28 - We would like to cordially invite you

00:31 in the spirit of family.

00:33 - Take about 20% off of there, bud.

00:35 - Spirit of friendship. - More.

00:37 - Fellowship. - More.

00:38 - Camaraderie.

00:39 all: No, thank you.

00:41 - We've talked. I mean, I think, Tyler,

00:43 we always talk with you and Ro,

00:45 we're like, "Sex, sex, sex,"

00:47 like, coming up from behind the bar,

00:49 but there's probably some moments that jump out

00:52 where you were like, "Man, this is hitting on all cylinders.

00:55 I know that this is what, you know, this character is."

00:58 Could you talk about maybe a moment that stood out

01:00 for each of you or a certain scene

01:02 where that felt that way for you?

01:05 - Yeah, I think Stuart, like everybody else,

01:08 just wants to be loved and wants to be included,

01:10 and a big arc for me that was very enjoyable

01:12 was that season where he had a relationship with Gay

01:15 and found love for a couple episodes

01:18 and then found heartbreak, right?

01:19 So it really humanized Stuart in a way

01:21 that we hadn't really had a chance to do

01:23 up until that point.

01:25 And I think, you know, Stuart just wants to be loved

01:28 and wants to be included,

01:30 and this final episode kind of gave him

01:32 an opportunity to do that.

01:34 - I think, just actually thinking about it,

01:36 even the season where we become coaches

01:39 of the Shamrockettes,

01:42 you know, I think Riley and Jonesy,

01:44 they're just always trying to keep the dream alive,

01:47 whether that's, like, with girls or hockey or gymming.

01:52 Very simple guys.

01:54 (laughs)

01:55 But I think, yeah, and I think that,

02:00 even that's the last scene where we're offering

02:03 our respect to Wayne and Daryl,

02:06 and they just throw it in our faces.

02:07 It's like Riley and Jonesy are the same.

02:09 They just kind of, I think at the end of the day,

02:11 they just want to, like, be respected,

02:13 whether they get that or not.

02:15 Usually not, but, you know,

02:17 we still got the girl in the end,

02:18 but I think that over the years,

02:20 that was one of my favorite seasons,

02:22 was when we, even though, you know,

02:24 it wasn't nothing against girls,

02:26 but we were trying to, like,

02:28 want to be, you know, top tier athletes,

02:30 you know, we resolve ourselves to coaching,

02:32 'cause we're just addicted to winning, you know?

02:34 Wanted to win one way or another.

02:36 - Through the use of AI found on the--

02:37 - Darkwing.

02:38 - Rold and I were able to determine

02:40 the two essential elements necessary

02:42 in constructing a hit country music song.

02:45 (fart noise)

02:47 The two essential elements necessary

02:49 in constructing a hit country music song

02:51 are as follows.

02:52 Number one, a unique hook,

02:54 which must also be used as the title of the song.

02:57 - Thank God's name's the country's, boys.

02:59 - Dig deeper. - Five o'clock somewhere's?

03:01 - Deeper. - Save a horse, ride a cowboy.

03:03 (horse neighs)

03:04 (horse snorts)

03:05 - Giddy up!

03:06 And that particular title teaches us

03:08 a valuable lesson in the process.

03:10 Just because it's unique does not mean it can't be dumb.

03:14 - Dumb is almost preferable in a unique hook

03:16 for a hit country song.

03:18 - I'm looking for a good Western.

03:19 - We're looking for contagious dialogue here, people.

03:21 - Quotables!

03:22 - She thinks my tractor's sexy?

03:24 - Dumber.

03:25 - No shirt, no shoes, no problem?

03:26 - Dumber.

03:27 - I've got it.

03:28 Beer for my horses.

03:30 - Bingo!

03:31 - You know, Leonard, can you even,

03:32 especially in this season, the final season,

03:34 it's very existential.

03:36 You know, it's about who we are,

03:37 who we wanna be, but who we like,

03:40 what we like about ourselves.

03:42 I mean, you can see it with you, Katie,

03:44 obviously, you know, Wayne, you know, Derry for sure.

03:47 But when you talk about sort of that

03:48 and how that interrelates, always,

03:50 it's great to those opening moments that you guys do,

03:53 which are almost like Shakespearean

03:55 in their pentameter, you know?

03:58 - You know, the pacing of the show

04:00 has always been one of the most important things to it,

04:02 and I'm glad that, I mean,

04:05 the final season was a very different season

04:08 in tone and style.

04:10 We very rarely do a storyline

04:14 that goes through every episode,

04:17 you know, through all six episodes.

04:19 I think maybe only once or twice before

04:21 have we had a storyline that ran like that.

04:24 So it was definitely a very different thing,

04:27 and, you know, not working all together all the time

04:32 was very strange, and I definitely saw Nathan the least

04:35 shooting that last season, then of all the seasons.

04:39 But I was very happy that we still hit

04:43 all of the regular moments, you know?

04:45 We still had our porch conversation

04:48 where half of our mouths were cut off by the banister.

04:51 You know, we still had our airplane hanger chats.

04:55 We still had all the things you were going to expect

04:59 mixed in with it, because it would have felt strange

05:03 if we didn't do it one last time.

05:05 - Darts? I was gonna say that, too.

05:07 - That's mostly just smoking darts.

05:08 - But it needs to be more catchy, more crafty, more clever.

05:12 - It needs to be more poetic.

05:15 - How about "Smoking darts in the rain"?

05:18 - No, you can't do that.

05:19 - Well, then your dart would go out.

05:22 - Okay, so you're smoking darts when it's dry.

05:24 - Well, they have to be dry to smoke 'em.

05:26 - Dry darts, blue sky darts.

05:28 - Best darts are ones that's warm.

05:30 - Hot darts.

05:31 - Well, we're not trying to f--- darts, McMurray.

05:33 - Well, I'd try anything once.

05:34 - Smoking in the summer.

05:35 - Smoking summer darts.

05:36 - Smoking in the sun.

05:37 - Darts when it's sunny, it's...

05:39 [sighs]

05:42 Sun darts.

05:44 - As far as Riley's concerned,

05:46 I think a dangerous area to get into in your cast

05:49 is trying to fit the vision of a director

05:53 to the point where you're uncertain

05:55 if what you're doing works.

05:57 And that level of, like, "I hope it's working,"

06:00 that, I think, can throw off a performance entirely.

06:03 With Letter Kenny having been a part of the YouTube series

06:07 and the only character description was "hockey player,"

06:10 and Andrew and I showed up and did this two-minute skit,

06:13 and I just thought of the most ridiculous hockey players

06:16 that I had been around in my, you know,

06:19 20 years of being around them,

06:21 amalgamated these guys together

06:23 and made this version of what I think

06:25 a funny hockey player would be,

06:28 and I'd never felt freedom in a character like that,

06:31 so I never on set was wondering

06:34 if what I'm doing is gonna fit Jacob or Jared's vision.

06:37 And I think that was a really good lesson

06:40 moving forward with not just Riley,

06:42 but any other character you play.

06:43 It's like, commit to it entirely,

06:45 and if you get an adjustment,

06:47 get it after you're done rolling,

06:49 but don't second-guess yourself

06:52 until the scene's done.

06:53 Like, commit, and commit all the way 100%,

06:57 and you see everyone in Letter Kenny do that.

06:59 They commit all the way 100%.

07:02 90% of the time it works,

07:04 and if it doesn't, the director will tell you.

07:06 He'll put you on a--

07:07 if you are not seeing something that they do see,

07:10 you have to trust the process

07:12 that they'll help set your course right,

07:15 and that, for me, was a really cool learning experience,

07:18 just, like, trusting,

07:19 "Hey, I think this is funny. Good chance they will, too,

07:22 and if they don't, they'll tell me,"

07:24 and there was no self-editing with this character,

07:27 and for 12 seasons, that, I think,

07:30 built a lot of confidence for me personally.

07:33 - Why'd you say "mmm"? - Just saying.

07:35 - You can't say "mmm." - Just feeling a bit stuck.

07:37 - Don't get stuck. - You're stuck.

07:39 - Like, it's the whole town with that phrase.

07:41 Don't you just all read it on the back of a box of sugar cereal?

07:44 Maybe I am stuck.

07:45 - But the toughest guy in Letter Kenny

07:47 rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn't he?

07:49 - You are exactly where you belong.

07:51 [dramatic music]

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