TechCheck+ Henry Winkler of HBO's 'Barry' 5/26/23

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla is joined by Emmy-award winning legend Henry Winkler to break down his final performance as acting teacher Gene Cousineau on HBO’s “Barry” as the series comes to a close. They discuss Henry’s sources of inspiration while playing the role of Gene, why he says writers are the "beating heart" of every project he’s worked on and how he maintains his “cool” nearly 50 years since his debut as The Fonz on “Happy Days.”

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0:00.0	The Great Henry Winkler of Barry currently airing on HBO.
0:05.4	Henry, it's great to have you.
0:06.9	Thanks so much for making this happen.
0:08.3	Thank you. I'm happy to be here.
0:10.4	I'll tell you, you know, I've been a fan of Barry since the very first episode and every season you
0:16.4	Know to expect the unexpected but I'm not sure anything can prep you for season four
0:28.2	No, I you know know what I have to say that this is out of the mind of Bill Hader and I don't think you ever want to go in there alone.
0:33.0	He is really, it's remarkable.
0:36.0	People talk about him obviously for years as a comedian, as an impressionist,
0:40.0	but he's now being talked about as an auteur because of what he's able to bring here. Here's the thing.
0:46.6	He that that bit on s and l was a diversion. It was like a sidebar. He wanted to be a director. He came to
0:57.5	Hollywood to be a director and all of a sudden he was on Saturday night live and now he's doing his dream.
1:07.0	So you think there's going to be more things of this scale from him in the future?
1:12.0	Oh my gosh. this scale from him in the future.
1:18.0	Oh my gosh, his mind is like Mount Vesuvius.
1:30.0	I am one of the great moments of my life is that I met Alec Berg and Bill Hader and was invited to be part of this ensemble. Tell me of the story really quick about how that almost didn't happen because you did have some other projects that potentially could have complicated your casting.
1:41.0	Years ago, my daughter, her husband, Rob, who is an incredible builder, they were fixing their house.
1:49.4	They had a baby who was one.
1:52.1	His name was one. His name was Ace, our grandson and they lived with us for a year, year and a half. It was divine. As a matter of fact, I tried to make a contract with the parents would go and live in their new house and come visit Ace, but it didn't.
2:13.4	So my son, my youngest son, who was a director, writer, producer, Max, and Rob, my son-law,
2:21.8	created a show called The Winklers and we did the pilot for ABC about all of us
2:29.0	living together and what ensued. It got right to the wire. It didn't go and I think if that was on the
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