Tony Hale is known for playing pushovers. In Arrested Development, the beloved comedy series that satirizes a wealthy, out-of-touch family, he was Buster Bluth, the bumbling, childlike youngest brother. After that, he was Gary Walsh on Veep, the doting assistant to the scathing Vice President Selina Meyer, played Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But his latest role is something a little different: a confident, sleazy ’70s game show host in Anna Kendrick’s new movie, Woman of the Hour, which began streaming on Netflix today.
“Gary and Buster are so on the defense all the time,” Hale told Decider in a recent Zoom interview. His role in Woman of the Hour, however, “was almost like a Veep Selina Meyer—always aggressive, always making snide remarks. Playing that side, as opposed to the defensive side—it was fun to play in that playground.”
Hale’s Woman of the Hour character, Ed Burke, is loosely based on the real-life Jim Lange,
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