‘Barry’ Star Henry Winkler Thinks His Character Could ‘Definitely’ Commit Murder
25.04.2022 - 05:53
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Wilson Chapman editorSPOILER ALERT:Do not read if you haven’t watched “Forgiving Jeff,” the Season 3 premiere of “Barry,” now streaming on HBO Max.Nobody is more critical of Gene Cousineau than the actor portraying him. Since 2018, Henry Winkler has been playing the acting coach on Alec Berg and Bill Hader’s HBO crime dramedy “Barry.” And while the role has provided Winkler some of the best reviews of his career, along with an Emmy for the show’s debut season, the TV icon known for playing the Fonz on “Happy Days” doesn’t mince words when describing Cousineau, referring to him as “selfish,” “self-centered” and with “no loving ability.”When Season 3 of “Barry” begins, Cousineau seems to have changed, in ways both good and bad.
Following the events of Season 2, he’s mended the rift between himself and his long-estranged son Leo (Andrew Leeds) and his grandson, who now both live with him. But he’s also emotionally distraught after his discovery at the end of Season 2 that his acting student and mentee Barry (Hader) killed his beloved girlfriend, detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome).
After the police ignore his report, Cousineau confronts Barry at the climax of the episode, intending to force him to confess his crime to the cops. But the confrontation quickly falls apart, and Cousineau winds up with a gun pointed at him by Barry, begging for his life.
Just when things seem grim for Cousineau, he manages to stave off his death by swearing he can forgive Barry if he “Fucking earns it” — a statement that Winkler says Cousineau needs to be applying to his own life.“You have to earn it,” Winkler says. “That is a phrase right in that very first scene and when he has me by the tree.
I’m telling him he has to earn it. And what I
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