Bill Hader on ‘Barry’ Episode 6’s Scrapped Storylines and Last-Minute Reshoots: ‘I Make a Lot of Mistakes!’

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“Barry,” but he also wants to be clear: the episodes you see are the product of a lot of refinement. Specifically in Season 4 Episode 6, there was an entire Sally storyline that would have (maybe) involved Jennifer Lawrence that was jettisoned and a scene that was reshot mere weeks before the series premiered.“When you’re doing this stuff, people can tell you you’re great until they’re blue in the face, but you make a lot of mistakes,” Hader told TheWrap in our episodic breakdown interview for Episode 6. “People watch the show and go, ‘Oh my God it’s so good,’ and it’s like, ‘No, I make a lot of mistakes!’ You need smart people who aren’t afraid to tell you you’ve made a mistake to be like, ‘What are you doing?’”Initially, Sally (Sarah Goldberg) was going to have a daydream that she flew to LA, made up with Natalie (D’Arcy Carden) and ran into Jennifer Lawrence who was supposed to play Sally in the Barry Berkman movie.

In that run-in, Lawrence would have told Sally that she should play herself in the movie, and then Sally would wake up.“My problem with that was it was similar to Cousineau’s journey.

So while we were in the prep for Episodes 1 and 2, Liz Sarnoff and Duffy Boudreau and I had a meeting of what is Sally’s story in Episode 6?” Hader said. “We kept going back and forth and then, kind of like Episode 5, I was like, ‘Let me just try something’ and I wrote that sequence with her and the guy and the truck and everything.