I'm not the producer, I'm not the director. This is so fun, I get to do such horrible things and not be held accountable for it. This is just absolutely awful.’ And also the feeling of like, ‘My god, it feels so good. And they probably don't understand what I'm saying, but this is awful. And looking out at a sea of first graders, basically telling them how to get laid, it was just like, ‘Oh my god, these poor kids. I'm a dad now, and at the time I was not. “I'd never gotten to do something so irreverent, and the fun thing about improv and also just getting encouraged to be so vile is that there's a bit of danger involved. The kids are in the room, and I was saying all this terrible stuff.” Like, my guitar-playing is for seduction and I was teaching the kids how to get themselves laid, and these chords would really drop some panties. ![]() ![]() “My mind went blank, and I came to when they yelled ‘Cut!’ and it was something about teaching the kids how I play guitar. “I just sort of improv-ed this scene,” he says. Scott goes old-school with his pick, choosing a scene from season 1’s “Baseball,” when Selina's team visits the elementary school and Dan is playing guitar in front of the children, giving the world’s most inappropriate music lesson. Moments in Veep where that doesn't happen and then it goes back to more of the same are so devastating and it creates such a complicated emotional experience.” So much about what's funny about comedy in general but specifically Veep is that characters will always do what you expect them to do, and they'll do that over and over again. And also an almost triumphant moment for Gary that you don't otherwise see. “I just think it's such an interesting dimension to their relationship, and such a human and vulnerable moment for Selina in a lot of ways. ![]() When Selina dresses down Gary for overspending on a State Dinner and tells him that he is meaningless to her, he shouts back, “I am f-ing everything to you!” And when he snaps, “Can you find somebody else who did what I did?,” she responds, “You mean on Labor Day?” the mood turns deadly serious, and he says, “I said I would never mention that, ever.” Sutherland loves the scene from season 4’s “East Wing” involving the inseparable Selina and Gary. When you look at it, you go, ‘Yeah, that should be a funny idea,’ but she just turned it into something much, much funnier than what you would imagine.” It was one of those unspoken things where she reached a level of absurdity that she often did, but this one worked particularly well. And it was difficult for me to keep quiet from not laughing because of the combination of what she was doing physically and what she was talking about. They had shown our reactions and now we were seeing actually what she was going to do, because the camera's on her. “Then, later on in the episode, she addresses a ballroom on some weighty subject - jobs for all and blah, blah, blah - and we were all watching her. “Part of the script was the fact that she began to get an eye twitch,” recalls Cole. ![]() To make matters worse, she forgets the third “R” of her platform and develops an eye twitch (though it does prove to be distracting to one of her opponents). Cole has his eye on a sequence from season 3’s “Debate,” in which Selina gets a tragic new haircut before a debate.
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