Actors Tyler Johnston, Andrew Herr, K. Trevor Wilson & Dylan Playfair talk to The Inside Reel about favorite moments and finding comedy through details in regards to the 12th and final season of their series “Letterkenny” on Hulu.
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00:00 [dramatic music]
00:03 ♪ ♪
00:10 - Hey, yo.
00:14 [upbeat music]
00:15 - [laughs]
00:18 - Anything can happen.
00:20 - Maybe it's time for a change.
00:21 I just, like, don't really know if I want to go back.
00:24 - It's about to get stank in here.
00:26 ♪ ♪
00:28 - We would like to cordially invite you
00:31 in the spirit of family.
00:33 - Take about 20% off of there, bud.
00:35 - Spirit of friendship. - More.
00:37 - Fellowship. - More.
00:38 - Camaraderie.
00:39 all: No, thank you.
00:41 - We've talked. I mean, I think, Tyler,
00:43 we always talk with you and Ro,
00:45 we're like, "Sex, sex, sex,"
00:47 like, coming up from behind the bar,
00:49 but there's probably some moments that jump out
00:52 where you were like, "Man, this is hitting on all cylinders.
00:55 I know that this is what, you know, this character is."
00:58 Could you talk about maybe a moment that stood out
01:00 for each of you or a certain scene
01:02 where that felt that way for you?
01:05 - Yeah, I think Stuart, like everybody else,
01:08 just wants to be loved and wants to be included,
01:10 and a big arc for me that was very enjoyable
01:12 was that season where he had a relationship with Gay
01:15 and found love for a couple episodes
01:18 and then found heartbreak, right?
01:19 So it really humanized Stuart in a way
01:21 that we hadn't really had a chance to do
01:23 up until that point.
01:25 And I think, you know, Stuart just wants to be loved
01:28 and wants to be included,
01:30 and this final episode kind of gave him
01:32 an opportunity to do that.
01:34 - I think, just actually thinking about it,
01:36 even the season where we become coaches
01:39 of the Shamrockettes,
01:42 you know, I think Riley and Jonesy,
01:44 they're just always trying to keep the dream alive,
01:47 whether that's, like, with girls or hockey or gymming.
01:52 Very simple guys.
01:54 (laughs)
01:55 But I think, yeah, and I think that,
02:00 even that's the last scene where we're offering
02:03 our respect to Wayne and Daryl,
02:06 and they just throw it in our faces.
02:07 It's like Riley and Jonesy are the same.
02:09 They just kind of, I think at the end of the day,
02:11 they just want to, like, be respected,
02:13 whether they get that or not.
02:15 Usually not, but, you know,
02:17 we still got the girl in the end,
02:18 but I think that over the years,
02:20 that was one of my favorite seasons,
02:22 was when we, even though, you know,
02:24 it wasn't nothing against girls,
02:26 but we were trying to, like,
02:28 want to be, you know, top tier athletes,
02:30 you know, we resolve ourselves to coaching,
02:32 'cause we're just addicted to winning, you know?
02:34 Wanted to win one way or another.
02:36 - Through the use of AI found on the--
02:37 - Darkwing.
02:38 - Rold and I were able to determine
02:40 the two essential elements necessary
02:42 in constructing a hit country music song.
02:45 (fart noise)
02:47 The two essential elements necessary
02:49 in constructing a hit country music song
02:51 are as follows.
02:52 Number one, a unique hook,
02:54 which must also be used as the title of the song.
02:57 - Thank God's name's the country's, boys.
02:59 - Dig deeper. - Five o'clock somewhere's?
03:01 - Deeper. - Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
03:03 (horse neighs)
03:04 (horse snorts)
03:05 - Giddy up!
03:06 And that particular title teaches us
03:08 a valuable lesson in the process.
03:10 Just because it's unique does not mean it can't be dumb.
03:14 - Dumb is almost preferable in a unique hook
03:16 for a hit country song.
03:18 - I'm looking for a good Western.
03:19 - We're looking for contagious dialogue here, people.
03:21 - Quotables!
03:22 - She thinks my tractor's sexy?
03:24 - Dumber.
03:25 - No shirt, no shoes, no problem?
03:26 - Dumber.
03:27 - I've got it.
03:28 Beer for my horses.
03:30 - Bingo!
03:31 - You know, Leonard, can you even,
03:32 especially in this season, the final season,
03:34 it's very existential.
03:36 You know, it's about who we are,
03:37 who we wanna be, but who we like,
03:40 what we like about ourselves.
03:42 I mean, you can see it with you, Katie,
03:44 obviously, you know, Wayne, you know, Derry for sure.
03:47 But when you talk about sort of that
03:48 and how that interrelates, always,
03:50 it's great to those opening moments that you guys do,
03:53 which are almost like Shakespearean
03:55 in their pentameter, you know?
03:58 - You know, the pacing of the show
04:00 has always been one of the most important things to it,
04:02 and I'm glad that, I mean,
04:05 the final season was a very different season
04:08 in tone and style.
04:10 We very rarely do a storyline
04:14 that goes through every episode,
04:17 you know, through all six episodes.
04:19 I think maybe only once or twice before
04:21 have we had a storyline that ran like that.
04:24 So it was definitely a very different thing,
04:27 and, you know, not working all together all the time
04:32 was very strange, and I definitely saw Nathan the least
04:35 shooting that last season, then of all the seasons.
04:39 But I was very happy that we still hit
04:43 all of the regular moments, you know?
04:45 We still had our porch conversation
04:48 where half of our mouths were cut off by the banister.
04:51 You know, we still had our airplane hanger chats.
04:55 We still had all the things you were going to expect
04:59 mixed in with it, because it would have felt strange
05:03 if we didn't do it one last time.
05:05 - Darts? I was gonna say that, too.
05:07 - That's mostly just smoking darts.
05:08 - But it needs to be more catchy, more crafty, more clever.
05:12 - It needs to be more poetic.
05:15 - How about "Smoking darts in the rain"?
05:18 - No, you can't do that.
05:19 - Well, then your dart would go out.
05:22 - Okay, so you're smoking darts when it's dry.
05:24 - Well, they have to be dry to smoke 'em.
05:26 - Dry darts, blue sky darts.
05:28 - Best darts are ones that's warm.
05:30 - Hot darts.
05:31 - Well, we're not trying to f--- darts, McMurray.
05:33 - Well, I'd try anything once.
05:34 - Smoking in the summer.
05:35 - Smoking summer darts.
05:36 - Smoking in the sun.
05:37 - Darts when it's sunny, it's...
05:39 [sighs]
05:42 Sun darts.
05:44 - As far as Riley's concerned,
05:46 I think a dangerous area to get into in your cast
05:49 is trying to fit the vision of a director
05:53 to the point where you're uncertain
05:55 if what you're doing works.
05:57 And that level of, like, "I hope it's working,"
06:00 that, I think, can throw off a performance entirely.
06:03 With Letter Kenny having been a part of the YouTube series
06:07 and the only character description was "hockey player,"
06:10 and Andrew and I showed up and did this two-minute skit,
06:13 and I just thought of the most ridiculous hockey players
06:16 that I had been around in my, you know,
06:19 20 years of being around them,
06:21 amalgamated these guys together
06:23 and made this version of what I think
06:25 a funny hockey player would be,
06:28 and I'd never felt freedom in a character like that,
06:31 so I never on set was wondering
06:34 if what I'm doing is gonna fit Jacob or Jared's vision.
06:37 And I think that was a really good lesson
06:40 moving forward with not just Riley,
06:42 but any other character you play.
06:43 It's like, commit to it entirely,
06:45 and if you get an adjustment,
06:47 get it after you're done rolling,
06:49 but don't second-guess yourself
06:52 until the scene's done.
06:53 Like, commit, and commit all the way 100%,
06:57 and you see everyone in Letter Kenny do that.
06:59 They commit all the way 100%.
07:02 90% of the time it works,
07:04 and if it doesn't, the director will tell you.
07:06 He'll put you on a--
07:07 if you are not seeing something that they do see,
07:10 you have to trust the process
07:12 that they'll help set your course right,
07:15 and that, for me, was a really cool learning experience,
07:18 just, like, trusting,
07:19 "Hey, I think this is funny. Good chance they will, too,
07:22 and if they don't, they'll tell me,"
07:24 and there was no self-editing with this character,
07:27 and for 12 seasons, that, I think,
07:30 built a lot of confidence for me personally.
07:33 - Why'd you say "mmm"? - Just saying.
07:35 - You can't say "mmm." - Just feeling a bit stuck.
07:37 - Don't get stuck. - You're stuck.
07:39 - Like, it's the whole town with that phrase.
07:41 Don't you just all read it on the back of a box of sugar cereal?
07:44 Maybe I am stuck.
07:45 - But the toughest guy in Letter Kenny
07:47 rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn't he?
07:49 - You are exactly where you belong.
07:51 [dramatic music]
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