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Why Being a Production Assistant Was One of Bill Hader’s Most Important Jobs in Hollywood · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Funny Man, and Barry star Bill Hayder took a unique
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Speaker 2: and longer path to a successful acting, writing, and directing career,
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Speaker 2: which really took off after being cast on SNL. But
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Speaker 2: before that big break, he spent about half a decade
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Speaker 2: as a production assistant on movies, shows and commercials, and
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Speaker 2: Bill actually feels like that experience turned into a blessing
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Speaker 2: when he got to run the ship on Barry. He
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Speaker 2: tells The New Yorker. I'm really happy that I went
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Speaker 2: that route because it was nice when I have my
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Speaker 2: own set to understand what everybody did. I had or
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Speaker 2: helped with all those jobs. I know what it's like
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Speaker 2: when someone at the top is miserable, yelling and screaming.
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Speaker 2: It just makes everybody's life miserable. The crew have families
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Speaker 2: and lives. Yeah, they're being paid, but nothing's worth keeping
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Speaker 2: them up for twenty hours because you can't make up
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Speaker 2: your mind. It's stressful, but that doesn't mean you get
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Speaker 2: to take it out on people. Barry's on HBO Max Streaming.
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Speaker 1: Now that's direct from Hollywood.