Henry Winkler, who plays renowned former acting teacher Gene Cousineau on the hitHBOshowBarry, made a startling admission when he said he is on the edge of his seat watching the show’s final episodes because he doesn’t know what happens to any of the characters besides Cousineau.
Winkler, who played Cousineau from theHBOshow’s very beginning and later became a father figure to Barry Berkman until finding out the truth about what Berkman had done to the love of his life, admitted that not knowing about the fate of the other characters has made him anxious while watching the show’s last episodes. While he may know what happens to Cousineau, he has no prior knowledge of what happens to anyone else until the show reveals it.
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Winker made his admission in an interview withMSNBC. “It gets so twisted that I myself am on the edge of my seat every week. Because, remember, I don’t see the other stories. I’m only in my podwith the great Bill Hader,” Winkler said. He also added his approach to watchingBarry’s last season while praising Hader. “It gets so dark this year, and it is so wonderful (that) I bought a miners hat so I could switch it on to see where are we going. Bill Hader is something. He is something.”
The last time the audience saw Cousineau, he hid at his cabin from Barry upon the revelation that Berkman had escaped prison. Due to his paranoia, Gene shot someone he believed to be Berkman coming through the door, screaming “F*** you!” before running away when it sadly turned out to be his son. The show implied Cousineau then left the cabin to go God knows where. Beforehand, Cousineau not only sold Barry out to law enforcement, but he also wanted to turnhis personal story with Barryinto a front-page tell-all headliner, much to the dismay of Berkman and the father of Cousineau’s murdered girlfriend, Jim Moss. Cousineau remains alive, but given that the show just killed off one of its mainstays in its latest episode, it’s clear that no one is safe.
The show also did an unexpected time-jump at the end of the fourth episode of its fourth season, implying that Berkman and his girlfriend Sally are married with a son in an undisclosed location. It remains to be seen if they are happy with their new lives, or if it’s even real, or another one of Barry’s hopeless romantic fantasies that audiences saw throughout season 1. The show will be sure to display what happens next to Cousineau among the others, or perhaps, if his fate had been sealed before said time-jump.
It’s also an interesting choice by Hader to keep Winkler in the dark regarding the fate of everyone else. That may have been a potential spoiler that no one else will interact with Cousineauin the last four episodes ofBarryseason 4outside of Berkman, but that remains to be seen. It’s also smart in case fans demand spoilers out of Winkler, to which he’ll have a legitimate excuse for withholding information. It also adds to the ambiguity of what comes next inBarry.
Barrywill air its final episodes on HBO and HBO Max on Sundays.
