'Letterkenny' S10 Interviews with Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett, K. Trevor Wilson & More
All of the hicks, skids and hockey players of Hulu's “Letterkenny” are here to discuss the 10th Season of the fan-favorite show. Michelle Mylett, Nathan Dales, Jacob Tierney, K. Trevor Wilson, Lisa Codrington, Tyler Johnston, Evan Stern, Melanie Scrofano, Dylan Playfair and Andrew Herr reveal their favorite bloopers, how much of the show is scripted, what they know about the Shoresy spinoff and more to CinemaBlend’s Cody Beck.
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00:00 Speaking of Jared, this is my second letter Kenny Junket.
00:03 I've never met the guy.
00:04 What's he like?
00:05 What's it like working with him?
00:07 - He told us to tell you that it's personal
00:09 and he just doesn't want to talk to you.
00:12 - You know, two things for damn sure.
00:14 That's life is a highway and Twitter is a cult.
00:16 (upbeat music)
00:19 - So he's literally talking to everybody else.
00:29 I don't know how-
00:30 - He won't return my texts.
00:32 - I don't know why you're talking about his sister
00:36 like that.
00:36 That's just what I heard.
00:38 - Not at liberty to speak on this.
00:40 - Yeah, sorry.
00:41 We can't talk about this.
00:43 Only because it's you, Cody.
00:44 - I know.
00:45 (laughing)
00:48 - Sorry, I'm just gonna take this.
00:49 It's Jared.
00:49 Just give me a second.
00:50 Hey, no, I'm talking to him right now.
00:52 (laughing)
00:53 I told him, I told him you think he's a dick.
00:54 - Disney has canceled me.
00:56 Oh man.
00:57 (laughing)
00:59 - He's got a lot of similarities to his character, actually.
01:03 He's very, he's incredibly polite.
01:07 He's very kind.
01:08 He's really like a true team leader to all of us.
01:13 And yeah, and he loves to giggle.
01:16 That's something that I will say
01:18 'cause Wayne doesn't really giggle that much,
01:20 but Jared is like a big giggler.
01:22 He's like always laughing and it's kind of fun.
01:26 Anytime, like if I post an Instagram or something
01:29 and he's in there smiling, people are always like shocked.
01:32 They're like, I've never seen this face before.
01:35 So yeah, but he's great.
01:36 (laughing)
01:38 - Why don't you guys go play some Buckhunter?
01:40 - I'll race you over to the Buckhunter machine.
01:43 - Yeah, Jared's great.
01:44 He's a hardworking SOB, man.
01:47 He kills it.
01:48 He's just, he works his ass off
01:51 and it's great fun to fucking have a joke with
01:55 and stuff like that.
01:56 It's amazing, yeah.
01:57 So it's a great, great working environment with him.
01:59 And yeah, he would be, I think the guy
02:01 that you think that he is,
02:02 I think he probably is that guy.
02:05 You know, he's funny, he's polite,
02:07 he's good with everybody.
02:08 And yeah, he loves a good joke.
02:10 And I think that's kind of apparent
02:12 from the show that he wrote
02:13 and also from the new one and stuff like that.
02:16 So yeah, he loves a joke.
02:17 Good man to have around for sure.
02:19 - Also loves a dog, loves a dog.
02:21 - Hey, why are crabs always so tired?
02:26 - It's 'cause they only sleep in snatches.
02:29 - He's a ghost. - Yeah, yeah.
02:31 - He's a tyrant.
02:31 - He's a wizard of Oz actually.
02:33 We've never met him either, so.
02:35 - No, he's like, he's exactly who you think he is,
02:38 which is why you'll never see him on a junket
02:40 'cause he's so humble and so low key
02:42 that you like can't really track him down.
02:44 'Cause he's like, "Oh, I don't really wanna do that.
02:45 Like, I don't think I should do it.
02:46 Like, you guys should do it.
02:47 You guys should do it."
02:48 - What am I supposed to talk about?
02:49 - What am I gonna say?
02:50 Who wants to hear me talk?
02:52 I mean, it's his baby and he works hard for it.
02:55 But Jared Kiso, I always considered myself a nice guy
02:59 and Kiso makes me feel like an awful pig monster.
03:02 So he's a gem of a human being.
03:05 He's private and he's quiet,
03:06 but he's also one of the sweetest guys
03:09 you'll ever have the joy of meeting.
03:10 He's a good dude.
03:11 (horn honking)
03:14 - Were there any scenes in particular,
03:18 whether it was throughout the show or this latest season
03:20 that you remember being difficult to get through
03:23 without laughing?
03:24 I think about, you know, the scene
03:25 where you're on the front porch
03:27 talking about the astronauts, stuff like that.
03:28 I've seen all the bloopers and outtakes.
03:30 Was there anything recently that sticks to mind
03:32 that was really, really hard to get through
03:34 without breaking character?
03:35 - For me, I think the Mother Hutchins skit.
03:42 - Okay.
03:43 - Use no Mother Hutchins.
03:44 - Of course, mother of 17, great gal.
03:47 - I seen Mother Hutchins today and she was whistling
03:49 and there's no way that she could have been whistling.
03:52 - That was like very, very much difficult.
03:57 I couldn't look at Nate at all.
04:00 For me, that was a tough one to get through.
04:03 - Why couldn't she's have been whistling?
04:05 - On account of she was eating an ice cream cone?
04:09 - There's no possible way you can whistle
04:10 when you're eating an ice cream cone.
04:12 - Yeah, yeah, big time.
04:13 So from this season specifically,
04:15 the prostate episodes,
04:18 I think it's episode four if I'm not mistaken.
04:20 So Jared and I have a good conversation.
04:24 Wayne and Daryl have a conversation
04:25 in front of the produce stand about all things prostate.
04:30 - Well, have you ever had another man
04:32 spread his butt cheeks for you?
04:34 - Well, no.
04:39 - It's hard anytime I just have a scene with Jared,
04:41 which is very rare because it's an ensemble,
04:44 everything, right?
04:45 And so whenever I put a scene with Jared,
04:47 it's very difficult to look at him whenever,
04:49 and especially talking about prostate and this and that,
04:51 and why did you leave the doctor's office?
04:54 And how did, you know, all that kind of stuff.
04:55 Yeah, that one was difficult.
04:56 And it was one of the last days of shooting as well.
04:59 So we're all kind of tired and so we're giggly anyways,
05:01 but that one was super fun.
05:02 And so yeah, the prostate episode was not easy.
05:05 And specifically in front of the produce stand,
05:07 just Jared and I yacking back and forth was super fun
05:11 and fucking blew a lot of takes on that one for sure.
05:14 I said I never had to, it was so bad in my entire life.
05:17 - Right then and there.
05:18 - I would say the people that are the hardest, it's,
05:21 well, Jonathan Torrance,
05:23 the dicks are very hard to work with.
05:25 Lisa doesn't break,
05:27 which can make her very hard to work with.
05:29 The whole cast is very hard to work with.
05:31 I don't, I mean, I don't particularly like any of them,
05:34 but I would say that, yeah, Jonathan's really hard.
05:39 Jon and Starr are tough.
05:41 And I mean, Tyler and Evan are tough as well.
05:44 The skids are particularly particular.
05:48 They'll just start dancing at you
05:50 and it can be very distracting.
05:51 - This title. - Is it "Die Hard"?
05:54 - 'Tis.
05:54 - For me, it's Lisa, it's Gaylor.
05:58 She goes from the nicest, most preserved individual
06:02 to being a hip thrusting, you know,
06:07 you can fill in the rest, but I'd say Lisa for me,
06:10 she's a villain. - She has something else
06:11 that she gets to say.
06:12 - I work with Lisa back in that, I think Lisa,
06:15 she's just so different in real life to what,
06:18 she's so just grounded and like, she's just so intelligent.
06:23 - And cool.
06:24 - Yeah, you have these just really interesting conversations
06:28 and then she goes on set and you're like, what's this?
06:31 Who is this? - She gets possessed.
06:33 - Yes. - Yeah.
06:35 - On the house.
06:39 - Impressive. - Well, all right.
06:41 (audience applauding)
06:44 - I'm curious, with all the hockey
06:45 that you guys play on the show
06:47 and then all the fights and brawls and everything,
06:50 have you guys ever had any like accidental injuries,
06:52 close calls, broken set pieces, any fun stories like that?
06:56 - Broken set, I know Hersey smashed a prop coffee mug
07:04 on a wonderful stunt man's head that-
07:07 - Yeah, that was probably the most fun I've ever had.
07:10 (laughing)
07:13 I mean, sorry to cut you off, Dylan.
07:16 I think we actually, I was saying this recently,
07:20 surprisingly, our show has had almost no injuries
07:25 during the filming of any fight scenes
07:27 or anything like that.
07:28 We have a great stunt coordinator, Dan Skeen,
07:30 who is a professional and makes things fun.
07:33 And I mean, Dylan and I had a few scrapes
07:35 from fighting a wall this season, but-
07:38 - We saw that.
07:39 - Yeah, but I think other than that, no,
07:41 we've been pretty fortunate
07:43 that nothing serious has happened.
07:46 - Yeah, that's true.
07:46 - Did you guys get to smash that wall?
07:48 Just like, was that just a one and done kind of thing?
07:50 Or did you get to do it multiple times?
07:52 - I don't know. - Either of those walls.
07:53 - No, we had a few.
07:54 - There was multiples, actually.
07:57 I'll pump Hersey's tire for him here.
07:59 We were doing a practice run through
08:02 and Jacob, our director, goes,
08:05 yeah, so the wall scored,
08:06 like, you have to hit it pretty hard,
08:08 but like, you know, it will give.
08:11 And Hersey goes, well, like, how hard should I hit it?
08:14 He's like, hit it as hard as you can.
08:17 And I swear to God, this kid's got a bomb on him
08:20 'cause he cocked back and the noise that it made
08:23 when he put his hand, not just his hand,
08:25 up to his shoulder through the drywall,
08:28 whap, everyone in the set was like, what exploded?
08:32 He's like, okay, so like half as hard as that?
08:35 - Half.
08:35 (laughs)
08:36 - Yeah, I wouldn't have wanted to fight Hersey
08:38 when he played Junior, that's for sure.
08:40 (laughs)
08:41 - Oh my God, no!
08:42 - Have you ever seen such primitive emotion?
08:44 - Primal.
08:45 - I think it's called toxic masculinity.
08:47 - Ooh.
08:48 (laughs)
08:49 - I'm curious, how much of the show is fully scripted
08:51 versus how much do you let the actors, you know,
08:54 improv and riff off something happens?
08:56 How does that work on set?
08:58 - You know, there's so much dialogue in this show.
09:00 There's nowhere near as much improv
09:01 as people think it is.
09:02 It's largely scripted dialogue,
09:04 and it's also, the scripts are so rhythmic
09:08 and the pace is so specific that improv will happen.
09:10 Of course, it's a comedy, it happens,
09:12 but it doesn't happen very often.
09:14 - It's all there.
09:15 It's all there on the page,
09:17 and we're given the freedom to make it our own.
09:20 You know, whether that's like, hey,
09:22 I think my character would say it more like this,
09:24 or, you know, every once in a while,
09:26 you just come up with a cheeky line
09:29 and you throw it in there.
09:30 But the nice thing is we have the freedom to collaborate.
09:33 It's all there on the page,
09:34 but if we come up with an idea,
09:36 you know, Jared and Jacob are always open to listen.
09:39 Sometimes this seems organically changed
09:42 through that collaboration,
09:43 but it's all there on the page to begin with.
09:47 - And sometimes, you know,
09:48 Jared and Jacob will throw something out,
09:49 like, oh, why don't you say this?
09:51 Or, you know what I mean?
09:52 There'll be like an addition, a last minute addition,
09:54 but yeah, it's pretty much all there.
09:57 - I mean, it's heavily scripted.
09:58 The fact that we, like Tyler and I,
09:59 get together the night before and run it 400 times,
10:03 I think can tell you how tight it is.
10:05 But then the improv comes at either the beginning
10:08 or the end of a scene for a bit.
10:10 Like Jacob won't cut a scene
10:12 until he's seen you suffer enough.
10:14 So he'll just let it run
10:15 and then you'll be forced to improvise at the end.
10:18 That's generally what happens.
10:19 - Also, if Evan and I, like,
10:21 when we rehearse the 400 times,
10:23 if we think of an idea or something
10:24 that we want to bring to the day,
10:26 oftentimes we'll chuck that in on our first take,
10:28 not during the rehearsal,
10:29 just in case Jacob yells at us to change it.
10:33 - And he will.
10:34 - We'll make it on camera.
10:35 - He will yell at us.
10:36 - It's very scripted,
10:37 but we try to bring some things to the scene as well.
10:40 Like Evan mentioned,
10:42 Jacob likes to leave us hanging at the end.
10:44 - And none of the physicality is scripted.
10:45 So if I come in on his back,
10:48 that's not in the script.
10:50 - That's the thing I would have said,
10:52 is that it's like, I don't,
10:54 the script is the Bible to me,
10:56 but then I get very awkward and uncomfortable.
10:59 And so my improv comes physically.
11:02 They'll force feed a banana to someone.
11:06 - Those gin shots this season were very physical.
11:10 That was very exciting for me.
11:11 - Yes.
11:12 - Yeah, Melanie, do you practice your lines,
11:15 like pronouncing everything fully
11:17 and then go into drunk mode or how does that work?
11:20 - Yeah, yeah.
11:20 I say them normally, which sounds ridiculous,
11:24 but I just try to get every word exactly the way it is.
11:27 Because for this show, I think it's just so well-written.
11:31 Like the comedy is just there.
11:33 If you just can get the words out properly
11:36 or in my case, not properly.
11:37 - The older God is there for the young God.
11:43 - Last question before they kick me out of here.
11:46 Shorzy, getting the spinoff,
11:48 what can you tell me about it?
11:50 What are you hoping to learn about that crazy guy?
11:52 - I think it's gonna be a lot more heart than you expect.
11:55 That's what I'll say.
11:56 I think there's gonna be a really hometown vibe
11:58 and it's gonna specifically focus on Sudbury
12:00 from what I understand.
12:01 And we've been shooting the show in Sudbury
12:03 for the last seven years.
12:04 And I think it's Kiso's opportunity to showcase that city
12:08 and how great it is.
12:09 - I mean, hey, Shorzy wants to win, right?
12:12 He goes north to win.
12:13 It's actually, it's kind of neat.
12:15 So in that series, they use Sudbury.
12:19 He actually goes to the town of Sudbury
12:21 and they use the real city as the backdrop,
12:23 which is where we actually filmed "Lighter Kenny."
12:26 So there's a little bit of life imitating art
12:28 or art imitating life, I guess,
12:29 would be the more accurate representation.
12:32 But yeah, he goes off and leaves Riley and Jonesy behind
12:37 to battle it out in the beer leagues.
12:39 And I believe he's going out to win a ship,
12:41 if I'm not mistaken.
12:42 Hey, here's he.
12:43 - Yeah, I mean, I think we're gonna find out
12:45 a lot of different things about a guy
12:48 that you don't really know too much about
12:49 up until this point.
12:50 He's sort of a one-dimensional character up until this point.
12:52 And I think the show is probably gonna show
12:54 a great many sides to him, for sure.
12:56 - I'm not sure what I'm allowed to tell you about it.
12:58 He's getting a spinoff.
13:00 It exists.
13:02 We have filmed it.
13:03 He will play hockey.
13:05 I hope everyone likes it.
13:07 It's something I'm really proud of.
13:10 We're still in post-production on it.
13:12 We just finished filming it.
13:13 But I don't wanna give too many spoilers away,
13:15 but it's very exciting.
13:16 And yeah, it's a fun new kind of expansion
13:20 of the Letterkenny TV universe, the LKTVU.
13:25 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:27 - It's right off the tongue.
13:28 Yeah, exactly.
13:29 Just everyone will wanna say it.
13:31 (upbeat music)
13:34 (fireworks exploding)
13:37 (fireworks exploding)
13:41 (fireworks exploding)
13:44 (fireworks exploding)
13:47 (rock music)
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