The Hollywood Reporter is part of MRC Media & Info, a division of MRC.Adding, "Selina is comfortable with Gary, which is significant. Tricky.”It was a playful and ideal wink to the very first episode, in which Mike attempted to console Selina about a gaffe by absurdly suggesting that maybe bigger breaking news could overshadow it: “What if Tom Hanks dies?”The relationship of Selina Meyer and Gary Walsh has always been hilarious, yes, but it’s also… what are the words? “He was completely psyched,” Louis-Dreyfus said.“The second [Frank] said it, it was just like, ‘Ah!’” Mandel says. And she can’t really allow herself to question that sacrifice. “And you are a lifesaver, I couldn’t have done it without you,” she returned, surprising him with a hug.
And it’s kind of also not fair.” Not sensing any approaching doom, Gary asked if she wanted coffee from across the street and pointed out that it was a chia seed in her mouth. “For twentysomething years, he had lived in this fantasy and it shook him, and hopefully it woke him out of that to where he can begin living his life. “You’d hate the flowers… but I… I brought the Dubonnet,” he says to her flag-draped coffin, a cocktail of emotions flooding his weary voice.
“And there’s nothing anyone can do to stop me from standing and walking for my country!” she concluded. Before the moment turned to something more shattering, though, she was jolted out of her daze when the Israeli prime minister calls, and she quickly reverted to charm mode.Desperate to find a fall guy for her scandals with the Meyer Fund and illicit ties to the Chinese government (whom she actively courted to meddle in the election), Selina chose the best man(child) for the job: poor, naive Gary. But in a career of amoral political moves, and especially in a recent tornado of decisions that saw her cravenly crave a return to the Oval Office at all costs — selling out her daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) by outlawing same-sex marriage, selling out Tibet by secretly okaying a Chinese invasion, selling out America by choosing dangerous dolt Jonah (Timothy Simons) as her VP — it definitively answered the question that was thematically draped over the season: How far will Selina go to get what she wants?It was during that last line that Gary was accosted by two FBI agents on the side of the stage. That’s what this season is about. Maybe in that moment she sticks her toe in that regret pond, but then quickly pulls it out, and moves forward with her miserable self — alone, and without anyone or anything in her life of meaning.”And yet, two-and-a-half decades later, Gary still showed up at Selina’s funeral, looking haggard and war-torn. It was really like, ‘All right, this is it.’”Filming that pivotal sell-out scene — in which Selina knows that the end is nigh for Gary — was challenging for both actors, given the weight of the moment (and the fact that this would be the last scene in which Louis-Dreyfus and Hale shared the screen). “That was the favorite.