What 'Veep' stars Matt Walsh, Tony Hale and Tim Simons will miss most about their hilarious political characters
No one puts the "fun" in "dysfunctional" like the cast of "Veep"!
Three of the show's stars Tony Hale, Matt Walsh and Timothy Simons said the upcoming seventh and final season of "Veep" is going to be fun yet "more dysfunctional" than ever."
The cast mates joined "GMA" to discuss their run on the hit HBO political comedy and said despite their tears on set, it almost hasn't set in yet that the series has officially wrapped.
"I think there might be like a football player overlap in that it's not going to be until next fall when we would have gone back to filming that it'll feel like it's over," Simmons explained. "Right now it's all still normal, like we're on hiatus."
"But it was sad," Hale said. "When we finished in December there was a lot of crying. We all gathered around the monitor every time someone finished their last scene and hugged and stuff."
Julia Louis Dreyfus, who stars as Selina Meyer, told "GMA" on Monday that Simons was the "biggest cry baby."
Simons laughed and agreed that he was "100 percent" the first to cry on set. "I was certainly the first cry baby, it came out hard and fast," he admitted.
Walsh added that emotions soared when people came by the set to say goodbye.
"When somebody had their last scene, everyone would come to the set and they would be there and hug you. It was very emotional," he recalled.
Despite the bittersweet sign off, all three cast members shared some of their favorite memories from the show.
Hale said he will miss the "organized chaos" between his character Gary Walsh and Selena Meyer.
"It seems chaotic but it becomes its own choreography -- this kind of comic dance that we do," he said of the interaction with Dreyfus as her right-hand man.
For Simons, whose character Jonah Ryan evolved from White House aide to Congressman to presidential candidate, he will miss his onscreen persona's blind optimism.
"He wakes up every single day and without considering any of the evidence thinks that he's going to do a great job," Simons said laughing. "He has no discernable skill, talent, charm or grace but every day he wakes up and goes, 'you know what today's gonna be great.'"
Walsh said from the overall show, he'll miss doing the big table reads with the full cast.
"That's the only time when we are the audience, that's when we get to see the script for the first time and everybody's around the table so it's like play practice," he explained.
As for his character Mike McLintock, who was Meyer's spokesman before he was fired at the end of season six, Walsh said bluntly he will miss "how unbelievably dumb Mike can be."
"I love pushing the stupidity of that character," he said. "And I love eating in every scene. Every time there's food in a scene I'll tell the prop guy, 'bring that food a little closer.'"
Walsh also said if he could share some advice with his character back in season one it would be to practice the skills that would help with social media.
"There's gonna be a new thing called social media so learn how to type and learn how to use a mouse and take photos on your phone," he said.
Dreyfus also said that if she were asked to make a ballot with the three men's on-screen personas, "well, we'd all be screwed," she said. But ultimately she chose Tim as the campaign manager, Tony as vice president and Matt as the presidential candidate.
Walsh had fun with the fictitious honor and declared his campaign slogan would be "let's get food" or "America are you hungry?"
Hale said seventh and final season of "Veep" gets "more dysfunctional if that's even possible" but they all said it will be a great, fun season.
The final season premieres Sunday March 31 on HBO.
