A version of this story on Tony Hale first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
This year on “Veep,” we learned several things about Tony Hale‘s character, Gary Walsh, the unreasonably devoted aide to Julia Louis- Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer. We learned that Gary used to be a candy striper with a full head of hair, and that his father is an emotionally abusive boor who also happens to be deeply closeted, and that his mother likes to whisper in people’s ears, just as Gary does to Selina.
Tony Hale learned those things, too, in what he refers to as “an aha moment.