Best known for his run on Fox’s “Arrested Development” as Buster Bluth, it surprised many when Tony Hale found his way on Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” Speaking with Vulture though, Hale explained that it wasn’t he who was odd one out but rather the film’s star, Matt Damon.
“I play Matt Damon’s lawyer in the second half of the movie,” Hale explains. “It’s just a crazy story of this guy who pulled one over on both the FBI and the company he was working for, Mark Whitacre. And to work with Steven Soderbergh was just a dream. And the story is so crazy that he hired a lot of actors who typically do comedy, not for us to make it funnier but just for us to add our quirky essence. There was one time when were all sitting around a table with Matt Damon, and all these comic actors were there and we were all silent, and Matt made a comment like “Aren’t you guys comic actors? No one’s talking. Why is that?” And Paul F. Tompkins is across the table from him and he goes, “’Cause we’re not supposed to be here.” And everybody just goes, “Yeah,” like, “We don’t know why we’re here.”
We never really noticed how many there were but a quick IMDB check shows that Hale, Damon and Tompkins were joined by the likes of Patton Oswalt, Jimmy Pardo (“Never Not Funny” podcast with Tompkins), Joel McHale (“The Soup” on E!), Scott Bakula (“Chuck”), Thomas F. Wilson (“Freaks And Geeks”), Andrew Daly (“MADtv”) and Scott Adsit (“30 Rock”). If the trailer wasn’t enough to get you out of your seat for this, how about watching this rag-tag bunch of comic actors mixing it with an overweight, simple-minded Damon? Can’t wait. [Vulture]
