Tony Hale's Rise from Army to the White House

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 16, 2016

Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor and author Tony Hale joins us to talk about his career and current projects. Hale is best known for his current role as Gary Walsh, the downtrodden personal aide to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Vice President Selina Meyer on HBO’s Emmy Award-winning political comedy, Veep. Prior to Veep, he co-starred as Buster Bluth on the Emmy Award-winning series Arrested Development.

The penultimate episode of "Veep" Season 5 will air on HBO this Sunday, June 18 at 10:30 p.m. and the finale will air the following Sunday, June 26th at the same time.

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