Mary Walsh

Where, where's Jay to?

And Mary Walsh as the mayor.

You're honorary Newfoundlanders now.

You can taste the iceberg in it, can't you?

So, uh, I, I have a big, big element of what you call silly and, and foolish, and, uh, just fun.

And I, I do, like you said at the very beginning, I do really think that, that laughter i- is so important, and I think of people like, uh, you know, 22 Minutes, and like Cathy Jones and Mary Walsh and, and, uh-

Yeah

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And I suppose in some way you have to be saying something, you know, to make some people laugh, so that's so important.

Well, it's so funny you say that.

I, I'll gonna ask you a similar question, uh, off of something that Mary Walsh once told me.

I interviewed her, uh, similar about her career and, and, and she said that, you know, these days people take things so seriously, and sometimes it's just good to be silly, to have fun, to relax, because we need that.

And I went, like, is she from America? Like, where is she from? Was

it Mary Walsh? Because she's like the second most recognizable character in the whole thing.

No, it wasn't her.

It was a woman named Willow Keene who I looked up and she's from Labrador.

That was a bit of the trailer for Below on Netflix.

It stars Josh Hartnett, and then we've got a whole bunch of Canadians in the cast, including Mackenzie Davis and the great Mary Walsh herself.

Sandra, would you please start us off by just telling us a little bit about what this show is about?

Absolutely.

But I'm taking it that way 'cause I think it's a really sweet nod to like how much international work, including Below, has come to Newfoundland in recent years.

One of the key cast members that you see behind the bar at Linda's and running these town meetings is played by Mary Walsh.

And if you don't know who Mary Walsh is, she's one of the most iconic ac-... actors in Canadian history.

They could not have picked a better person to represent local Newfoundlanders and Newfoundland culture than Mary Walsh.

Mary Walsh is like the Beyoncé of the East Coast acting scene.

Like, she's the GOAT.

There's nobody better.

That's so funny.

No, he's a really nice guy.

And then my dad got to meet Mary Walsh.

Your dad got to meet

Mary Walsh? Mary Walsh.

She was

like shaking.

Like we were at the reception and my dad goes and introduced himself to Mary Walsh and, you know, he says that he's from, he's from Mary's town and he says that Mary Walsh says, oh, so you know Bernie.

And my dad goes, oh, I know about six.

And Salter Street Films, Michael Donovan.

And then, of course, my sister Kathy went on to do, with Mary Walsh, to do This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

It was all Newfoundlanders there, mostly in the early days.

And also, as we were making Faustus Bidgood and the other film stuff.