VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Henry Hall & Daniel Thrasher On Working With Comedy Icon Carol Kane On ‘Dinner With The Parents’

Actors Henry Hall and Daniel Thrasher looked back at their favorite moments from working on the show Dinner with the Parents.

Dinner with the Parents is a new sitcom that follows the two twenty-something Langer brothers (Hall and Thrasher) who attend weekly dinners at their parents’ house; each gathering is sure to be chaotic and disastrous by nature.

Hall, the son of Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, overviewed his role in the show for uInterview founder Erik Meers, “I play David Langer, the eldest of the Langer siblings, and every Friday night I come home for… Shabbat dinner with my ‘lovely’ family, and I walk in the front door hoping that everything is going to be normal; I’ll be asked how I’m doing, I’ll ask how they’re doing, and we’ll sit down and have an orderly and nice dinner. Still, most of the time, what happens is I walk through the front door, and my little brother is there to spray me with a water gun or something.”

“So basically every episode, you’ll watch David go from this humble math professor to a teen, trying to fight back against his crazy little brother who’s pranking him left and right, and the rest of his family who’s always up to some kind of mischief,” Hall surmised. “This is a broad sitcom in the most classic way.”

A social media star, Thrasher spoke about their two characters’ relationship. “I think it’s just a really classic older-brother younger-brother dynamic — which is interesting because I’m the younger sibling in real life and Henry is the older sibling in real life, so we both had to access our primal instincts.”

The two discussed what they would remember most about the show from their time off-screen. Hall reminisced, “Gosh, I mean, every day was like going to the greatest possible college of comedy ever, and your professor is Carol Kane and Michaela Watkins and Dan Bakkedahl, all of whom are just legends, they’re pros. It was basically impossible to walk away from a day and not learn something from them. We were constantly joking and doing bits and crazy stuff behind the scenes.”

Hall said, “It was pretty great to have all those guys leading the way.”

Thrasher explained, “When you act opposite Carol Kane, it’s like acting with a king cobra; it’s a hypnotic trance; I feel like I can’t move as freely as I once did.” He agreed with Hall that the presence of other experienced comedians made for an informative environment, “This is Henry and I’s first big show in a way, and it was like a conservatory. It was amazing.”

The first season of Dinner with the Parents can be watched on Amazon Prime.