I'm Matt Walsh, I play Mike McLintock press secretary on Veep I've been doing the
show for seven seasons almost eight and a half years, four in Baltimore three in
Los Angeles it's the longest I've ever played a character and I love playing
Mike McLintock and I love being on Veep
Well season seven finds Mike working for BuzzFeed at the end of season six Selina
kicked Mike out of her inner circle he's scrambling to support three children
Mike thinking about getting another one so he is on the road skyping home to his
family living with college-age kids and trying to adapt once again to a media
world that's just much faster than he is. Oh my god I do I really think our season
7 delivers on a lovely wrap-up for all the characters obviously Selina but all
of us I think we get a nice send-off and I think it's funny throughout and I do
think it's like no other season before I think we've ramped up the absurdity and
pace and there's also a lot of people who come back from all the seasons
you're gonna get to see all the great characters who were born in Veep
and they all come through for a victory lap so I think it's a pretty special
season. Hardest thing about saying goodbye to Veep. I'm gonna miss the table
reads because those are the first time and only time really where we get to
experience the material as an audience does because we don't they stay up all
night and they put it right in front of us as we're sitting down so you're
reading these jokes and seeing your friends perform the lines as their
characters for the first time so those are the real authentic laughs and those
are the real moments like so I'm gonna miss those moments I'll miss the whole
process of the show where we get to work with really lovely people and we get to
read the words of brilliant writers and I own a character that I've been doing
for seven years and who's that who's an idiot and who's a mess and he was also
very loving and also slightly talented in the world of media so he has a lot of
levels so I'm gonna miss stepping into that character a lot uh I think I'm a
little messy like Mike like I do have a stain on my coat already
I think I'm slightly lazy like Mike but after that there's not a lot of
similarities between like I'm a little smarter than Mike thank God yeah I don't
know I I'd like to think I wouldn't stay with
Selina as long as Mike did have a little more respect for myself so there's
there's a little similarity but not a tonne. I did I took a piece of a set that
Mike was a scene that Mike was in and Dave Mandel encouraged me to take it
because he's an obsessive collector himself and it weighs about 200 pounds
and it's about the size of half a garage door so it's this giant thing that's in
my office back in LA and I don't know what I'm gonna do with it uh you know
how the lovely people and props framed it for me so they cut it out of a wall
they put a sturdy frame behind it and they delivered it to my office so I had
nothing to do with it that's how things get done in my world if I don't have to
do anything it can happen you know what
well I think Mike is better at his job than Sean Spicer I think mike has more
integrity than Sean Spicer because he would have quit I think Lee is awful but
I don't know I think oddly Mike was better his job and I don't think he ever
would have worked for drama uh quit your job I would say it to Sara Huckabee too
I would say that Huckabee Sanders I would say Sarah Sean I understand the
need to get the best job for a press secretary in the world and I understand
the power and the access you're getting I understand how long it takes to get
that job being kicked around and suffering a lot of moments in your life
to get there but once you have that job take that off your list and get the F
out because at some point you're complicit in the awfulness
you