"I never thought we’d get a guy of his stature to wear a period piece wool costume in 90 degree weather for 10 days straight," McBride says of casting his surprise Civil War-set final season opener. "And for no money.

The creator and star of the hilarious HBO series tells IndieWire about casting his "Aloha" costar in a standalone prologue episode that pushed McBride and his crew to their creative edge.

This show has managed to survive — through COVID, through strikes — and we were able to still tell the story we wanted to tell and end it on our terms and wrap it up in a way

Note: This story contains spoilers "The Righteous Gemstones" Season 4, Episode 1. From its very first episode, "The Righteous Gemstones" has had no shortage of top-tier actors behaving ridiculously. After all,

The HBO series, which follows the hijinks of a famous televangelist family, is wrapping up with its fourth season.

I sent him the script and he called me back pretty quickly,” McBride tells PEOPLE before explaining what happened next

Danny McBride, who created the Gemstone series and plays the eldest sibling Jesse Gemstone, opened up to the People Magazine about how he managed to cast Bradley Cooper in the fourth

After two TV series focused on pompous protagonists ("Eastbound & Down," "Vice Principals") behold the finale of his third, "The Righteous Gemstones."

Not following the career of Danny McBride? If you’re a fan of comedy, you really should be. Over the past 20 years, particularly in his work with HBO, he’s become poet laureate of the American id. In Eastbound and Down (2005-2009),