AfterBarryaired its final episode in June, Bill Hader revealed that one scene from the finale was changed when one of the actors questioned why they were going that route.

According to Hader, he initially had Sally Reed bond with NoHo Hank as the latter was dying following the standoff between him and Fuches. However,Sally actor Sarah Goldbergquestioned why they would share anything close to a bond, which convinced Hader to change the scene forHBO’s hit.

Hader toldVarietywhat happened in the originalBarryscene and why he changed it. “I thought Sally and NoHo Hank meeting was this really big moment in the show,” Hader said. “It’s embarrassing even talking about it. You see that they kind of have this common bond, which is that they both love Barry, and they’ve both been wronged by Barry. I thought, ‘Oh, they would connect.’” Goldberg then questioned why Sally would connect with Hank after taking her against her will and threatening her life. Her question changed Hader’s mind. “I had no answer,” he said. “I realized later the answers were fan service. I got insecure, and I was like, ‘Oh, the fans will love this.’ Two, I was insecure, and enough people had told me, ‘The show has gotten so bleak’ that I was like, ‘Oh, it should have a nice hopeful moment.’”

Hader, of course, changed the scene following Goldberg’s notes. Instead, after NoHo Hank was fatally wounded by Fuches, he grabbed the hand of his former lover Cristobal’s statue, whom he murdered after Cristobal refused to go along with Hank’s plans to go back into the drug game. Doing so symbolized that despite Hank choosing the gangster life over being with Cristobal - which served asone ofBarry’s most heartbreaking twists- he still loved him more than anything.

Throughout the show’s run, Hank and Sally had never been so much as in the same room together before he kidnapped her and her son in the show’s penultimate episode. The closest they ever came to interacting beforehand was when Hank tried to get the drop on Berkman duringBarryseason 2, in which he tried to have an amateur Chechen gangster kill Barry with Sally in his apartment, only for that venture to fail hilariously. Unless Sally got the most sudden case of Stockholm’s Syndrome, it made no sense for the two sides to show any connection.

Stories like those demonstrate how important it is to listen to the actors on set. They understand the characters they’re playing because they’re personifying them, so the notes they give are worth listening to.TheBarryfinale was bleak, which divided the fans a bit when it wrapped up. However, had it not been for Goldberg’s notes, the fans may have been universally confused by that decision had they gone with it.