Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos found humor in ‘Sticky’ criminal panic [Video]

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Margo Martindale and Chris Diamantopoulos said the desperation of their criminal characters is what made The Sticky, on Hulu on Friday, funny.

The crime comedy is inspired by a true story of a 2012 heist of maple syrup from Quebec’s national reserve.

The cast plays fictional characters. Martindale, 73, plays Ruth Landry, a maple farmer in danger of losing the family farm while her husband is in a coma.

“Desperation equals, to me, the funny,” Martindale told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. “The more desperate you are, the more real, the funnier it is to me, sometimes.”

Diamantopoulos, 49, plays Mike Byrne, a Boston mobster who thinks the maple syrup heist will be easy money. When it gets complicated, Mike panics.

“His real character starts oozing out of his pores like maple syrup through a degraded waffle,” Diamantopoulos said. “It’s a chance for that reality, even though grounded, to lend itself to some pretty great humorous …