Tony Hale cried when he finished filming his passion project Sketch after an eight-year battle to get the film made. In the family fantasy adventure, the Veep actor plays the father of a grieving young girl whose drawings come to life when she drops her sketchbook in a mysterious lake. Hale joined the project as a producer around eight years ago and helped director Seth Worley pitch it to studios, and after years of rejection after rejection, they finally got to make the film. Because he'd been involved with the project almost from the beginning and been on a "rollercoaster" to get it made, Hale was overcome with emotion on the day they finished filming. "The day we wrapped, I have never felt so excited. I was just like, 'We did it! We did it!' I mean, I'm so grateful," he told Cover Media in an interview. "Wrap is always a surreal experience on any job but when you're really a part of it for eight years, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, we got it in the can!' It was thrilling... I'm sure I cried. I'm sure I just kept crying." The Arrested Development actor added that he and Worley never gave up on Sketch because they "both had such a belief" in the film and kept thinking, "We just have to get this made." Hale admitted that being involved in all aspects of the film's creation made the project much more "rewarding" than a typical acting job. "I'm so thankful for the work I've done but you're doing somebody else's work, they'll give you a script and you're playing a (character)," he explained. "But to be a part of the creation of it, there's just nothing like that. It's so rewarding when it comes out and (you) just feel like you have your hand in everything." Sketch will be released in cinemas on Friday 24 October.