'People have finally caught up to Jean Smart,” and the creators of Hacks are thrilled. They discuss the star, the season's emotional ending, and what to expect next:
last month. In some ways, she said, filming the episode was “a good distraction.” The show dedicated the finale to Gilliland.
But the show’s writers made the decision not to show viewers Deborah’s no-holds-barred stand-up performance. The idea instead was “to focus on the offstage moments of these women's lives. We really wanted to do a show aboutthese women tell these jokes,” Downs says. “We really wanted, for instance, her performance at the funeral to be the performance that you see—she’s exposed and just being herself, but she’s naturally liquid funny.
After Ava flirts with another job offer, she has a knockdown fight with Deborah, who is getting cold feet about making herself vulnerable onstage. “To be able to hold your own with Jean Smart, who’s operating at 10 out of absolute 10…that’s really not something you can teach in acting school. She does it,” Aniello says of Einbinder.
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