Hacksis returning for season 2!
In the video,Jean SmartandHannah Einbinder’s characters, Deborah Vance and Ava, are seen on cars, boats, stages and dumpsters as they make their way through Vance’s national standup tour. As the classic Cass Elliot tune “Make Your Own Kind of Music” plays in the background, the sneak peek promises fans a mix of drama and comedy, much like season 1.
In the first season of the show, Vance, a legendary stand-up comedian, teams up with a young writer Ava to help freshen up her act as they learn to respect each other’s differences along the way.
In addition to Smart, 70, and Einbinder, 26, the returning cast includes fellow Emmy acting nominees, Carl Clemons-Hopkins as Deborah’s COO Marcus and Jane Adams as Ava’s mother Nina.
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Smart, who recently won a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a Screen Actors' Guild Award for her role as the legendary comedian, spoke toVanityFairlast year about her love for the character.
“I love that Deborah is kind of inconsistent or unpredictable. You know, she has very different relationships with all the different people in her life. And it’s a testament to the writing that they all seem to make sense,” Smart toldVanity Fair.
She added, “She’s incredibly generous, she’s incredibly cheap, she can be incredibly kind, and incredibly abusive. But it all seems to just make sense. That was fascinating to me, and makes it very fun to play.”
Inher acceptance speech at the SAG Awards, Smart said her co-stars were “cast in heaven” and also thanked Einbinder, calling her a castmate and “partner in crime.”
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For Einbinder,Hackswas her first-ever role job after her career as a standup comedian. In aninterviewwith PEOPLE last year, Einbinder — who was a first-time nominee at theGolden Globesand theEmmy Awards— talked about that transition.
“It’s certainly different,” she said of her role inHacks. “I think the most difficult part about it, in the beginning, was the fact that on set, everything has to be silent because they’re obviously recording the sound. So no one can really laugh, and when there’s silence, that triggers a reaction in my soul that I’m bombing.”
“I’m trying to be a lot more fluid with how I view comedy,” she adds. “I don’t want there to be any rigidity in my approach.”
Season 2 ofHackswill begin streaming on HBO Max on May 12.
source: people.com
