‘Hacks’ Stars Hannah Einbinder and Paul W. Downs on the Legacy of ‘Hacks’ and Which Character Needs a Spinoff First
Hannah Einbinder says working with Gillian Anderson on the new film “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” has actually given her a new perspective on the...
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- Hannah Einbinder says working with Gillian Anderson on the new film “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” has actually given her a new perspective on the end of “Hacks” and its legacy.
- It’s made me feel like, ‘oh, I’m gonna talk about “Hacks” for the rest of my life!’ I’m so happy that will always be something that I can come back to and meditate on and express gratitude for.
- I want that to be the last thing people remember.” When grilled about “Jimmy and Kayla,” he adds, “getting to play these characters and having these characters evolve as much as they have over the five seasons has been so gratifying that it’s terrifying to think there won’t be more between the two of us.
- But for now, we’ve got Downs and Einbinder on this week’s Awards Circuit Podcast, where they talk more about the “Hacks” ending and what they’ve got in store next.
What happened
Hannah Einbinder says working with Gillian Anderson on the new film “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” has actually given her a new perspective on the end of “Hacks” and its legacy. It’s made me feel like, ‘oh, I’m gonna talk about “Hacks” for the rest of my life!’ I’m so happy that will always be something that I can come back to and meditate on and express gratitude for. I want that to be the last thing people remember.” When grilled about “Jimmy and Kayla,” he adds, “getting to play these characters and having these characters evolve as much as they have over the five seasons has been so gratifying that it’s terrifying to think there won’t be more between the two of us. But for now, we’ve got Downs and Einbinder on this week’s Awards Circuit Podcast, where they talk more about the “Hacks” ending and what they’ve got in store next. I just want to pop up in everything they do forever.” Meanwhile, Einbinder says she’s still thinking a lot about her time on “Hacks,” and how she found a video that she recorded for herself in Season 1. Now it feels like a bit of a time capsule: “It was in my trailer, and the sound is pretty muffled, and it’s kind of a shitty video, but I just was...
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