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As the fifth and final season of 'Hacks' is currently rolling out on HBO Max, Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Kaitlin Olson, Paul W. Downs and Meg Stalter sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to react to "iconic" moments from the show, including their very first scenes from the series' first episode of season one. The cast get emotional as they reflect on how characters like Deborah and Ava have "changed each other forever," as well as how working on the series has changed their own lives.

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00:00Hi, I'm Caitlin Olsen, and this is an up-and-coming young actress named...
00:05Hi, my name's Jean Smart. Thanks.
00:08Hi, I'm Hannah Einbinder.
00:09I'm Paul Downs.
00:10I'm Meg Stolter.
00:11And we're the cast of Hacks.
00:13This is Hacks.
00:14The cast of Hacks.
00:15The cast of Hacks.
00:15We're the cast.
00:21I guess I should just jump out the window.
00:24Well, you'd probably just break your legs.
00:25What?
00:26Because this is a 12-floor terrace, but...
00:28If you're seriously thinking of hurting yourself...
00:29I'm not.
00:30Plus, I've told you how I would kill myself a million times.
00:33Yeah.
00:34I'd wear a suicide vest on Watch Your Happens Live.
00:36Very funny.
00:39Here.
00:39You're dripping on the leather.
00:41I just got those chairs.
00:42It was a whole thing.
00:44Oh, it's a emotional scene at the beginning.
00:47You know what?
00:47I love your strong female POV.
00:49Obsessed.
00:50But maybe in the future...
00:51Obsessed.
00:52I love your strong female POV.
00:54Exactly how you're feeling about everything at all times.
00:55Oh, my God.
00:56This is so unfair.
00:58Would a hug make you feel better?
01:00I can't technically touch you without someone else present.
01:02I get that.
01:03Hi, dude.
01:04Yeah!
01:05I love.
01:06You told me to interrupt you on more important client call, and Debra Vance is on the line,
01:10and it's not as important, so I'm just like...
01:13We are babies.
01:15My voice is higher back then.
01:16It is.
01:17I'm not kidding.
01:17It is.
01:18In other videos, too.
01:19Yeah, I don't know what it is.
01:20It is.
01:20It's literally...
01:21Yeah.
01:21You're my favorite client.
01:22Watching that was euphoric.
01:26I love watching the show.
01:28It's so good.
01:29That was the first time we saw both of you on the show.
01:32That was our debut.
01:32That was your debut.
01:33And it was your audition scene, so it was your first line you ever said.
01:37If we did a reunion reading for charity in 20 years, and it was that scene, and it started
01:45there, and I walked...
01:47The curtain came up, and I said, I should just kill myself.
01:50Crazy applause.
01:51You walking in, crazy applause.
01:54I'd have to get a new voice, I guess, to be able to do it.
01:57These are iconic moments.
01:59Yeah.
02:00What?
02:00Are you kidding me?
02:03So, Jimmy tells me that you're a very talented...
02:05No, let go of it!
02:06Mom!
02:07Mom!
02:07They're being insane!
02:09They're not letting me leave!
02:10Sorry, apparently she won't let Josefina see.
02:14Oh my God!
02:15There's nothing in here!
02:17My God!
02:18Give.
02:19Give.
02:19Fine.
02:20Searching her back.
02:21See the shit I gotta put up with?
02:23Unbelievable.
02:24You're doing total strange.
02:25That's so funny.
02:26I've got a fucking UTI, okay?
02:29Everybody, I'm so sorry I didn't feel like broadcasting to the whole world, but you got
02:34me.
02:35You got me, detectives.
02:36I need relief for my horrific urethra pain, okay?
02:40Everybody happy now?
02:42Not happy now.
02:43Just glad to see you're getting your fluids, sweetheart.
02:52That's my favorite.
02:53After all that, she's like, well, I don't want to not kiss you.
02:56Goodbye.
02:59No, it's really, it's like, it's like she's 16, 17 years old.
03:03What a baby.
03:04God, I love her so much.
03:04Oh my God.
03:06That was the perfect introduction to that character.
03:09Perfect.
03:09Complete with the jumpsuit and the energy drink.
03:13Doesn't seem like that long ago.
03:14It doesn't seem like that long ago and it's, it's melancholy.
03:18It's so, that's the scene that I read.
03:21I mean, I had been told about the show.
03:23I'd been told you're going to, you know, play Jean Smart's daughter.
03:26I was already like, oh, this is exciting.
03:27And then they sent me that episode and it was just that one scene.
03:29And I was like, oh my God, it's going to be really fun.
03:33I mean, anytime I can talk about vagina pain, I'm already.
03:36So.
03:38God.
03:39The rest was just gravy.
03:40Technically, you're reaped for pain.
03:42Well, whatever.
03:43It's all part of the same.
03:44It's near the, it's in the vicinity of it.
03:46It's in the vicinity.
03:47Come on, would you do her?
03:49The raisin girl?
03:50She looks kinky.
03:51Beautiful breasts.
03:52Don't.
03:53We're at the show.
03:54Triple hazelnut macchiato.
03:55Ow.
03:56It's hot.
03:57What the hell is this?
03:58I said, I'm scared.
03:59I'm laughing.
04:00I'm laughing.
04:00Okay, I'll drink it.
04:01This was one of those.
04:02Get out of here, Arnold.
04:03Days where.
04:04What are you doing?
04:05We really couldn't keep it together.
04:07We had a lot.
04:08We broke my mind.
04:08We were getting in trouble.
04:09We were like really.
04:10I was laughing too much.
04:12We have power.
04:13From top to bottom.
04:14Okay.
04:15So I'm in half curla mode.
04:16Who cares?
04:17Half curla mode.
04:18Which this was the kernel for something that kept going.
04:21This is where we're going to.
04:22Because we represent the main talent.
04:23Gorilla mode was born.
04:24And lead with love.
04:26All right?
04:26It's really important.
04:27I love powerful scenes.
04:28You manage your way.
04:28I'll manage my way.
04:29Okay?
04:30I need to have sex.
04:32I think Google Gaga's a little more accessible.
04:34Thank you so much.
04:35I agree.
04:35Sandy Hone.
04:36Hi.
04:36Hello, head writer.
04:38Hey, so listen.
04:38We want to take you, our favorite client,
04:40out to dinner tonight to celebrate the show.
04:42Oh, shit.
04:43Sorry, I'm taking the writers out.
04:44I wouldn't invite you, but it's like a writer's only thing.
04:46Oh.
04:47Okay?
04:47Um, yeah.
04:49It's so sad.
04:50Okay, so Meg improvised the raising girl.
04:52I just started looking at her, and she looked so amazing on the box.
04:56Ah, yeah.
04:57Of course.
04:57I mean, she can't hold a candle to my girlfriend, but who can?
05:01But I was thinking it'd be, I guess I, I think Kayla would sexualize her.
05:05It was such a funny inn.
05:06You know, like, you write this chuffa, this, like, beginnings of scenes,
05:10and Meg often enhances them.
05:13That was found on the day.
05:13And you do, too.
05:14We have a lot of fun with the, like, just say something random right here.
05:17Yeah, yeah.
05:17Just to get us into the scene.
05:18To get us into it.
05:19Yeah.
05:19Because you can't start the camera and we're like this.
05:22No.
05:22You gotta be acting like you're talking.
05:24You know, you can't just be sitting there, hmm, waiting for the next person to come in.
05:28Yeah.
05:28Yeah, yeah.
05:29I, I just, I can't believe you've never told me any of that before.
05:32You know, it's one thing to find out all that stuff about you and Dad.
05:35It's another thing to find it out with 3,000 other people.
05:38Yeah, I don't know why it's always been easier for me to tell things to strangers.
05:43Well, therapy's just talking to one stranger in private.
05:46Well, my insurance doesn't cover it.
05:47What can I tell you?
05:49Jesus.
05:50It's not as expensive as IVF.
05:52Oh, yeah.
05:53How's that going?
05:53Good.
05:54I always thought that you just didn't even try.
05:56But after tonight, I'm finding out you did try to be a good parent and you still fucked it up.
06:01So, I'm kind of scared that I'm going to, too.
06:04You will.
06:06Aw.
06:06It's impossible not to.
06:10But it's worth it.
06:12Aw.
06:13That makes me cry.
06:16Oh, my God.
06:17It's true.
06:19It's true.
06:20Because she knows.
06:22She knows she's failed her daughter in certain ways.
06:25And, you know.
06:25I think anybody who's a parent, they don't ever feel like they're a success.
06:30Doing a good enough job.
06:31If they're not a good parent.
06:33And you always feel like you either did too much or too little.
06:36Mm-hmm.
06:36You never got it just right.
06:38Mm-hmm.
06:38You know?
06:38There are moments where you're like, oh, she's such a narcissist and just didn't give a shit
06:42about her kid.
06:43And that's not necessarily true.
06:45She loves her daughter very much and just is such a broken person herself.
06:50She's just not able to do it in the healthiest way.
06:53But, you know, she's trying.
06:56Hey, look.
06:56I wore a good luck charm tonight.
07:00Oh, my God.
07:02It's a DeJewelry 2019.
07:04It's going to be in the special.
07:06Does this sound navel-gazy?
07:08I'm like, I love watching the show.
07:10I love watching the show.
07:11We love it.
07:12It's a celebration of our love and our community.
07:16And it's like looking through an old photo album of your friends.
07:19Oh.
07:20It's lovely.
07:20It's so fun.
07:21And it's so funny and amazing.
07:23I get really emotional because I think about how the characters change from watching something
07:29from the first season, but also how we've changed and our friendships have grown.
07:33And my life's changed from the show and being with you guys.
07:37So it makes me emotional.
07:40In that scene with us, we didn't know each other in life or in the show yet.
07:44All of what we built throughout the seasons, Kayla and Jimmy are so close.
07:48Debra and Ava have changed each other for forever.
08:00You
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