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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, I'm Jean Smart. Thanks.
00:08Hi, I'm Hannah Einbinder.
00:09I'm Paul Downs.
00:10I'm Meg Stolter.
00:12And we're the cast of Hacks.
00:13The cast of Hacks.
00:14The 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.
00:26What?
00:26Because it's like 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 What 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, I'm taking the emotional thing in the beginning.
00:47You know what?
00:48Love 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 don't care.
01:03I don't care about it, but...
01:04Hi, dude.
01:04Yeah!
01:05What's up?
01:06You told me to interrupt you on a 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, Beckman.
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.
01:21Thank you, my favorite client.
01:22Watching that was euphoric.
01:26I love watching the show.
01:28Yeah.
01:28It's so good.
01:29That was the first time we saw both of you on the show, right?
01:32That was our debut.
01:32That was your debut.
01:33If we did...
01:34It 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.
02:00Like, are you kidding me?
02:03So, Jimmy tells me that you're a very talented...
02:06I don't know 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!
02:16There's nothing in here!
02:17Oh, my God!
02:18Give.
02:19Give.
02:19Fine.
02:20Searching her back.
02:21See the shit I gotta put up with?
02:23Unbelievable.
02:24Do it totally strange.
02:26That's so funny.
02:27I've got a fucking UTI, okay?
02:29Everybody?
02:30I'm so sorry I didn't feel like broadcasting to the whole world, but you got me!
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.
02:58Goodbye.
02:59No, it's really, it's like, it's like she's 16, 17 years old.
03:04What 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.
03:30And 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 in.
03:36So.
03:38God.
03:39The rest was just gravy.
03:40Technically, you're going to read for a pain.
03:42Well, whatever.
03:43It's all part of the scene.
03:44It's near the, it's in the vicinity of it.
03:46It's in the vicinity.
03:47Mom, what'd you do her?
03:49The raisin girl?
03:50She looks pinky.
03:51Beautiful breast.
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'm sorry, I'm laughing.
04:00Get out, Joe.
04:00Okay, I'll drink it.
04:01Thank you so much.
04:02This was one of those.
04:02Get out of here, Arnold.
04:03Days, where are you doing?
04:05We really didn't keep it together.
04:07We had a lot.
04:08We were getting in trouble.
04:09We were like, really, nothing was laughing too much.
04:13From top to bottom, okay?
04:15So I went half gorilla mode.
04:16Who cares?
04:17Half gorilla mode.
04:18Which, this was the colonel for something that kept going.
04:21This is where we're in.
04:22Because we represent the main tower.
04:23Gorilla mode was born.
04:24And lead with love, all right?
04:26It's really important.
04:27I love powerful scenes being powerful in the.
04:30I need to have sex.
04:32I think Google Gaga's a little more accessible.
04:34Thank you so much.
04:35Sandy Honek.
04:36Hello, head rider.
04:37Hey, so listen.
04:38We want to take you, our favorite client, out to dinner tonight to celebrate the show.
04:42Oh, shit.
04:43Sorry, I'm taking the riders out.
04:44I wouldn't invite you, but it's like a riders only thing.
04:46Oh.
04:47Okay?
04:47Um, yeah.
04:49So sad.
04:50Okay, so Meg improvised the Raisin 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, you write this chuffa, this like, the beginnings of scenes and Meg often
05:12enhances them.
05:13That was found on the day.
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 this.
05:18To get us into it.
05:19Yeah.
05:19Because you, because you can't start the camera and we're like this.
05:22No.
05:22You got to be acting like you're talking and we're like this.
05:25You know, you can't just be sitting there, hmm, waiting for the next person to come in.
05:28Yeah.
05:28Yeah.
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 easy for me to tell things to strangers.
05:43Well, therapy is just talking to one stranger in private.
05:46Well, my insurance doesn't cover it.
05:47We're going to 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.
06:07It'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, she knows she's failed her daughter in certain ways and, 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, you know.
06:39There are moments where you're like, oh, she's such a narcissist and just didn't give a shit about 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 trim tonight.
07:00Oh, my God.
07:02It's a DeJewelry 2019.
07:04It's going to be in the special.
07:06Does this sound nable-gazy?
07:08I, like, love watching the show.
07:10I love watching the show.
07:12We 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.
07:19It'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 from the first season.
07:30But 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, like, emotional.
07:39Like, in 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, like, Kayla and Jimmy are so close.
07:48Debra and Ava have changed each other forever.
07:53Debra and Ava have changed each other.
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