'How come it's all guys?': Jean Smart of ‘Hacks’ on lack of women in late night

Record ID: 1986949

  • Title: 'How come it's all guys?': Jean Smart of ‘Hacks’ on lack of women in late night
  • Date: 29th March 2025
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ‘HACKS’ CAST AND CREW PHOTOCALL INCLUDING JEAN SMART AND HANNAH EINBINDER AT PALEYFEST PHOTOGRAPHERS JEAN SMART AND HANNAH EINBINDER POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR, JEAN SMART OF ‘HACKS’, ON WHERE THE SHOW LEFT OFF AT THE END OF SEASON THREE, SA
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  • Keywords: COMEDY HACKS HBO JEAN SMART LATE NIGHT PREMIERE
  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
  • City: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,North America,Television
  • Reuters ID: LVA001258228032025RP1
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  • Story Text: HBO hosted the season premiere of ‘Hacks’ at PaleyFest on Friday (March 28) with actors Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder in attendance.
    The Emmy-winning sitcom is about a 70-something comedian and a millennial writer.
    Season four, which will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, April 10 on HBO, picks up minutes after one of the show's tensest moments between Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder).
    Smart said she was shocked when she read the season three finale scene.
    “I don't like to know ahead of time what's happening,” she said. “So, when I got the script, I was like, 'Oh, cool'. But yeah, that was surprising. I thought, 'Wow, Deborah obviously feels betrayed, which is a real trigger for her, because betrayal is all about what feeds her. I mean, she's gotten betrayed her whole life, so that was, that was rough. But at the same time, there's a part of her that is like, 'Okay, okay. All right. You wanna play? We’ll play'. So, you know.”
    The season’s official logline reads, “Tensions rise as Deborah and Ava endeavor to get their late-night show off the ground and make history doing it.”
    Smart told Reuters she hopes the show makes audiences wonder why women are missing in late night.
    “You got the Chelsea Handlers and we had Rosie [O'Donnell] and Joan [Rivers],” she said. “And it's two steps forward, one step back.”
    "I don't know what it is. I do think that people just have different feelings about what they want to hear men say as opposed to what they want to hear women say. Whether that's right or wrong or whether that will ever change.”
    (Production: Alan Devall, Jackie Luna)
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