Hannah Einbinder eats in a hilarious scene that was left on the cutting room floor.
In an exclusive chat with PEOPLE at GQ’s Man of the Year party on Nov. 14, Hacks star, 29, opened up about a scene from the show’s Christmas episode that she was sorry to see cut from the final product.
“It was revealed that she was an Irish step dancer,” she said with a laugh about her character Ava Daniels. “They’re making her perform and I had about two hours and I was doing my best, but I think the episode went on too long and they had to cut it.”
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Hannah Einbinder (left) and Jean Smart.
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While Einbinder’s routine may never see the light of day, the comedian revealed that the footage still exists.
“I was actually watching it yesterday, because I was like, ‘Damn, I can’t believe it [it]” she added, saying that the show’s producer, Lucia Aniello, still had the tape. “She just pulled it up on her phone. She just showed it to me. It was wild.”
The series Max finished airing its third season in May 2024, and season 4 was announced the day after the finale was announced. The series follows the relationship between Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a comedienne who has no connections and was the best, and Ava (Einbinder), an up-and-coming writer who is hired to revive Vance’s faltering career.
From acting in HacksEinbinder received critical acclaim and received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations.
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Hannah Einbinder.
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In October, her mother, Laraine Newman, told PEOPLE how amazed she was by her daughter’s meteoric rise in comedy.
“I’m a real, proud mom,” she smiled before recalling the moment her daughter announced her decision to pursue acting. “It was really late. I mean, she was an athlete and then she went to Chapman for broadcast journalism and then she switched to writing for TV. And the kids were like, you’re funny, why don’t you join the improv group? And I’m like at one point, crying, she admitted, like a dirty secret, ‘I want to be an actress’.”
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While she admits that Einbinder was a little “late considering how early a lot of people started,” Newman noted that her daughter had the ability to go far “immediately.”
Despite being a comedy legend herself, the actress told PEOPLE why she chose not to get too involved in her daughter’s career. “As a parent you want to protect your child, but children see advice, unsolicited advice as criticism,” she explained. “And as for me, my experience is that when I try to do that, I pull a bloody stump. So it’s just, no.”
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