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‘Hacks’ Season 3: How Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs & Jen Statsky Navigated Strikes & Setbacks To Bring Back A Beloved Show
‘Hacks’ Season 3: How Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky navigated setbacks to bring back beloved show.
EXCLUSIVE: It’s late January on the Las Vegas Strip, and a woman with a tall beehive hairdo, and dressed head to toe in a pink, sequined pantsuit, steps in front of the fountain outside Caesar’s Palace clutching multiple bags of high-end designer shopping. This is Jean Smart, in the guise of her Hacks headliner Deborah Vance, preparing to shoot among the last of her scenes for the much-delayed third season of the Max and Universal Television comedy series. Indeed, says co-showrunner, director, and star Paul W. Downs, “Most crew people, because it’s gig work, would move on to other jobs, but everybody waited because they love Jean and wanted to come back with her to this show.”
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