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‘Hacks’ Star Jean Smart on the One Thing She Has in Common With Deborah Vance and How She Made Up Her ‘Fargo’ Backstory
'Hacks' star Jean Smart reflects on her long, distinguished career as she receives the Mary Tyler Moore Visionary Award for her impact on the industry
Although she has been graced with a career that has kept her very busy for more than four decades, the last 10-15 years are particularly notable not just for the quantity of projects, but also the variety of genres showcased in the likes of “ Fargo,” “Watchmen,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Babylon” and, of course, “Hacks,“ which has been the gift that keeps on giving. At one point in 2021, she was featured in three shows at the same time in wildly different genres: “Hacks,” “Mare of Easttown” and the animated series “Big Mouth.” And that type of scheduling luck is when it becomes really apparent to those watching and listening to her just how good she is. “Hacks” hasn’t officially been picked up yet for a fifth season — “I’d be kinda surprised if we didn’t” — but Smart has her summer hiatus book for another gig: a return to Broadway at Studio 54 in “Call Me Izzy,” a dark comedy about a rural Louisiana woman.
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