Hannah Einbinder thought she was being written out of a job.
She was reading through the script for the second-season finale of Hacks, the award-winning HBO series for which she’d received an Emmy nomination. In one pivotal scene, her character—caustic Gen Z comic Ava—was going to be fired by her boss, the legendary comedian Deborah Vance (played by Jean Smart). During her first year on the show, Einbinder had grappled with an intense case of imposter syndrome: It was her first acting role and she frequently felt out of her depth, like a lottery winner with a new BMW and no driver’s license. The Emmy nomination for her work on the first season of the show didn’t help. “The Academy’s sad for me,” she convinced herself. “They feel bad for me, they’re giving me a nomination.”
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