bisexual
Covid-19
2020
Star
‘Hacks’ Star Hannah Einbinder Says Being Heckled as a Bisexual Comedian ‘Has Created a Thicker Skin for Me’
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIt’s highly unlikely that Hannah Einbinder will ever forget her auditions for “Hacks.” Not only did it land her the role of Ava opposite Jean Smart, but the entire process happened during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.“I went into a physical casting office in Santa Monica a couple days before March 13th, 2020, that initial COVID lockdown,” Einbinder tells me on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I read with someone in the office and, a couple days later, COVID hit and I found out that I was going to do a callback, but that they didn’t know how it was going to happen.