Hannah Einbinder received her fourth Emmy nomination for her performance in “Hacks” this year.
As with ceremonies past, she didn’t expect to be onstage delivering an acceptance speech.
But there she was on Sunday night, taking the stage (after a musical “Golden Girls” tribute) to accept the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.
And she didn’t waste her moment, calling attention to several subjects close to her heart.
“I was just really committed to the personal narrative that I had that it was actually cooler to continue to lose,” Einbinder began. “I was pretty committed to that. Had to be, right? But, this is cool, too. This is also punk rock.”
She received the honor for her performance as Ava Daniels in the fourth season of “Hacks.”
Ava, a young comedy writer, works with veteran comedian Deborah Vance in the hit HBO Max show co-created by New Jersey’s Paul W. Downs, his wife Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky.
The show, which is headed into production on its fifth season, follows the complex and evolving relationship between Ava and Deborah.
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The showrunners warmly embraced Einbinder, 30, in a group hug when she was announced as the winner. The actor thanked them all in her speech for changing her life “in every conceivable way, but not just by giving me a great gig, but by being my friends and being my family.”
Einbinder’s voice cracked with emotion as she talked about Statsky, Downs and Aniello, then went on to thank Jean Smart, who stars as Deborah.
She said Smart is like the sun — “I just get to stand in her warmth.”
Smart won her fourth lead-actress-in-a-comedy Emmy for the role Sunday after first winning for the show in 2021. It was her seventh career Emmy (her first was a guest actress win for “Frasier” in 2000).
Host Nate Bargatze set a time limit on acceptance speeches at the start of the Emmys ceremony, telling the audience that for each second an award winner went over the time limit, $1,000 would be deducted from the $100,000 he was donating to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Noticing that her time had run out, Einbinder pledged to “pay the difference” for running over as the donations dropped down to $80,000.
“I just wanna say, finally, go Birds, f— ICE and Free Palestine. Thank you!”
Einbinder, a devotee of the Philadelphia Eagles, has publicly criticized the Israeli government, including during a previous acceptance speech earlier this year.
“As a queer person, as a Jewish person and as an American, I am horrified by the Israeli government’s massacre of well over 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza,” Einbinder said in March when she was honored by the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ civil rights group.
“I am ashamed and infuriated that this mass murder is funded by our American tax dollars,” she said. “It should not be controversial to say that we should all be against murdering civilians.”
The Jewish American actor, who is bisexual, accepted the organization’s visibility award.
“My queerness is a tradition of social justice, as is my Judaism,” Einbinder said at the event.
“To me, these are traditions of humanity, of care for human life. All human life, equally.”
In the same March speech, Einbinder spoke out against the rise of fascism and the loss of free speech in connection with the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
At a press conference after the Emmys, Einbinder, who wore a red Artists for Ceasefire pin, was asked about her mention of Palestine at the end of her speech.
“I thought it was important to talk about Palestine because it’s an issue that’s very dear to my heart,” she said in a video shared by The Hollywood Reporter. “I have friends in Gaza who are working as frontline workers, as doctors, right now in the north of Gaza to provide care for pregnant women and for schoolchildren to create schools in the refugee camps.”
“I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel, because our religion and our culture is such an important and longstanding, basically, like, institution that is really separate to this sort of ethno-nationalist state.”
Einbinder is one of many actors who have pledged not to work with Israeli film institutions who are in support of or complicit in the current actions by the Israeli government.
Boycotting, she said, is an “effective tool to create pressure on the powers that be to meet the moment.”
In February, Einbinder, daughter of original “Saturday Night Live” cast member Laraine Newman, won a Critics Choice Award for playing Ava in “Hacks.”
Last year, “Hacks,” which premiered in 2021, won the Emmy for outstanding comedy series, beating Emmys juggernaut “The Bear” (whose comedy status is often called into question, as it was in this year’s ceremony by Bargatze).
READ MORE: Emmy winner Paul W. Downs talks about ‘Hacks’ and his N.J. comedy awakening
This year, the show was again nominated for best comedy series, while Aniello was nominated for directing and Aniello, Downs and Statsky were nominated for writing. Downs, who grew up in Sussex, plays Jimmy LuSaque Jr., manager to Deborah and Ava in the show.
The fourth season of “Hacks” sees Ava and Deborah clash behind the scenes of Deborah’s late-night show before they go on to fight bigger demons.
At the Creative Arts Emmys, Julianne Nicholson won the Emmy for guest actress in a comedy series for her performance as the show’s TikTok-famous Dance Mom, who proves to be an unpredictable late-night guest.
Robby Hoffman, who plays Randi in the show, was also nominated for guest actress.
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