Accepting her first career Emmy win in the supporting actress comedy category, “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder concluded her speech with a few parting words.
The 30-year-old Los Angeles native cheered the Philadelphia Eagles (who won their football game against the Kansas City Chiefs earlier in the day), before calling out immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and supporting the pro-Palestinian movement.
“Go birds, (expletive) ICE and free Palestine,” she yelled at the Peacock Theater on Sunday, Sept. 14.
Einbinder’s speech went over the recommended 45-second limit, causing host Nate Bargatze’s $100,000 donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to drop by a few thousand dollars. However, she assured during her speech that she would pay the difference.
Hannah Einbinder accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award for “Hacks” onstage during the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 14, 2025.
At the start of the ceremony, Bargatze said it was his idea to incentivize winners to keep their speeches short with his donation idea.
“Every second you go over, we take away $1,000 from the Boys & Girls Club,” Bargartze previously told USA TODAY in an interview. “I’m not taking it away. It’s you, if you want to thank your agent and your fifth agent and all this kind of stuff.”
Einbinder has been nominated four different times for her role as comedy writer Ava Daniels. However, the 77th Primetime Emmys on Sunday marked her first time winning alongside costar Jean Smart, who accepted her fourth win for the HBO series.
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Hannah Einbinder Emmy speech: ‘Hacks’ star elaborates backstage
Backstage, Einbinder explained why she felt it was necessary to address Gaza during her speech.
She told reporters that she has friends who are frontline workers in northern Gaza providing medical treatment to Palestinians in need, from school children to pregnant women.
“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 institution that is really separate to this sort of ethno-nationalist state,” she said in the pressroom.
She also expressed support for Film Workers for Palestine’s pledge, signed by more than 4,000 other Hollywood talent vowing to boycott Israeli film institutions amid the Middle Eastern country’s military campaign in Gaza.
She echoed the advocacy group’s intention, adding that the pledge “does not boycott individuals. It only boycotts institutions that are complicit in genocide.”
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“Hacks” actor Megan Stalter and “F1” actor Javier Bardem were among the stars who wore red Artists4Ceasefire pins on the Emmys red carpet, calling for an end to Israel’s military assault.
Aligning with the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Bardem called for a commercial and diplomatic blockade as well as sanctions on Israel. The Middle Eastern country’s assault on Gaza has killed more than 64,000 people since October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
“How many hundreds of thousands of dead children need to suffer for people to wake up?” Bardem told USA TODAY on the carpet Sunday, Sept. 14.
The award show comes after more than 4,000 filmmakers signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions led by advocacy group Film Workers for Palestine.
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