The curtain has closed on one other season of “Hacks.”
Dan Bucatinsky, who performs Rob, the chief producer of “Late Night with Deborah Vance,” on the comedy/drama, is getting candid on wrapping Season 4 — and the most effective a part of filming the Max collection.
“It was the relationship that I was able to form with Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder,” the actor, 59, solely instructed The Submit on the 2025 Astra Awards. “That friendship is one that I will cherish. Being able to get to know them off camera, then get to play with them on camera, was a dream.”
“So much of my job on that show was playing the guy whose job it was to wrangle these two forces,” Bucatinsky defined. “I’m a dad of two, so I was playing dad a little bit on the show as well. But the gift really was being part of that community that felt very strong both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.”
The present follows the friendship between Good, 73, who stars as legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance, and comedy author Ava Daniels, who’s performed by Einbinder, 30.
“They move very, very fast, and there is so much material being shot, and they are shooting multiple episodes at the same time,” he defined to the Submit.
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As for his or her downtime, the “Scandal” alum and his costars “would hang out in this little greenroom area” by their chairs.
“We would talk. We would keep each other warm,” he recalled. “We would go get tea. We would go get snacks. We would ask each other advice about everything. Recommendations of movies and documentaries and doctors. And talk about our kids and our pets. And it was really an opportunity in between scenes to really get to know one another.”
“Hacks” has been renewed for Season 5, with Good not too long ago expressing why she thinks it’s a superb time to wrap up Deborah Vance’s story.
“I think we’ve pretty much decided that five seasons is [it], and I think that would feel right,” she instructed E! Information earlier this month. “You never want to overstay your welcome.”
Good’s portrayal earned her three consecutive Emmys for Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy Sequence, two Golden Globe Awards for Finest Actress in a Tv Sequence Musical or Comedy and three SAG Awards for Excellent Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Comedy Sequence.
Bucatinsky, in the meantime, additionally has one other onscreen function in thoughts.
“I want to play a villain,” he instructed The Submit. “I want to play a criminal, a villain or a cop. Maybe not a cop that is a criminal or a villain, but why not?”
For “The Comeback” alum, he would like to star reverse in a felony cop thriller with a handful of A-listers.
“I loved working with Corey Hawkins so much on ’24: Legacy.’ I’d love to work with him again. But Lisa Kudrow has been a friend and partner of mine for 20 years, so I always love working with her again,” Bucatinsky detailed. “I’ve really been lucky to work with a lot of great, strong women, and I really hope that continues because I am a fan of so many. Kristen Bell. I’d love to work with Kristen.”
Prime-notch craft service tables are vital to him, too. And his favourite was on “The Post,” which was directed by Steven Spielberg.
“I think that he managed to make an unbelievable craft service that I had never seen before,” he mentioned of Spielberg on set of the 2017 movie that instructed the story of The Washington Submit exposing the Pentagon Papers. “It was like being in a restaurant every single night and every single day and at lunch! It was exciting. And you’d expect nothing less from Spielberg and Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. It better be good.”
Lately, when Bucatinksy isn’t performing in a success tv present, he’s watching Bravo’s “Housewives” franchise.
The “Under the Tuscan Sun” vet weighed in on Garcelle Beauvais leaving “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” after 5 seasons and Rachel Zoe asserting she is becoming a member of the solid for Season 15.
“Every season is an opportunity for a new piece of chemistry that either will work or it will explode and I’m sure they are hoping it will explode,” he said.
“I’m a big fan. I’ve watched for years, and years, and years. I’m friends with some of them. I’m friends with Garcelle. So, I’m rooting for the franchise, and I’m rooting for all the women.”
