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<\/p>\n\n\tThis week\u2019s Take Ten guests are beloved Hacks duo Paul W. Downs and Megan Stalter. <\/p>\n
\n\tApril 9th will bring the fifth and final season of the HBO Max hit comedy series and Deadline sat down with Stalter, who plays maverick talent agent Kayla, and Downs, the co-showrunner who does double-duty as Jimmy, Kayla\u2019s put-upon, ever-tolerant business partner.<\/p>\n
\n\tTo kick things off, Downs asked, \u201cMeg, what\u2019s the most Kayla thing about you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI feel like we both are really who we are, and there\u2019s a certain free-spirit-ness,\u201d Stalter said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cNo one is more free than Meg, except maybe Kayla. Kayla might be the only person freer than you,\u201d Downs added. <\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tMegan Stalter as Kayla and Paul W. Downs as Jimmy in Season 5 of \u2018Hacks\u2019.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHBO Max<\/p>\n
\n\tAt the start of Season 5, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) is concerned because Deborah (Jean Smart) was seen wearing Crocs outside\u2014 a sure sign of an imminent breakdown. So what would be crossing the line for Kayla? \u201cI like to wear a lot of wigs on the red carpet,\u201d Stalter said. \u201cI feel like, if you saw me in a wig, like in the grocery store, that would be scary, because it would seem like I was in some sort of hiding. Maybe I thought that I was more famous than I am, or maybe I was just sad and need to be cheered up\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWhich brought us onto the fact that Downs and Stalter famously (infamously?) wore coordinating orange outfits at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this year\u2014 just like Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Kylie Jenner. Would they call this cosplay and if so, what\u2019s their next Halloween outfit plan?<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe were wearing outfits we planned on wearing, and then they wore the same outfits a couple weeks before,\u201d Stalter said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSo OK, fine,\u201d Downs deadpanned. \u201cAre we gonna change our outfits? No. Don\u2019t change yourself for someone else. I would say, be yourself, and those were ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tStalter added, \u201cKylie, I feel like\u2026 after we did the outfit, she wants to act, which probably means that she wants to meet us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tL to R: Megan Stalter, Robbie Hoffman and Paul W. Downs in Season 5 of \u2018Hacks\u2019.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHBO Max<\/p>\n
\n\tThe pair agreed they should join forces with Chalamet and Jenner, \u201cplay Settlers of Catan\u201d and possibly \u201cdo a big movie\u201d together.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs for what the future holds for Jimmy and Kayla, Stalter told Downs, \u201cI did tell you the other day I could see Kayla becoming a famous pop star in a different country, and that\u2019s just something that popped in my head. And I feel like they\u2019re in each other\u2019s lives forever. I think like they definitely fall in love with people and then there\u2019s some jealousy there. Then then I can imagine them living on the same block, watching each other\u2019s kids all the time.\u201d Cue slightly panicked expression from Jimmy\/Downs.<\/p>\n
\n\tTo find out more, including their go-to karaoke duet, the things co-star Robby Hoffman says that make them crack up on set and whether Jimmy would really help Kayla to bury a body, watch the full episode of Take Ten above.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeason 5 of Hacks\u00a0debuts Thursday, April\u00a09\u00a0at 6 PM PT\/9 PM\u00a0ET\u00a0on HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s Take Ten guests are beloved Hacks duo Paul W. Downs and Megan Stalter. April 9th will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,23917,23918,3484,190723,190724,111,139,69,190725,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-362558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hacks","10":"tag-hannah-einbinder","11":"tag-hbo-max","12":"tag-jean-smart","13":"tag-megan-stalter","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-paul-w-downs","18":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}