Christina Hendricks Sapphic ‘Hacks” Role

5/23/2024

Christina Hendricks & Hannah Einbinder 📺

The 6th episode of Season 3 of the HBO Max series ‘Hacks’ started off with enough lesbian firepower to send Sapphic fans hearts aflutter. This week’s episode, entitled “Par for the Course,” featured an appearance by ‘Mad Men’ star Christina Hendricks. The action starts when Ava, played by Hannah Einbinder, accompanies Deborah (Emmy winner Jean Smart) to a network golf tournament serving as her caddy. While on the green the pair encounter an unnamed “golf queen” who soon casts Ava under her alluring spell. When the two meet up later in the hotel bar sparks fly & they agree to take the action back to the golf queen’s room but things don’t go as either woman had planned. Suffice it to say that sex & politics don’t usually make for good bedfellows.

In an interview with variety.com Hannah Einbinder commented on her character’s infatuation with Hendrick’s, “If there is something gay happening between them, I think Ava also then assumes, ‘If she’s queer, she must be on the right side of things.’ I don’t think it occurs to Ava that she could be Republican — or invested in fracking operations. It’s just assumed, & that’s why that reveal goes down.” Hendricks added, “We’re allowed loosey-goosey morals in the bedroom & behind closed doors, because that’s our decision, & we may behave the opposite of how we behave in the real world. But all of a sudden you bring politics into it, & it’s like, ‘Things just got real. Real fucking fast. I might be able to degrade myself, but I cannot stoop so low as to agree with your politics.’ It’s funny. ”