Actress Hannah Einbinder is making headlines after last night’s Emmy Awards. Einbinder won her first Emmy Award as the “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series” for her role as Ava Daniels in Hacks.
Einbinder was nominated for this award twice in the past to no avail. In her acceptance speech, she acknowledged this.
“I was just really committed to the personal narrative that I have that it was actually cooler to continue to lose,” Einbinder said, “I was pretty committed to that, had to be, right? But this is cool too.”
Einbinder ended her speech with a political message that received both praise and backlash.
Einbinder spoke on President Trump’s mass deportation agenda and the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE raids across the country. These raids have specifically been carried out in major cities like Einbinder’s hometown of Los Angeles. Einbinder also spoke on the conflict in the Middle East.
“I just wanna say, finally, go birds, fuck ICE, and free Palestine,” Eisenburg said in her acceptance speech.
While the profanity was bleeped out, the message was heard loud and clear by viewers and audience members alike.
In the press room after the show, Einbinder expressed the importance of speaking on Palestine to her.
“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 school children to create schools in refugee camps,” she said.
Einbinder went on to defend her position as a Jewish person.
She said, “I feel like it’s 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 really ethnonationalist state.”
This response has already sparked great debate in the news.
Fellow Hacks star Meg Stalter also made a statement on the war in Palestine with her red carpet look. She broke the formal dress code with a T-Shirt and jeans featuring a handbag with the message: ceasefire.
Hacks will begin filming for its fifth and final season next week.
With the show’s consistent award show praise and Einbinder’s passion for bravely speaking out on her beliefs, it will be interesting to see what happens at the Emmys next year.
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