Jean Smart Reveals the Item She Stole from Her “Hacks” Character Deborah Vance’s Home (Exclusive)
Jean Smart Reveals the Item She Stole from Her “Hacks” Character Deborah Vance’s Home (Exclusive)
Colson Thayer, Abby SternFri, April 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM UTC
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Jean Hacks attends the Los Angeles premiere of 'Hacks' season 5 in April 8.Credit: Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic -
Jean Smart may be saying goodbye to her role as Deborah Vance in Hacks, but there is one set piece she is taking with her
Smart admits to PEOPLE she took Deborah Vance's drapes as a keepsake for her own home
Meanwhile, costar Hannah Einbinder kept her character's driver's license, credit card, hospital bracelet and clothes
Jean Smart may be hanging up Deborah Vance's sequins, but she isn't leaving the Hacks set empty-handed.
During the season 5 premiere of the Emmy Award-winning dramedy in Los Angeles on April 8, PEOPLE caught up with the 74-year-old actress about the ending of the show.
“Somebody just reminded me, ‘Well, this is your last premiere for Deborah.' I was like, oh my God, all these lasts. All these firsts and now we have all these lasts. It's weird,” Smart shared, calling the event "very bittersweet."
The actress, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series four times for her performance, also reflected on her final few days on set.
Jean Smart as Deborah Vance inside her character's home on an episode of 'Hacks.'Credit: Courtesy of HBO Max
“We'd be shooting a scene and they'd go, ‘Okay, that's a wrap on Deborah's bedroom.' You go, ‘Whoa, what? That's one of my favorite rooms on the whole set. This is the last time?'” she recalls. “Then they go, ‘Okay, that's a wrap on Deborah's kitchen.' I was like, ‘No, no, no, this island is mine! This is my fantasy island.'”
But luckily for Smart, there was one set piece she was able to sneak away.
“Is HBO listening?” Smart teases before revealing she took “some drapes” from her character's bedroom.
As for where they're going now, Smart reveals, “to my bedroom!"
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The Designing Women actress wasn't the only one to nab something from the set. Hannah Einbinder, who plays Ava Daniels, tells PEOPLE she also kept some of her character's belongings.
Hannah Einbinder attends the Los Angeles premiere of 'Hacks' season 5 on April 8.Credit: Savion Washington/WireImage
“I took [Ava's] driver's license and her credit card and her hospital bracelet, and a lot of her clothes” the Emmy-winner, 30, says, adding she keeps the small items “safe” in her “little jewelry box.”
Show creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky even kept some mementos of their own.
'Hacks' show creators Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello attend the Los Angeles premiere of season 5 on April 8.Credit: Araya Doheny/Getty
“A lot of stuff,” Aniello tells PEOPLE of the things she nabbed.
“We took pepper shakers from Deborah's salt and pepper shaker [collection],” Downs, who plays Jimmy LuSaque Jr. in the series, says referring to Vance's large array of kitchen accessories.
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The fifth and final season of Hacks premiered on Thursday, April 9, on HBO Max and will pick up “in the aftermath of mistaken and unflattering new reports” that Deborah died, per an official synopsis. She and Ava “return to Las Vegas more determined than ever to secure Deborah's legacy as a comedian."
New episodes of Hacks drop Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET. on HBO Max.
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