Jean Smart knows what people have been saying about her career lately. She just wishes they wouldn’t use the term “Jeanaissance” when doing so. Type that into any search engine, and numerous posts …
knows what people have been saying about her career lately. She just wishes they wouldn’t use the term “Jeanaissance” when doing so.
The role perfectly showcases Smart’s range, mixing comedy and drama with both hilarious, over-the-top scenes and deep, soul-searching moments as Deborah struggles to maintain relevance in a world that is moving on without her. If there’s any sort of throughline in the characters Smart has excelled at playing in recent years, it’s strong women with just enough vulnerability to make them positively human — and completely relatable.
Meanwhile, on “Hacks,” Smart stood firm on a joke that she found a bit graphic and asked the show’s producers that it be changed. She felt horrible about it though. “We kind of had a little disagreement for a couple of days,” she says. “And I was really depressed because I felt like, ‘Oh, they loved me, and now they hate me. You just blew it, Jean; the honeymoon’s over.’ But it was fine.”
Smart remembers how, two days before moving to New York to try her hand at Broadway, her mom watched the TV movie “Hustling.” In it, Jill Clayburgh played a prostitute in New York, “and a couple of guys beat the crap out of her in the movie,” Smart recalls. “My mother got so upset, she didn’t want me to go!”
“That cast was extraordinary, and yet Jean was able to blaze her own path and make the character of Charlene so authentic and unforgettable,” Bloodworth says. “I kind of wince when somebody writes that Jean Smart is the ‘Meryl Streep of comedy.’ Jean isn’t anybody else’s name of anything. She’s the Jean Smart of everything — comedy, drama, all of it.”
“It’s such nice nostalgia, and makes me appreciate the show more,” Smart says, while sharing Burke’s concerns. But don’t bring up any idea for a reboot. “Doing it without Dixie [Carter, who died in 2010] would be ridiculous.” In the early 2000s, Smart received her first two Emmys: back-to-back guest actress wins for her role as Kelsey Grammer’s brash love interest in “Frasier.” It’s still one of her favorite TV experiences. “The character was just so much fun, just her, the way she’d turn on a dime with her anger issues,” Smart says. “She could be sweet as pie, and then just become a harridan instantly.
But Hawley once again rang, and cast Smart as a therapist to the mutants in “Legion.” “There was never anything that [Hawley] wrote that was just for the sake of being strange or gratuitous, ever,” she says. “It was always something very thought out and very specific. And he knew exactly where he was going with it. So it was very freeing, then, to just kind of let go and let it take me wherever.”
“I thought, what am I doing?” Smart recalls. “My husband was home to care for the littlest one and the other one was a teenager, but I took it very seriously and I flew home almost twice a week every week. I had to. I wouldn’t have felt right about not doing that. I just wanted my child to know, Mom’s still here, you know? That mommy guilt is a tough one. Because then you feel like everything’s getting short shrift.
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