Dan Bucatinsky details his cherished bond with Hacks co-stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder

The curtain has closed on another season of “Hacks.”Dan Bucatinsky, who plays Rob, the executive producer of “Late Night with Deborah Vance,” on the comedy/drama, is getting candid on wrapping Season 4 — and the best part of filming the Max series.“It was the relationship that I was able to form with Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder,” the actor, 59, exclusively told The Post at the 2025 Astra Awards.“That friendship is one that I will cherish.

Being able to get to know them off camera, then get to play with them on camera, was a dream.”“So much of my job on that show was playing the guy whose job it was to wrangle these two forces,” Bucatinsky explained.“I’m a dad of two, so I was playing dad a little bit on the show as well.

But the gift really was being part of that community that felt very strong both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.”The show follows the friendship between Smart, 73, who stars as legendary Las Vegas comic Deborah Vance, and comedy writer Ava Daniels, who is played by Einbinder, 30.“They move very, very fast, and there is so much material being shot, and they are shooting multiple episodes at the same time,” he explained to the Post.As for their downtime, the “Scandal” alum and his costars “would hang out in this little greenroom area” by their chairs.“We would talk.

We would keep each other warm,” he recalled.“We would go get tea.

We would go get snacks.We would ask each other advice about everything.

Recommendations of movies and documentaries and doctors.And talk about our kids and our pets.

And it was really an opportunity in between scenes to really get to know one another.”“Hacks” has been renewed for Season 5, with Smart recently expressing why she thinks it’s a good time to wrap up Deborah Vance’s story.“I think we’ve pretty much decided that five seasons is [it], and I think that would feel right,” she told E! News earlier this month.“You never want to ov...