For instance, Hunter Hunter came out and the same thing happened but opposite. What was that like? Playing the "sexy guy" with all these tattoos? This was as close to my every day being, I suppose. On Chucky, I have these weird prosthetics. Over the last two years I've been playing all these weird characters. Well, it's weird reading how many people didn't recognize me until the credits or they didn't recognize me at all until somebody told them. What has it been like watching that unfold on Twitter? It takes people a moment to recognize you and connect the dots in their head. I didn't want to think about a sex symbol or a younger man or anything like that. I wanted it to be just two cool people and interesting conversations. It's the Jack Nicholsons or the Pacinos that are with these younger. We've gone so many years where it's usually the other way. Clearly, there's a 30 year age difference and I didn't know how big of a thing it was until it actually came out and you see all the Twitter comments and people are celebrating it. The agents and whoever I told I was going to be on the show. People kept mentioning it to me and I was like, "Not important to me." I purposely didn't want to think about the age thing. I wanted it to feel really lovely and natural and grounded and organic. I just wanted the scenes to be authentic between two people.
![slash tattoos slash tattoos](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/49/69/4849693fea0e91fa2ac65760401271f2.jpg)
I didn't think about a lot of things purposely. I wanted to think of this as two people on the exact same. You've been a heartthrob and in this you're playing someone who is an object of affection, but on the other side of celebrity. You're working with these well-oiled machines, you know what I mean?
![slash tattoos slash tattoos](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/aa/d0/14aad06382565f8c0feb3938e90d70aa.jpg)
To work with people like that." I remember I did stuff with Sharon Stone and Guy Pearce on different things that felt the same way. You leave set and you go, "That's why I do what I do. Everybody's at the top of their game and we can just be comfortable and it felt safe and we explored and it was amazing. And we've got these well-written scenes on this well-written show. I've been doing this so long and she's been doing this so long and it just felt fun to play with another artist. It felt like a workshop with a really talented artist I respected. She just made it feel very comfortable and it was a lot of fun. And the nerves just went away and we went off and did the car scene and I followed her lead because it's her show.
#SLASH TATTOOS FULL#
I was like, "Are they going to like me? Are they not going to like me? Am I going to be funny? Am I not going to be funny? Should I be funny?" All this was going through my head and I remember Paul, who directed the episode, and the producers came and they knocked and they introduced themselves and I was still nervous.Īn hour went by and I got this knock and I'm like, "Yeah?" And it's like, "Hello, it's Jean." I'm like, "Oh my God! Uh, uh…" So I opened the door and she introduced herself to me and she said, "Welcome," and, "I'm glad you're here," and, "This is going to be so much fun." And she was in full Deborah. I've been doing this a while but because there were so many Emmys involved in this show I got to set and I was in my trailer and I was pacing and my heart was thumping in my chest. But it was a really good part and it was all with Jean Smart and so it was a no-brainer. And I'm like, "What? Sexy FedEx Guy? I'm not playing a Sexy FedEx Guy! I'm going backwards in my career! I'm not doing this." I don't know why they wrote that in there. And then it didn't say Jason, it said Sexy FedEx Guy. When I got the audition for it, it said Hacks. I will be completely honest with you, though. This is one of the shows I do watch because I was able to binge the whole first season in a weekend. Thrillist: How did this role come to you?ĭevon Sawa: I just got lucky. Sawa hopped on Zoom with Thrillist to discuss going head to head with Smart, and surprising fans. (He may be clueless as to who she is, but his roommates are well aware. They have a lovely, intimate night together, and she leaves in the morning, feeling desired and refreshed. This guy, who works at FedEx, genuinely doesn't know she's a comedy superstar. His character's tryst with Smart's Deborah is deeply sexy and blessedly sweet. Sawa, the star of Casper and Final Destination, now has a gravelly voice and is coated in tattoos. You'd be forgiven for doing a double take.
![slash tattoos slash tattoos](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/56/53/e356539a83be554abf8f01aad8549fbb.jpg)
![slash tattoos slash tattoos](https://cdn-ph-web.worldtattoogallery.com/artist--chris-showstoppr--slash-guitarist-hard-rock-tattoo_20018094109.jpg)
Deborah's personal blackjack dealer-slash-friend Kiki (Poppy Liu) explains, nonchalantly, "She's about to get her titties sucked by a 40 year-old." That 40 year-old happens to be played by erstwhile teen heartthrob Devon Sawa. They are in Memphis at a bar with a mechanical bull. In the sixth episode of this season of HBO Max's Hacks, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) wonders where her boss Deborah Vance, played by Jean Smart, has gone.