Hannah Einbinder may be finding herself typecast in an unexpected niche.
After wrapping five seasons of Hacks — with her Ava Daniels navigating the many highs and lows of working with and befriending Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance — Einbinder is now starring in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and once again navigating a complicated relationship with an older woman.
The film, from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun, follows a queer director (Einbinder) tasked with making a slasher franchise sequel, who becomes obsessed with casting the original film’s “final girl” (played by Gillian Anderson) in her project. When they meet, however, both women are thrown into psychological and sexual chaos.
“There’s a Sabrina Carpenter lyric [in her song “Manchild”] like ‘I swear they choose me, I’m not choosing them.’ People just come to me and I happen to respond to it,” Einbinder joked with The Hollywood Reporter of the trend in her recent projects. “I love it, I’m all for it.”
Einbinder said she looked to the “psychosexual canon” of Secretary, The Duke of Burgundy and David Cronenberg’s Crash for inspiration in playing her and Anderson’s relationship, while Anderson had to go through an education in final girls — a trope in horror movies for the last surviving female character who confronts the killer.
