Watch: Natasha Lyonne & Hannah Einbinder joke about scissoring & talk realistic queer sex scenes

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Gay fave Natasha Lyonne and bisexual Hacks actress Hannah Einbinder just made the Hollywood Reporter's latest actor's roundtable delightfully queer with a hilarious scissoring joke, and just in time for Pride Month, too!
Lyonne and Einbinder joined fellow stars Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along), Jessica Williams (Shrinking), Kristen Bell (The Good Place), and Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex) to talk about their careers and personal lives when the conversation veered toward LGBTQ+ representation in media.
When asked what the actors have pushed for 'because it was something you needed to see at some point in your life,' Einbinder chimed in about her own experience being a bi actor after calling Lyonne her 'freaking queer icon.'
Einbinder, who plays Ava Daniels on Hacks, credited the show with giving 'vivid life and a reality' to the bisexual character.
'We know that when people write to their own experience, something is just far more lived-in,' Einbinder said. 'And as a queer actor myself playing a queer character, I can add my, you know, zest. So, this season, there's a polyamory arc that is not the butt of a joke.'
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She said that there were queer shows and movie that paved the way for Hacks, but she's proud of the realistic representation the show provides. 'It warms my heart when I get messages from people who feel like this is an in-depth and non-fetishized representation of bisexuality,' Einbinder revealed.
Then, Lyonne asked, 'Do you feel like this kind of a queer component is something that you've slowly laid in track for, or was it always embedded?'
'Oh, it's always been there. A lot of our writers room are writing to their own experiences. Everyone who's telling a story has an incredibly talented comedy writer to represent that lived experience,' Einbinder answered.
The 30-year-old actress explained because of her own lived experience as a queer person she's able to point out places in the script that seem realistic.
'And it's this great symbiosis where, because I live a queer existence, I'm able to lend various [ideas], like, 'Well, I don't know if they would be, like, coming at the same time in the shower. Perhaps, like, one person is topping.''
Not one to let a good joke pass her by, while Einbinder said 'one person is topping,' the But I'm a Cheerleader star made the universal hand gesture for scissoring by making peace signs with both hands and then sliding them together.
Trust Lyonne to always make the perfect sapphic joke!