'Mare of Easttown' Star Jean Smart Reveals What She Thought About SNL's 'Murder Durder' Parody

Jean Smart is sharing her thoughts!

The actress spoke with comedian Bowen Yang for Variety‘s Actors on Actors series and the pair discussed her role in Mare of Easttown and Saturday Night Live‘s parody of the show from a few weeks ago.

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Bowen began the conversation by asking Jean what is was like playing a standup comedian on her new HBO Max series Hacks.

“I always thought it would be fun to be a standup comic, but I always also thought it would be incredibly terrifying,” she shared. “You’re kind of living one of my fantasies. I get to do it for pretend. The audience that I have has been paid to laugh at me.”

“In some ways, that’s comforting, right? The fear of failure isn’t quite as present. Although I’m sure maybe it is,” Bowen replied.

“I remember a couple scenes, getting nervous before going onstage. Most of the time, I didn’t have any audience at all. But when we did have a little audience, I started getting nervous. And I thought, ‘Why are you nervous? They didn’t have to buy a ticket,’” she laughed.

Jean also revealed she was a huge fan of SNL’s Mare of Easttown parody, “Murder Durder“!

“Kate [Winslet] sent it to me,” Jean said of the sketch. “It was hysterical!”

Check out their full conversation below!

The creators of Hacks recently shared what their plans for season 2 of the show are after that massive cliffhanger in the season 1 finale.