‘I was born without self-esteem’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, her buzzy queer horror – and being Hollywood’s most outspoken star

The Hacks lead was cast in meta-slasher sensation Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma for her ‘deranged physicality’ – but it’s a fitting role for an actor who has made a point of confronting shame and speaking her mind ‘God is good all the time,” laughs Hannah Einbinder. She’s fresh off a plane from Los Angeles and curled up barefoot in an armchair. This, she says, is “a crazy time in life. Starring in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma in the midst of Hacks ending … it’s definitely an embarrassment of riches.” Hacks is the HBO comedy that ended earlier this year; in May, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun’s queer meta-horror, became the breakout hit of this year’s Cannes film festival. In the film, Einbinder plays a film-maker, Kris, who becomes consumed by her obsession with Billy Presley, the reclusive star of the original Camp Miasma slasher franchise – played with hypnotic wit and sensuality by Gillian Anderson. What begins as an attempt to persuade Presley to return to the series spirals into an ecstasy of sex, death, VHS tapes and junk food. Scene by scene, the lines between reality and fantasy begin to collapse. “When my