‘Hacks’ Star Carl Clemons-Hopkins Sees Marcus as a ‘Modern-Day Parable’ of Work-Life Balance

The actor breaks down Season 3, Episode 8’s “beautiful” Pride moment

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Marcus (Carl Clemons-Hopkins) in "Hacks" Season 3 (Photo Credit: Max)

Three seasons in, and “Hacks” continued to unveil more layers of the straight-laced and ever-responsible Marcus. Turns out, he’s a Deborah Vance superfan hiding in plain sight.

Carl Clemons-Hopkins, the actor behind Marcus, loved the reveal.

“I feel like that superfan kid got a bit jaded and a bit covered with the actual day-to-day that is [running] the Deborah Vance brand,” Clemons-Hopkins told TheWrap of his Season 3 arc.

Though “Hacks” spends most of its time dissecting the complicated working relationship between Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder), the character with the most interesting career journey has long been Marcus.

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