We chat with PokerFace star and EP nlyonne about how she and Rian Johnson bonded, why she needed to take on this series, and what motivates Charlie:
Natasha Lyonne leads Rian Johnson's newest addition to the mystery genre, pulling double duty as the star and an executive producer of Poker Face. The new series follows Charlie Cale as she sets off on the road, coming across different mysteries and a unique cast of characters in each episode. With an uncanny ability as a human lie detector, Charlie can't help but investigate these crimes when she sees that something isn't right and people are keeping secrets.
Natasha Lyonne: Yeah, and thank you. I love it when Rian says, "It's not a 'whodunit,' it's a 'how catch 'em'." Rian and I became friends through his brilliant wife, Karina Longworth, because I was opposite her on an episode of her podcast. I have this production company with Maya Rudolph called Animal Pictures, and so we just became friends.
And so we just had a lot of fun communicating in this very particular way. And so we really were kind of dreaming it all up, but then he really put pen to paper. And a year later he sent me this script, and it was just a beautiful self-contained puzzle box, and all this stuff was there. And at that point it just really felt like it was so personal to us. It was our special little thing that we were going to make. And I just really love this dude. I'm a Rian Johnson head honey.
I know that you have a cameo in the Glass Onion. I know it says Natasha there, but is it possible that that could be Charlie and that this could all be connected into the same universe with Knives Out and Glass Onion?
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