in the middle of the course of Feature reporting upon peacockFun upcoming mystery series poker facegot much more material from the creators Ryan Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne Than fit comfortably. As a bonus, here are some highlights from the rest of the conversation.
last week, johnson digging deep On the fun and challenge of giving Lyonne’s character Charlie Cale the ability to tell when someone is lying. So start talking to the actress. Yeah, but I love bullshit.
What is the difference between bullshit and bullshit?
Bullshit A fully shared human being who sucks or lies.Bullshit Shooting shit and joking. gibberish, speak it. I have a silly concept floating around and killing time.
Earlier, you seemed quite surprised to hear that every other person I interviewed called you one of the smartest people they’d ever met.
Alan, but I’m not good with shapes. If you give me a simple jigsaw puzzle for kids, put the edge in the middle of the puzzle. I lost my way. Do not know. I am completely self-taught. So I’m pretty thorough about the subject I’m interested in. And thanks to those street smarts, I can glean a healthy dose of things pretty seamlessly. So I think it means that scientific, artistic, interpersonal, theological and philosophical concepts can be handled quite organically. I’ve seen the world split into itself while drinking acid as a teenager reading Nietzsche.or was watching clockwork orange many times as a child. I don’t know what to say to you my ego likes it Because it’s the trait that I value the most. Along with the humor, it’s really my favourite.
The persona you are on camera today and your off-camera persona are very different than they were early in your career. You’re getting older, is there a way you can express yourself more with Joe Pesci / Andrew Dice Clay jokes than you used to?
Do not know. In many ways, I think my voice has changed. Honestly, it scares me. I am not fascinated by it. I smoke so much that I almost end up becoming Harvey Fierstein/Elizabeth Ashley against my will.There was that Jay Leno a bit It recently went viral and I saw myself about it and Oh my god, I was like this before I smoked. But I remember my accent was the problem [directors] Tamara Jenkins, Woody Allen and Jamie Babbitt. it was always a problem.had a casting director new york city He showed me this weird old video of a New York actor who auditioned for him and made it. And I was very happy to be in that group. But then Uma Thurman comes out and she’s a goddess at 17. She wears a mock turtleneck and her hair looks like she hasn’t been brushed in a year. And start speaking with the thickest New York accent you’ve ever seen. And I’m talking about punching someone in the lunch line. Jesus Christ! No wonder I didn’t get those jobs! But do you feel I have a New York accent now?
Your accent right now we’re talking about is much less noticeable than your role.
I think this is how you talk.Also, I think my accent is not very pronounced poker face than russian dollBut I’m afraid to speak in public. Talk shows scare me. That’s why I think that when you’re scared, your accent becomes thicker.in both Season 1 and Season 2 of russian doll, I hate it so I spent a lot of time editing to reduce my accent. But I guess I’m just getting older, honey. But when I get nervous, I go to New York to protect myself from strangers.
Clea DuVall said one of the reasons you became friends was because in the ’90s and early ’20s, she didn’t feel like business suited young women. What were those years like?
Claire is really nice. We are both orphans so we really have each other. At Claire’s wedding, I’m like the best man, or the dad who lets her go.It’s been pretty wild going through this evolution from ’90s indie to showrunner to creator to writer to director. We are both very dark, dark horses, so it makes no sense at all. In the 90s, I think we were a pair of terrible ingenuity. Looking at these pictures of us when we were teenagers, we were pretty hot and no one knew what to do with us. did not. We were just weird. they knew it. we knew that. And I felt sick all the time. I think it was distorted Maybe something is broken outside of us. And it really drives you crazy as a young woman. But the truth is, I think there was something wrong with us internally. Similarly, our internals were so fully loaded that it didn’t really make sense with these narrow parameters. In fact, the times have caught up with us. If we were teenagers now, we’d be crushed. We’d be cool kids. This generation really likes Outsiders as the main event. Our days, as you remember, were cookie cutters enough to cut a cookie, like “Let’s stand against the Aryan Nation!” It was a dark time to be a weirdo in showbiz. And I am very grateful to watch that change. Also because I find it terribly boring. Honey, they’ll never get as good as Joan Blondell. So keep moving.
Leanne, Claire and Chloe Sevigny say they’ve never seemed happier than when they’re directing. do you think that is fair?
Yeah, I feel like Bob Fosse. And I mean speed. I like having an orchestra. I like conducting. And I think my weirdo life set me up nicely to really enjoy seeing the intensity of the situation. It is very natural for me to feel that i love actors I am obsessed with aesthetics. I’m a movie buff and have a good understanding of shots and blocking. Seeing it all come together brings a deep, deep joy to my soul. Feel your feet in the right position. And no matter how stressful it is, or how people are obsessed with the lights, I genuinely enjoy it. like an honest day job for a paycheck. I like having to use my brain to its fullest, in many directions at once. I find it very comfortable, and a white noise-like sensation comes over my body.
I’ve been into movies all my life — ok this is weird but you actually slowly peeled all the skin off my body for reasons I don’t know and you were what I was made of inside If you want to know, just look at the tons of images glued together from all these classic movies. are not experiencing the downsides of nicotine. That’s what celluloid means. And I love problem solving. And I love to improvise. And, despite my seemingly eccentric personality, I am a very relentless workaholic and a very precise perfectionist. That’s why I love careful preparation and precision. I like very clear parameters and fill the frames within them with as much information as possible. But I don’t really like lawless mess.If you’ve been to my house, my bed is always made up. I just have big hair. That’s the best I can do. And I think it can mislead people. But I really, really love the director. All my heroes are directors. I love acting. But what I love about acting is that it’s like being a musician. I like the idea of Rian being the composer and telling me which parts of the songs I can play along with his albums. And I want to do everything I can for him. But with all sorts of combinations with writing and producing and with the current director, it’s been a lot of fun creating the pages on set and fixing them in real time with the actors. I also love obsessively looking at my schedule and figuring it out. I love being involved in editing and the feeling when a song or score lands correctly in a sequence and ties it together is a very enjoyable experience. increase. And I like not feeling dead inside of me.