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Knives Out's Benoit Blanc and Poker Face's Charlie Cale utilizing their mixed powers of deduction and bulls— detecting to unravel a thriller collectively? Natasha Lyonne says she can be down.
After a extremely acclaimed first season, Poker Face 2.0 began streaming Thursday on Peacock with its first three episodes. It as soon as once more sees Lyonne's Charlie — a lady with an inhuman capacity to at all times know when somebody is mendacity — on the run from bother, fixing unusual mysteries at each pit cease.
Season 2 of the collection — which was created by Knives Out mastermind Rian Johnson — could have simply began, but it surely's by no means too late to plan for the long run. And when Leisure Weekly asks concerning the potential to possibly sooner or later convey Poker Face to the large display screen, Lyonne, who additionally writes, directs, and government produces the present, has some ideas.
"Yeah, it's one thing really I'd like to do. I might like to do a Knives Out, Poker Face crossover film," she says. Then, in typical Lyonne trend, her thoughts begins taking part in the chances. She jokingly suggests she'd prefer to get "The Pink Panther" concerned, or on the very least let composer Henry Mancini rating the factor, nevermind the truth that he died in 1994.
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Jokes apart, Lyonne sincerely desires to do extra motion pictures. "I'd love a decade of creating motion pictures. I miss motion pictures rather a lot, so I'm excited to make some, I feel, as a result of they're enjoyable. I cherished His Three Daughters and I like this film I'm working with Brit Marling on now [Lyonne's feature directorial debut, Uncanny Valley], and I miss 'em. They're enjoyable."
For his half, Johnson admits making a Poker Face movie of some form "can be a blast," however it will be form of antithetical to why he needed to do a TV collection within the first place. "The enjoyable a part of doing this present for me is throwing again to the real pleasures of Quantum Leap and The A-Workforce and Homicide, She Wrote and stuff that in my thoughts is TV — simply what I keep in mind as a 10-year-old sitting in entrance of the tv set and watching," he says.
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He continues: "There's an absence of preciousness to it that offers you permission to do a meth gator episode or to say, 'Yeah, let's do one in grade faculty,' and that to me can be a part of the joys and the pleasure of what drives the writing technique of the present. In different phrases, if immediately it was, 'Oh my God, we're going to spend a bunch of cash making a film, and that is going to be the one factor [we do],' that's somewhat counter to the very nature of the present itself."
If anybody might determine that puzzle although, it's Johnson, who's gearing up for the discharge of the third thriller within the starry Knives Out movie franchise, Wake Up Useless Man, later this 12 months. And when EW tells him about Lyonne's obvious curiosity, he laughs. "You could be our in-between," he tells us. "You may work out." Think about EW formally on the case.
For extra with Lyonne and Johnson, try EW's Poker Face cover story.
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