Additionally they share particulars on Cynthia Erivo becoming a member of the present and enjoying a number of characters in Season 2 — earlier than Johnson reveals who to be careful for within the upcoming third installment of Knives Out, Wake Up Lifeless Man.
When you have been struggling to come up with Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson for a task on Poker Face, it’s possible you’ll be calling the flawed quantity.
Whereas strolling the purple carpet to have a good time Season 2 of the Peacock collection, each Lyonne and Johnson opened as much as TooFab how they go about casting the collection — which is filled with movie star cameos.
“It is an fascinating problem,” Johnson — who created the present and serves as government producer, author and director — started.
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“As a result of we solid as we shoot, we solid week to week, and so it is all the time a little bit of a panic course of and we do have a number of actors who’re ,” he continued. “It is also these actors are probably the most gifted actors on the planet. In order that they’re very busy. And so it is all the time like doing a jigsaw puzzle on a transferring practice somewhat bit.”
It is then that Lyonne hilariously crashed TooFab’s interview with the director.
“Oh, TooFab,” Lyonne mentioned. “What are you guys speaking about?” she requested, earlier than being stuffed her in on the subject of casting. “Oh my God yeah, keep in mind that burner telephone we received? That was for casting. We’re 666-6666-6666,” the lead actress and fellow-EP joked.
“That is the factor. It does get actually right down to the wire at a sure level,” she continued. “So, it is lofty sophisticated or it is one in every of our associates, and we predict there is a chunk and a need, however then everybody has a schedule and youngsters and flights. And so the episode must be protected.”
Trying round, Johnson identified a number of the “unimaginable” visitor stars.
“It is fairly unimaginable. We have got Clea (DuVall), we have got Melanie (Lynskey). It is insane,” he mentioned — earlier than Lyonne joked, “Blanche DuBois is over there, Barbara Stanwyck. Ludacris, Ludacris is right here tonight, of us.”
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The duo additionally managed to attain Cynthia Erivo on the peak in her profession proper now, after starring as Elphaba in Depraved. She takes on the feat of enjoying 5 completely different characters in Season 2 of the collection.
“She’s unimaginable,” Johnson teased. “As a result of we shot that episode in 10 days, which for the size of the script just isn’t a whole lot of time to shoot it, and it meant that we have been so tightly scheduled. So, she would actually do one half of the scene with one character, go and do a fast make-up change, come again and do the opposite half of the scene and he or she needed to maintain all of it in her head.”
The Knives Out director additionally burdened that Erivo was filming throughout her Depraved press tour
“I don’t know how she labored that arduous on the episode and was simply additionally such an absolute pleasure. So I simply bow down earlier than her. I actually hope I get to work together with her once more, she’s wonderful,” he added.
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Johnson can be preparing for the third installment of his Knives Out franchise, which stars Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc and a protracted record of massive names. As for who shocked him probably the most, he mentioned, “In many alternative methods, so lots of the solid did.”
“I actually love … Josh O’Connor, I feel he can do something. I feel he is miraculous. My director associates are sick of me hyping up Josh O’Connor to them,” he revealed, earlier than stating one other actor who’s exhibiting a distinct facet to his appearing talents within the movie.
“Additionally, Jeremy Renner, I really feel like he has some comedian scenes on this one which I feel persons are going to be shocked by how weirdly humorous he’s within the film. I feel he ought to be doing extra comedy,” he added.
Johnson’s third Knives Out film, titled “Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller,” is scheduled to be launched globally on Netflix within the fall of 2025. It additionally stars Glenn Shut, John Brolin, Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Thomas Haden Church and Andrew Scott.
Season 2 of Poker Face, starring Lyonne, premieres on Peacock on Thursday, Could eighth, 2025 — with the primary three episodes launching that day, adopted by weekly releases each Thursday.
