Additionally they share particulars on Cynthia Erivo becoming a member of the present and taking part in 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 Useless Man.
When you’ve got been struggling to come up with Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson for a job on Poker Face, you could be calling the incorrect quantity.
Whereas strolling the purple carpet to have fun Season 2 of the Peacock collection, each Lyonne and Johnson opened as much as TooFab how they go about casting the collection — which is full of movie star cameos.
“It is an fascinating problem,” Johnson — who created the present and serves as govt 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 essentially 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 a little bit bit.”
It is then that Lyonne hilariously crashed TooFab’s interview with the director.
“Oh, TooFab,” Lyonne stated. “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 cellphone we acquired? 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 all our mates, and we predict there is a chew 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 few of the “unbelievable” visitor stars.
“It is fairly unbelievable. We have Clea (DuVall), we have Melanie (Lynskey). It is insane,” he stated — 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 taking part in 5 completely different characters in Season 2 of the collection.
“She’s unbelievable,” Johnson teased. “As a result of we shot that episode in 10 days, which for the size of the script will not be a whole lot of time to shoot it, and it meant that we had 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 she or he needed to hold all of it in her head.”
The Knives Out director additionally pressured that Erivo was filming throughout her Depraved press tour
“I don’t know how she labored that tough 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 superb,” 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 an extended checklist of huge names. As for who stunned him essentially the most, he stated, “In many alternative methods, so most of the solid did.”
“I actually love … Josh O’Connor, I believe he can do something. I believe he is miraculous. My director mates are sick of me hyping up Josh O’Connor to them,” he revealed, earlier than declaring one other actor who’s exhibiting a distinct aspect to his appearing skills within the movie.
“Additionally, Jeremy Renner, I really feel like he has some comedian scenes on this one which I believe individuals are going to be stunned by how weirdly humorous he’s within the film. I believe he ought to be doing extra comedy,” he added.
Johnson’s third Knives Out film, titled “Wake Up Useless 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.
