Natasha Lyonne is again within the driver’s seat as her Peacock procedural Poker Face begins manufacturing on Season 2.
Rian Johnson celebrated the the primary day of filming the sophomore season on Monday, sharing a photograph of the present’s clapboard, which listed Lyonne because the director for episode two.
“Day one season two,” wrote Johnson on his Instagram Story.
Impressed by the inverted detective format of Columbo and equally described by Johnson as a “howcatchem” (versus the “whodunit” construction of Knives Out and Glass Onion), Poker Face follows Vegas on line casino employee and human bullshit detector Charlie Cale (Lyonne) as she runs from the mob whereas fixing a string of murders alongside the best way.
The star-studded collection has featured such visitor stars as Adrien Brody, Ron Perlman, Chloë Sevigny, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie Hsu, Clea DuVall, Dascha Polanco, Hong Chau, Megan Suri, Danielle Macdonald, Judith Mild, Ellen Barkin, Tim Meadows, Jameela Jamil, Charles Melton, Rowan Blanchard and Rhea Perlman.
Rian Johnson celebrates the primary day of filming Poker Face, Season 2. (Instagram @riancjohnson)
Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson attend the premiere of Poker Face on January 23, 2023 on the Hollywood Legion Theater. (Jesse Grant/Peacock by way of Getty Photographs)
Lyonne, who additionally serves as a author and government producer on the present, beforehand directed the Season 1 episode ‘The Orpheus Syndrome’, which featured Nick Nolte, Luis Guzmán and Cherry Jones. She was additionally nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Finest Actress.
Johnson teased what’s in retailer for Poker Face and his hopes to do the present “so long as we are able to” throughout Deadline’s TV Contender occasion final April.
“We need to hold doing it and I really feel like it is vitally a lot constructed so that there’s an overarching story but it surely’s type of much like the story of whether or not Sam goes to get house on Quantum Leap,” he defined. “It type of doesn’t matter actually, it’s simply an engine to have the ability to hold her on the street and hold her shifting and hold doing these little mysteries and having thrilling individuals in them. Our purpose is to only hold doing that so long as we are able to.”