Knives Out‘s Benoit Blanc and Poker Face‘s Charlie Cale using their combined powers of deduction and bulls— detecting to solve a mystery together? Natasha Lyonne says she would be down.
After a highly acclaimed first season, Poker Face 2.0 started streaming Thursday on Peacock with its first three episodes. It once again sees Lyonne’s Charlie — a woman with an inhuman ability to always know when someone is lying — on the run from trouble, solving strange mysteries at every pit stop.
Season 2 of the series — which was created by Knives Out mastermind Rian Johnson — may have just started, but it’s never too late to plan for the future. And when Entertainment Weekly asks about the potential to maybe one day bring Poker Face to the big screen, Lyonne, who also writes, directs, and executive produces the show, has some thoughts.
“Yeah, it’s something actually I’d love to do. I would love to do a Knives Out, Poker Face crossover movie,” she says. Then, in typical Lyonne fashion, her mind starts playing the possibilities. She jokingly suggests she’d like to get “The Pink Panther” involved, or at the very least let composer Henry Mancini score the thing, nevermind the fact that he died in 1994.
Jokes aside, Lyonne sincerely wants to do more movies. “I’d love a decade of making movies. I miss movies a lot, so I’m excited to make some, I think, because they’re fun. I loved His Three Daughters and I love this movie I’m working with Brit Marling on now [Lyonne’s feature directorial debut, Uncanny Valley], and I miss ’em. They’re fun.”
For his part, Johnson admits making a Poker Face film of some kind “would be a blast,” but it would be sort of antithetical to why he wanted to do a TV series in the first place. “The fun part of doing this show for me is throwing back to the genuine pleasures of Quantum Leap and The A-Team and Murder, She Wrote and stuff that in my mind is TV — just what I remember as a 10-year-old sitting in front of the television set and watching,” he says.
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Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale in ‘Poker Face’
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He continues: “There’s a lack of preciousness to it that gives you permission to do a meth gator episode or to say, ‘Yeah, let’s do one in grade school,’ and that to me is also part of the thrill and the pleasure of what drives the writing process of the show. In other words, if suddenly it was, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to spend a bunch of money making a movie, and this is going to be the one thing [we do],’ that’s a little counter to the very nature of the show itself.”
If anyone could figure out that puzzle though, it’s Johnson, who’s gearing up for the release of the third mystery in the starry Knives Out film franchise, Wake Up Dead Man, later this year. And when EW tells him about Lyonne’s apparent interest, he laughs. “You can be our in-between,” he tells us. “You can work out.” Consider EW officially on the case.
For more with Lyonne and Johnson, check out EW’s Poker Face cover story.
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