Note: This story contains spoilers of season 2 of “Poker Face”, episode 12.
Charlie Cale by Natasha Lyonne settled in the animated metropolis of New York in “Poker Face”, the final of season 2 torn off all paneling from normality while Charlie returned to the road, fearing even more than the first time.
After setting up in his Brooklyn crash pad (thanks to the good friend of Steve Buscemi) and developed a friendship with a local named Alex (Patti Harrison), things were pretty good for Charlie-that is to say until she discovers that she is at the center of a plot of Notorious Assassin The Iguana to find and kill Beatrix Hangleman). Charlie and Alex thought that they had escaped the Iguana, until Charlie realized that his friend was in fact of the Iguana, who had friendship with Charlie so that she could lead her to the hasp and kill her.
It turns out that Alex was the only person who could lie to Charlie without alarming his bull detector – an achievement that leaves Charlie “the broken heart” with “a real pain” while she was taking the road after the FBI agent Luca Clark (Simon Helberg) told Charlie that she now wanted by the FBI, according to Showrunner Tony Tost.
“She connects to people, but … she has trouble finding a house in the world [and] I think she really had the impression that she may have found her place in Brooklyn, found someone who seemed only well suited to be her friend, “Tost told Thewrap.
Tost added that Alex was someone who could trust Charlie and she thought she never lied to him, allowing Charlie to connect with Alex without feeling a persistent bull – an alarm go out at the back of his head.
“For this to have withdrawn from under her and to discover that it is in fact the only person who can lie to her, it leaves her in an existentially uncompromising place and the broken heart,” said Tost, adding that it was interesting “to see what was hidden under the kind of rye smile that we usually see Charlie”. “”
Charlie fights through the pain of betrayal to get out of the serious situation, which ends with Alex flying a cliff in the Plymouth Barracuda of Charlie while Charlie finds himself face to face with Luca, who will give him a start to escape, but warns her that the next time he will see her, he will have to stop him. The conversation triggers an emotional response for Charlie de Lyonne, who, according to Tost, could have been colored by the imminent changes of the show to secure another episode.
“She will bring everything that is happening that day in her life in performance – there will sometimes be moments of vulnerability that are not written, but deepens in a scene,” said Tost. “It was one of the last days that we have shot … You are not guaranteed seasons forever. Is it his last scene with Luca? Is it his last scene as Charlie? ”
Below, Tost unpacked that Cliffhanger False and honoring the pre-Prestige television shows, and reveals Rian Johnson’s largest orientation word for the Murder Mystery series.
Thewrap: Why did you choose to kill HASP?
Tost: I had the impression that it would be a death that would have a little punch. It was not originally the great master plan, but as we were talking about this character Alex, [we discussed] What would justify the greatest successful woman in the world to come? We have established that this thing of HASP still has there. She is alive. We have established that it testifies to events against powerful people. He grew up in this way, as a way to justify this character from Alex being in our world. The additional advantage is that Rhea Perlman is intrinsically very friendly, even when it is frightening. You don’t want to see her be killed; This increases the emotional issues for Charlie and for the spectator.
The final has an excellent false and a literal cliffhanger before resolving the end. What was the inspiration behind this?
It was something Rian [Johnson] And I talked about, and which we laughed. There is something in these shows from the 80s where sometimes there is almost this thing “The Dukes of Hazzard” where the car is in the air and then a freezing and “to continue next week”. We talked all the season, before we know what the serialized story, perhaps to make a two-part story because it is something that “Magnum Pi” or “Rockford Files” did. It comes from our love of these weekly television shows from the old school and some tropes and some of the movements, and how could we reuse and remix them and make them fresh for a new audience?
Before the Tour des Events, do you think Charlie would have been happy to live in Brooklyn and stay there?
I have the feeling that probably, with this gift, and with this fact that there seem to be murders that occur around it all the time, I think that almost any place has a certain conservation period for Charlie. I could see her spend a season, if she did not have her cosmic swore enemy who is accompanied, but probably not 20 years in the same building.
Have you heard something negative or positive about a potential season 3? Would you like to come back and what do you see in the long term for the show?
Whether or not there is a season 3 which is really between the studio, Peacock, Rian, Natasha, and I am a little happily, hope it, a good hand hired to help. But it’s really the Natasha-Rian spectacle, so I think it’s starting there. And obviously, it starts with if MRC and Peacock see that there is another season for them, then the conversations go there.
This season has had a few other arches of several episodes, but always a good dose of punctuals. Has this balance was sufficient and would you like to reach a similar balance in season 3?
It is really an original idea of Rian. When we arrived to start the writers’ room, I started asking questions about season 2, what was the general arc, and he just said to me: “Don’t worry.” I had on the board of directors, 201 202 203 just to map – there are 12 episodes, how to fill it? It was like, in fact, “could you remove these cards and when the writers come here, just focus on a good mystery.” We broke these individual episodes before we even know what season would be … if there is a season 3, again, I think it’s really Rian’s call.
We did not see a lot of good friends, especially since Charlie approached Alex. Could he come back in season 3?
He could certainly come back. Charlie needs a friend, and it would be nice to have someone she could talk to, just to get what is in her mind and her heart. A CB radio friend, whom you hear, but you never see – it looks like a return to these 1980s’ programs that we love. There is just something in this world of pre-Prestige television which is rather fun, so it was the design of Good Buddy. Would we see him see him? Do we hear it more? I think everything on the table for the future story.
What conversations do you have in the writers’ room to honor past television while being a streaming show by watching the current television landscape?
It is really this mandate that starts with Rian that the last thing we should do is hunt [and] Try to reproduce what other programs do and not continue the coolest and most recent trends. When we are in the Room of Writers, it’s a bit like “it’s a weekly case show.” We have to do certain things to make it feel like an episode of “poker face” and it is the driving force, and a lot of inspiration are these pre-Pré-Pré-Gardien emissions before “sopranos”-we try not to repeat ourselves, but we do not try what we can find on this type of model or this type of model, we can go too.
This interview has been modified for duration and clarity.
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