On Peacock’s murder mystery/comedy hybrid “Poker Face,” not only are the actors, writers and directors pivotal to the success of the show, but the artisans toiling behind the scenes are of course some of the real stars of the show. How do they typically work with other departments to ensure that they’re all serving the story and elevating the actors’ performances in the best possible way? To answer that question and many more, we celebrated the the show’s acclaimed first season with a special 40-minute “making of” roundtable discussion with costume designer Trayce Gigi Field, production designer Judy Rhee, makeup department head Amy L. Forsythe and hair department head Marcel Dagenais. Together they are joined by Gold Derby senior editor Rob Licuria for a fascinating Q&a about their highlights. Watch our exclusive Q&a video above.
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- 6/16/2023
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
On Monday, June 12, a red carpet and lively FYC panel was held at Neuehouse in Los Angeles for the Peacock comedy series “Poker Face.” Gold Derby associate editor Latasha Ford was on the red carpet to chat with top crafts artisans from the series: Cinematographer Steve Yedlin, production designer Judy Rhee, costume designer Trayce Gigi Field and the hair department head Marcel Dagenais. Check out the red carpet interviews above!
See ‘Poker Face’ editor Bob Ducsay: ‘Our job is to honor the screenplay and the vision of the director’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“Poker Face” is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
The 10-episode comedy series created by Rian Johnson is streaming globally on Peacock.
See ‘Poker Face’ editor Bob Ducsay: ‘Our job is to honor the screenplay and the vision of the director’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
“Poker Face” is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
The 10-episode comedy series created by Rian Johnson is streaming globally on Peacock.
- 6/14/2023
- by Latasha Ford
- Gold Derby
The desert meets the ’70s meets the Western. That’s how “Poker Face” costume designer Trayce Gigi Field describes the vibe of Peacock’s whodunnit series starring Natasha Lyonne.
Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a casino worker with a knack for solving crimes as she goes on the run across the country. Field knew the first thing she had to do was create a look that was a departure from Lyonne’s previous series, “Russian Doll.” First rule: No black.
“We wanted a different color palette, so I put together mood boards, and some of those things like the buttery brown Ysl jacket made it into the series,” says Field.
Charlie is a character who lives off the beaten path and “probably shops at thrift stores,” says Field. Furthermore, she wanted to ground Charlie in reality, and as someone who keeps her clothes in the car. “Natasha loved the black rickrack vest,...
Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a casino worker with a knack for solving crimes as she goes on the run across the country. Field knew the first thing she had to do was create a look that was a departure from Lyonne’s previous series, “Russian Doll.” First rule: No black.
“We wanted a different color palette, so I put together mood boards, and some of those things like the buttery brown Ysl jacket made it into the series,” says Field.
Charlie is a character who lives off the beaten path and “probably shops at thrift stores,” says Field. Furthermore, she wanted to ground Charlie in reality, and as someone who keeps her clothes in the car. “Natasha loved the black rickrack vest,...
- 6/11/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Stevie Nicks has been a muse for countless artists and musicians, and she recently inspired Natasha Lyonne’s Poker Face character, Charlie Cale. Here’s what the creators behind the Peacock show said about using the Fleetwood Mac star as their inspiration.
Stevie Nicks and Natasha Lyonne | Steve Granitz/Getty Images; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Natasha Lyonne plays a human lie detector in Peacock’s ‘Poker Face’
Poker Face is a new series available for streaming on Peacock. The first batch of episodes launched in January.
The 10-episode “case-of-the-week”-style murder mystery follows actor Natasha Lyonne as the main character Charlie Cale, a casino worker who is also a human lie detector. She travels across the US, encountering new characters and solving mysterious homicides along the way.
The show features several recurring and guest stars, including Adrien Brody, Chloë Sevigny, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, Jameela Jamil, Clea DuVall, and more.
Stevie Nicks and Natasha Lyonne | Steve Granitz/Getty Images; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Natasha Lyonne plays a human lie detector in Peacock’s ‘Poker Face’
Poker Face is a new series available for streaming on Peacock. The first batch of episodes launched in January.
The 10-episode “case-of-the-week”-style murder mystery follows actor Natasha Lyonne as the main character Charlie Cale, a casino worker who is also a human lie detector. She travels across the US, encountering new characters and solving mysterious homicides along the way.
The show features several recurring and guest stars, including Adrien Brody, Chloë Sevigny, Dascha Polanco, Ellen Barkin, Jameela Jamil, Clea DuVall, and more.
- 4/14/2023
- by Grace Turney
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Throughout the currently-running first season of Peacock’s “Poker Face,” guests to actor-writer-co-creator Natasha Lyonne’s murder mystery party have found themselves transformed almost beyond recognition. While this has included Chloë Sevigny as a metalhead, and Judith Light and S. Epartha Merkerson as radical hippies-turned-doubly-radical-senior citizens, one transmutation stands above the rest: Episode 8’s “The Orpheus Syndrome” and the makeover given to actress Cherry Jones.
In its script written by Alice Ju and Lyonne (who made her “Poker Face” directing debut with Ep. 8), Jones’ ‘Laura’ character is a big money, power mad, special effects house co-founder who’ll stop at nothing to maintain her position within the film community — including murder.
Enter “Poker Face” makeup head Amy L. Forsythe and hair department head Marcel Dagenais – both worked with Lyonne on her “Russian Doll” series – to transform Jones’ usual earth-mother beauty into something stark and haughtily haute couture.
“Cherry’s ‘Laura...
In its script written by Alice Ju and Lyonne (who made her “Poker Face” directing debut with Ep. 8), Jones’ ‘Laura’ character is a big money, power mad, special effects house co-founder who’ll stop at nothing to maintain her position within the film community — including murder.
Enter “Poker Face” makeup head Amy L. Forsythe and hair department head Marcel Dagenais – both worked with Lyonne on her “Russian Doll” series – to transform Jones’ usual earth-mother beauty into something stark and haughtily haute couture.
“Cherry’s ‘Laura...
- 2/24/2023
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
“Poker Face” sits at the center of a motley Venn Diagram. It is simultaneously a nostalgia-drenched mystery-of-the-week series in the tradition of detective shows of the ’70s and 80s, a road trip show with a constantly rotating cast of characters, a star vehicle for Natasha Lyonne who plays human lie detector Charlie Cale, and a distinctly modern black comedy that blends murder, class mores, and touches of the absurd.
Lyonne’s “Poker Face” character, human lie-detector Charlie Cale, is equally eclectic. She’s a fish-out-of-water yet adaptable to any circumstance; she’s the coolest person in any room she walks into and yet often the person in the room with the least amount of power. A lot of the character’s idiosyncratic cool is down to Lyonne’s performance, of course, but Charlie looks a little like an accidental-murder-solving Time Lord, with a style that’s right at the spot...
Lyonne’s “Poker Face” character, human lie-detector Charlie Cale, is equally eclectic. She’s a fish-out-of-water yet adaptable to any circumstance; she’s the coolest person in any room she walks into and yet often the person in the room with the least amount of power. A lot of the character’s idiosyncratic cool is down to Lyonne’s performance, of course, but Charlie looks a little like an accidental-murder-solving Time Lord, with a style that’s right at the spot...
- 2/3/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
“It seemed like the best idea, but it was also very scary of course because it was the last one, so hopefully you stick the ending,” Natasha Lyonne tells Gold Derby about making her directorial debut for television with the first season finale of “Russian Doll” (watch the exclusive interview above), which Netflix renewed for a second season this week. Lyonne is a past Emmy nominee for acting as Best Comedy Guest Actress in 2014 for “Orange is the New Black” and now contends to be nominated as a director, as confirmed with the release of the 2019 Emmy ballots this week. There is much precedent for her potential nomination, with Bill Hader most recently receiving a nomination in the same Best Comedy Directing category last year for his directorial debut, on the first season of fellow acclaimed half-hour dramedy “Barry,” which he co-created, wrote, executive produced and starred in, just like Lyonne.
- 6/14/2019
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
The idea of ending “Broad City” was something that the show’s creators and stars, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, had had on their mind for a while. In our exclusive interview (watch the video above), Glazer reveals, “We had been talking about the end of the show for a few years. When we got the season four and five pickup, I feel like we started thinking about the rate of growth that we wanted to cover and creatively it felt right.” Jacobson adds that the show was about such a specific experience, that the show would reach a natural conclusion once their characters got beyond that point: “It’s based around our experiences living in New York in our twenties and once one of them is out of their twenties, it felt right that the show would end and leave space for whatever comes next.”
SEEEmmys 2019 exclusive: Category submissions for Comedy Central,...
SEEEmmys 2019 exclusive: Category submissions for Comedy Central,...
- 6/3/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
“She has probably the amount of three people’s heads on her one head,” Marcel Dagenais says about the “incredible hair” of “Russian Doll” star Natasha Lyonne in an exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above) about his role on the new Netflix dramedy as head hairstylist. He explains, “Without any love or any kind of styling, it can get very large, so with that, I was just trying to contain it and really define the curl, while still trying to make it cool and not too overdone.” Drawing inspiration from 80s rock stars like Lita Ford of The Runaways and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Dagenais explains that he took a “very chill, not too made-up” approach to shaping “a very New York-centric, Lower Eastside, 90s cool chick” with Lyonne’s character Nadia Vulvokov.
SEEour Emmy spotlight on “Russian Doll” hyphenate Natasha Lyonne.
Dagenais has submitted his...
SEEour Emmy spotlight on “Russian Doll” hyphenate Natasha Lyonne.
Dagenais has submitted his...
- 5/29/2019
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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