Rian Johnson talks PokerFace, the insane guest cast, future seasons, and which KnivesOut cast member he'd like to get in an episode.
From creator/writer Rian Johnson, the Peacock mystery-of-the-week series Poker Face follows Charlie Cale , who suddenly finds herself in the position of needing to hit the road in her Plymouth Barracuda. Trying to outrun some very dangerous consequences for her actions leads her to a series of encounters and strange crimes that no one is more perfect to handle, as her ability to always be able to determine when someone is lying never fails her.
JOHNSON: Honestly, just hopping in and directing episodic, and I haven’t done much – I did Terriers and three episodes of Breaking Bad – was heaven. It was getting to pop in and just do the fun part because you’re handed a perfect script. You get to show up and prep and direct and work with the great actors, but all the heavy lifting of actually creating the thing is done by the creators. So, I loved it. My priority has always been movies, and that has taken up all of my time.
JOHNSON: That makes me happy. My intent, from the beginning, was to make this show like a perfectly tailored suit for her. But at the same time, and this goes back to the shows I grew up watching, when I think about, for instance, Columbo, I don’t really watch Columbo for the mysteries. You watch it to hang out with Peter Falk, really.
JOHNSON: That, I’m figuring out. That’s the golden question. The big answer is yes. Natasha and I constructed this engine to keep running. I see endless creative possibilities. We have dozens of pitches left on the whiteboard, any one of which would be a great episode. We can keep going with this, and hopefully keep it fresh and surprising and fun. The element of time being a finite element, that’s something all of us bump up against in life, isn’t it? But I wanna work it out.
JOHNSON: It was a balance of budget, schedule, and the amount of time that it takes to make the show. Who knows, going forward. It felt like a comfortable number. This is a very, very difficult show to make. The fact that we have no recurring cast, except for Natasha, and there are no standing sets, episode-to-episode, our production designer, Judy Rhee, had to design an entirely new movie, every single episode, which is very labor-intensive.
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