Natasha Lyonne: Directing ‘Is The Single-Minded Focus Of My Life At This Point’

Apple TV+ has inked a multi-year first-look deal with Animal Pictures, the production company from Maya Rudolph, Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens.The deal gives Apple TV+ the first-look on series and digital features developed and produced by the company.The news comes not long after the debut of Rudolph’s new workplace comedy series “Loot” on the streamer. “Loot” follows Rudolph’s Molly Novak, “a billionaire who has a dream life, complete with private jets, a sprawling mansion and a gigayacht — anything her heart desires. But when her husband of 20 years betrays her, she spirals publicly, becoming fuel for tabloid fodder,” per a logline from the streamer.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has struck a multi-year first-look deal with Animal Pictures, the production company run by Maya Rudolph, Natasha Lyonne and Danielle Renfrew Behrens.The announcement of the deal comes after the premiere of “Loot,” the Apple comedy series in which Rudolph stars and executive produces. Under the terms of the deal, Apple will now have a first-look at all series and digital features developed and produced by Animal Pictures.In addition to “Loot,” Animal Pictures has Lyonne’s second season of “Russian Doll” at Netflix and Rian Johnson’s mystery “Poker Face” and a two-season order of adult animated series “The Hospital” created by Cirocco Dunlap.

Animal Pictures, the production company founded by Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne, has signed a first-look deal with Apple TV+.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson’s Peacock series “Poker Face” has added five new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.Tim Meadows (“Saturday Night Live,” “The Goldbergs”), Jameela Jamil (“The Good Place,” “She-Hulk”), Nicholas Cirillo (“Outer Banks,” “Jesus Revolution”), Audrey Corsa (“All Rise,” “Dear Edward”) and Niall Cunningham (“And Just Like That,” “Life in Pieces”) have all been cast in the series.The five new cast members join previously announced series lead Lyonne in the series, along with cast members that include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Benjamin Bratt, Stephanie Hsu, and David Castañeda. Plot and character details for the series are being kept largely under wraps, though sources say the show will follow a procedural format and see Lyonne’s character working to solve different murders in each episode. Meadows is repped by CESD and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Machine Gun Kelly and Glaive are set to collaborate on a new single called ‘More Than Life’ this week (June 10).The new track follows Kelly’s recent chart-topping album ‘Mainstream Sellout’, while he also collaborated with Blackbear last week on the angsty breakup anthem ‘GFY’.A press release promises of ‘More Than Life’: “The crunching track features rising pop prodigy glaive and exhibits MGK’s gift for relaying passionate pain as he weighs his fears of vulnerability with the acceptance of newfound love in the lyrics.”Pre-save the new track below – it arrives this Friday (June 10).friday

While Kéllé Bryan has a slew of TV stints under her belt – from The Bill to Hollyoaks – many will have forgotten that she featured on Love Island in 2006. Kéllé shot to fame on The Bill in the 1990s, to later form girl group Eternal alongside Easther and Vernie Bennett, as well as Louise Redknapp. Following her acting and singing success, Kéllé went on to join the line-up of Celebrity Love Island 2006.

EXCLUSIVE: Chloë Sevigny is the latest cast addition to Poker Face, Peacock’s 10-episode mystery drama series starring Natasha Lyonne, from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television.

While Natasha Lyonne couldn’t attend the Russian Doll: For Your Consideration Event, that doesn’t mean her presence wasn’t felt!

EXCLUSIVE: Dascha Polanco (Orange Is The New Black) and Lil Rel Howery (Free Guy) have been cast opposite Natasha Lyonne in Poker Face, Peacock’s 10-episode mystery drama series from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe second season of “Russian Doll” sees Nadia (Natasha Lyonne, who also serves as the show’s co-creator and showrunner) stepping back in time to the 1980s via a subway car. As posters of “Cats” and film “Sophie’s Choice” appear, Nadia glimpses a newspaper.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDanielle Macdonald has been cast in the Natasha Lyonne-led Peacock series “Poker Face,” which hails from creator Rian Johnson.Macdonald is the latest addition to the growing cast. In addition to Lyonne, previously announced cast members include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Benjamin Bratt, Stephanie Hsu, and David Castañeda.

Netflix’s “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne become obsessed with filming a pivotal finale sequence at a location that was her “kind of kink” — the underground cisterns in Budapest.“I have two churches in my life: science and the movies. And what I love about science is that it is so conclusively bigger than me,” Lyonne told Variety during an interview on the upstate New York set of “Poker Face,” her upcoming Rian Johnson-created Peacock series. “I have a real intuitive understanding of the language of cinema and literature and music.

Euphoria costar have called it quits.Fike opened up about their romance in the upcoming June/July 2022 issue of GQ, according to a preview from . The profile reportedly refers to Schafer as Fike's girlfriend and described the couple as “very much in love.” Until this point, neither Fike nor Schafer had commented publically about their romance, which Fike says developed quickly while they filmed season two of . “In those moments, your relationship is accelerated because you’re so vulnerable with someone, immediately. Which usually takes a long time,” he told GQ, per Page Six.

There have been rumors that Euphoria co-stars Dominic Fike and Hunter Schafer have broken up, but he’s opening up about their relationship in a new interview.

A euphoric love story! Dominic Fike opened up about dating his Euphoria costar Hunter Schafer for the first time — and made it very clear how he feels about her.

Buddies despite the breakup. Natasha Lyonne brought out ex-boyfriend Fred Armisen when she hosted the Saturday Night Live season 47 finale just one month after confirming their breakup.