With casting for the second season of Poker Face underway, Rian Johnson spoke to Deadline about the show and who he’d like to see join the cast, and while he’s eager to get as many folks from his previous films (“I’m calling every single one of them“) he’d also like to see some familiar faces from the galaxy far, far away including a very popular one from The Last Jedi.
“I would love to get Kelly Marie Tran from Star Wars in there for an episode.”
He was also asked about his connection to television compared to his relationship with feature films, and Star Wars was the obvious parallel.
DEADLINE: What does television mean to you as opposed to your connection to features?
JOHNSON: The same way that when I think about Star Wars, it takes me back to playing with Star Wars toys and seeing the movies and all of those tactile experiences and what that meant to me as a kid. When I think about TV, I think about sitting on the floor in front of my parents’ TV when I was a kid watching reruns during the middle of the day, and the relationship that I formed with those shows and what they meant to me, and how they mythologized in my head, and how they lived there.
There’s a very specific range of shows that we talked about, with so many of them shot on the Universal lot and having a slapdash kind of quality to them, even the better ones. There’s something incredibly joyful about that for me specifically. And that’s what latched in my head: if I’m going to do a TV show, I don’t want to do a nine-hour movie. I want to make a TV show, and I want to make something that feels that way to me and hits that pleasure center.
The article is a deep dive into the debut season with Johnson and series star Natasha Lyonne, and stay tuned for further Rian Johnson news.
