Natasha Lyonne Brings the Chaos, Candor and Career Stories
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Actress extraordinaire Natasha Lyonne drops into Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade for the kind of loose, zigzagging conversation that fits her perfectly: part show-business confession, part comedy spiral and part beautifully controlled chaos.
Lyonne gets candid about haters, her years with Fred Armisen and the advice he gave her before she hosted the Saturday Night Live Season 47 finale. She also revisits her beginnings as a child actor, including memories of appearing on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
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The Fred Armisen section is especially revealing. Lyonne jokes about one of her great relationship regrets—never taking him up on invitations to visit Lorne Michaels’ blueberry farm in Maine—while also crediting Armisen with helping her understand that hosting SNL is ultimately about serving the cast and the show, not treating the night like a personal coronation.
Elsewhere, the trio bounces through Lyonne’s relationship with criticism, Mediterranean Sea and Spain talk, and the strange experience of watching other actors and shows from the outside. Naturally, Euphoria also enters the chat, because no David Spade conversation stays on one track for very long.
Lyonne also discusses her upcoming film Klara and the Sun, Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. The film stars Jenna Ortega as Klara, an Artificial Friend searching for a home, with Lyonne appearing as the store manager alongside Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Steve Buscemi and Aran Murphy.
What holds the episode together is Lyonne’s ability to turn nearly any subject into a miniature monologue. She can move from childhood memories to ex-boyfriend lore to a new movie without losing the thread—or at least without losing thee audience.
Natasha Lyonne on Fly on the Wall With Dana Carvey and David Spade
Natasha Lyonne discusses Fred Armisen, criticism, Euphoria, her child-acting years and Klara and the Sun in the full podcast interview.
Source: Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade; Sony Pictures.
