Natasha Lyonne wants to grow old with 'Poker Face.' No one's arguing
LOS ANGELES — Natasha Lyonne is laying her (credit) cards on the table, along with her Nicorette and Tea Tree Therapy mint toothpicks. We're sitting in the back house of the Studio City office she shares with producing partner Maya Rudolph, and this emptying of pockets came as a response to talk of her moving, part time at least, to L.A.
Lyonne holds up her driver's license, emphasizing it was issued by the state of New York, and when I study the photo for a beat too long, she points at the picture and says, "Just because I look like s— right now doesn't mean that's not what I look like, Glenn. Do I come out on tour with you and say, 'Hey, Mr. Danzig, how come you don't always look like you do when you're on stage?' Do you hear this, Root Beer?"
Root Beer, Lyonne's longtime, barks, sounding a note of disapproval. Lyonne and I met about 20 minutes ago and from the moment we laid eyes on each other, she's been calling me Glenn Danzig, though there's precious little overlap between the heavy metal icon and myself. But Lyonne likes to free-associate. Thoughts tumble forth, heavy on references to '70s movies, Elliott Gould, Bob Fosse, John Cassavetes and possibly becoming a cyborg one day. That she quit smoking for the first time in her life a few weeks ago isn't necessarily helping her focus, she notes.
