The pandemic has hindered the natural course of even the most successful series, among many other things. So the second season ‘Russian baby’ (Netflix, Wednesday, the 20th) released more than three years later! first, without a big-budget production on the other hand. The fun of this existential comedy lies less in its outbursts or its various parts. agile way to present ideas about death and regeneration, determinism and redemption.
In fact, there were venues, venues, one in particular: the 36th birthday party of the protagonist video game engineer. Nadia Vulvokov, where the poor thing dies in the most diverse ways and then turns over and over in a loop. After its revival with ‘Orange is the new black’, Natasha Lyonne She seduced with the tortured character and also surprised by acting as co-creator (with Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland), screenwriter, producer and even a brilliant director who can translate philosophical abstraction into powerful images.
Lyonne again multitasked in the second roundIn addition to replacing Headland, which he continues to star in, he writes four episodes and directs three episodes. As he explained in a recent profile in The New Yorker, directing is his dream place: “Directing is the other new thing that has come into my life, and I’ve never felt more comfortable with anything. It turns all my flaws into virtues. That’s, you know, overly determined, obsessive and means to be relentless.”
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Although he now triumphs with his own series tailored to his needs, Lyonne hasn’t always lived such a fortunate life. Raised between New York and Israel, survived intense personalities of a boxing promoter father and a mother with ballerina aspirations. Although they eventually gave him a career, he often blames his parents for starting him on the show when he was very young: in 1986, When she was just six years old, she was in the role of her nephew. Meryl Streep In ‘Cake Out’ and joined the boys’ gang at ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’.
In the late eighties, already living alone with her mother, enrolled in a private Jewish school and was expelled for selling marijuana. Natasha, perhaps unknowingly or unintentionally, learned to be a free spirit from her parents and became independent from her family at the age of 16; Her salary for playing Woody Allen’s teenage daughter in ‘Everybody Says I Love You’ helped her buy an apartment.
During the busiest years of his career, he has calmly tossed between the mainstream (‘Scary Movie 2’, ‘Blade: Trinity’ or the saga). ‘American Pie’) and distinctive independent cinema (‘Hanging in Beverly Hills’ or ‘But I’m a cheerleader’).
decline and resurrection
But she was banned by Hollywood because of her addictions: she was arrested in 2001. drunk driver; Friend and host Michael Rapaport in 2005 evicted him from the building where he lived after complaints from some new tenants. about his behavior and he was taken to intensive care in the same year. serious health complications.
He entered a rehab center in late 2006 and hasn’t used drugs since, but it took him some time to find big names on screen. His hit of luck has come la ‘filósofa yonqui’ Nicky Nichols de ‘Orange is the new black’Released by Netflix in July 2013. Now she is not only a great actress, but also a complete cult creator..