Rian Johnson has teased how it hopes to get some of the Star Wars actors to appear in the second season of Poker Face.
During an interview with Deadline.com, Johnson talks about the array of guest starts he managed to recruit for the first season which included some from his films, like Adrien Brody, with whom he worked on The Brothers Bloom, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt from his films Brick and Looper, Russian Doll co-star Chloë Sevigny, starring as a dangerously embittered rocker, Dascha Polanco, Benjamin Bratt, Ellen Barkin, Hong Chau, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephanie Hsu and more.
Casting for the upcoming second season is underway and when asked if we would see more famous faces from some of his previous films, he had this to say…
“I’m calling every single one of them. I would love to get Kelly Marie Tran from Star Wars in there for an episode.”
Johnson also mentioned Star Wars when asked about what television means to him as opposed to his connection to feature films…
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 first series of Poker Face is available to stream now.
