But what makes her special is she has this innate ability to be able to tell when someone is lying. You know, kind of adrift, loving her single life of drifting from job to job. '' So it just felt so special to get to do this.īENJAMIN BRATT: The central conceit of the show is that her character, Charlie Cale, who is by no means a police officer or detective at all, she's just a working gal.
It's not just, 'Oh, I think you're such a great filmmaker.' It's like, 'You've actually done the legwork and the heavy lifting to say, 'Hey, I want us to go make. Because it's such a loving gesture of, 'We're gonna go play together.' Like we actually really like each other. I was so moved just on a human level, because it really feels in a way, it's like, my inner child or something gets very excited. And about a year later, he really had put pen to paper, and sent me this incredibly crafted and funny and just really cool script that was a pilot of Poker Face. So I think we just really fell for each other creatively. And in Rian, I really found this kindred spirit of doing this whole other game. Here I was, really doing more existential, psychedelic, philosophical puzzle boxes that were about the nature of self, sort of like a character on their own case. And we sort of talked about our shared love of noir and all the different ways in which that can go, and I don't think I really knew all the way yet that Rian was kind of the master of that entire arena.
