Natasha Lyonne is back on the road for Season 2 of Poker Face, and she brought a few old friends along for the ride.
While discussing the star-studded guest roster of the Peacock show’s sophomore season, the first three episodes available to stream May 8, the actress admitted to Deadline that she wasn’t entirely sure if she’d previously worked with ‘The Sleazy Georgian’ actor John Cho.
“I think that he’s maybe in some of the American Pies,” she said. “I’ll be honest, I haven’t seen those. I did see the first one at the premiere. I do love Chris and Paul Weitz. I do talk a lot of shit about that movie, it’s mostly just because I don’t understand high school or proms or suburbia.”
Despite having only seen the first American Pie (1999), Lyonne played the sarcastic Jessica in the teen film and its sequel American Pie 2 (2001). Although she sat out American Wedding (2003), she returned for 2012’s American Reunion.
Lyonne added, “But I think that John’s in those movies. Because whenever I see John around town or something, we’re always like, ‘American Pie!’ And then, when he got to set, we were like, ‘American Pie!’ But I was sort of playing along, if I’m honest, because I was just like, we’ve been doing that bit for over a decade, and so I kind of had to commit to the bit. He is in the movies, right?”
Eddie Kaye Thomas, Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid and Natasha Lyonne in ‘American Pie’ (1999)
Cho has appeared in all of the American Pie films as ‘MILF Guy’, known for bestowing the nickname upon Stifler’s mom (Jennifer Coolidge). “Jennifer Coolidge! Does she wanna be in Poker Face? Because she should be!” declared Lyonne.
In addition to Cho, Lyonne reunites with a few other familiar faces in Season 2, including David Krumholtz and Kevin Corrigan from Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Melanie Lynskey from But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) and Orange Is the New Black co-stars Taylor Schilling and Adrienne C. Moore.
Other Season 2 guest stars include Giancarlo Esposito, Cynthia Erivo, Katie Holmes, Gaby Hoffmann, Kumail Nanjiani, Kathrine Narducci, Sherry Cola, Ben Marshall, John Mulaney, Ego Nwodim, Sam Richardson, Awkwafina, Corey Hawkins, Simon Rex, Cliff ‘Method Man’ Smith, Davionte ‘GaTa’ Ganter, Haley Joel Osment, Justin Theroux, Patti Harriso, Jason Ritter, Alia Shawkat, Carol Kane and Geraldine Viswanathan.
