“Charlie” is Charlie Cale, the protagonist of the new mystery series Poker Face, created by Knives Out and Glass Onion writer-director Rian Johnson, which begins streaming Jan. “That’s why,” she adds, not even stopping to catch her breath, “I really, really identify with my friend Charlie.” That is the primary lie that I can’t stand for. So inherently, any living, breathing person experiencing sentience is inherently not fine. Some of which are marveling at the beauty and the poetry of the riddle, and others are just debating how we ended up in such a losing setup to begin with. “Why? Because human beings are complex and going through many things at the same time. The notion of lying leads to her hatred of small talk, as she argues that “How are you?”/“I’m fine” is “the worst couplet in the history of the world” - and also a lie. Her mind is spitting out ideas in full paragraph form, delivered with such speed and intensity that it feels like she’s in constant motion, even after she finally sits on her couch.
It’s late on a Friday night, and the diminutive redhead is carrying her laptop from room to room in her Los Angeles home so she can opine without interrupting our Zoom call.
“When people lie, on a deep level, I’m perplexed that they don’t seem to know that we’re going to die and that their lie doesn’t matter. “I don’t think I believe in it philosophically, as a concept,” she says. Natasha Lyonne thinks that the very idea of lying is bullshit.
