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Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Hollywood vet who worked with Angelina Jolie before battling mental health issues makes rare sighting, who is she?
This former teen star looked unrecognizable while stepping out on a rare outing in Los Angeles this week. The actress, now 47, was fresh-faced as she stepped out to pick up a refreshment at a coffee chain in Larchmont Village. She looked much more mature while sporting casual, errand-running attire, compared to back when she starred in the 1999 cult classic Girl, Interrupted alongside Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder, when she was only 22. This comes after she publicly discussed about her mental health battle and opened up about coming out as gay. She also touched on self-acceptance. She was also pictured kissing her best friend, Poker Face star Natasha Lyonne, several years ago after they previously made out in a Sapphic romantic comedy together. She is also close friends with Kristen Stewart after they worked together in another holiday rom-com. Can you guess who she is? She is Clea DuVall. The actress and director is best known for appearing in cult classics But I'm A Cheerleader and Girl, Interrupted. The movie star — who is of no relation to Shelley Duvall — is also known for starring in a number of blockbuster hits including Argo, She's All That, The Grudge, Zodiac and Faculty. She was spotted coming out of Starbucks with an iced tea beverage and toting a black, leather crossbody bag and a brown paper bag after picking up a gift from local children's shop Flicka. Kicking off the weekend, she was spotted grabbing a little pick-me-up for her morning errands. For her day out on the town, she sported a bright blue graphic T-shirt layered with a brown, linen button-up shirt and paired with dark-wash, fitted jeans. She opted out of any makeup and showed off her fresh-faced, glowing visage, a little rosy from spending time in the sun, on Friday. DuVall — who was previously linked to Elliot Page, Camila Grey and Carla Gallo — has reportedly been married to film producer Mia Weir since 2015. Her directorial work includes the 2020 sapphic rom-com Happiest Season. The Hulu romantic comedy film was directed by DuVall, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Mary Holland. The movie, which featured an all-star ensemble cast including Kristen Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Dan Levy among many others. Her most recent projects include appearing as Lyonne's lead character Charlie's estranged sister in Poker Face. She is also a director for a special episode of season two. She also worked on 2022 Amazon series High School. DuVall was also tapped to direct the female-driven comedy adventure film, Abbi and the Eighth Wonder, last year. The actress previously opened up about working on the satirical, sapphic romantic comedy, But I'm A Cheerleader, as she opened up about a difficult time in her life. A few years ago, she opened up about her mental health while discussing the legacy of But I'm A Cheerleader and reflecting on working on the gay conversion camp rom-com with Lyonne in 1999. DuVall said it was a 'scary time' for her back then, because, at the time, she had not come out yet publicly. 'I came out at 16, but until I was in my thirties I was just kind of surviving,' she confessed. 'So many opportunities came to me because of [But I'm A Cheerleader] that I didn't take because I was afraid,' she admitted in an October 2022 interview with The Independent. 'I was very closeted and very afraid of people finding out I was gay,' she explained. 'It was the Nineties. There was no conversation about sexuality — you were just not going to talk about it.' Though she had already come out to her friends and family at the time, she was not yet ready to come out publicly while in the spotlight. 'It was dangerous for me,' she said about promoting the movie around the time of its premiere. 'It was such a scary time. Once it came out and we started the press cycle for it, I remember feeling like, "Oh s***, I need to hide. I need to stop."' A few years ago, she opened up about her mental health while discussing the legacy of But I'm A Cheerleader and reflecting on working on the gay conversion camp rom-com with Lyonne in 1999 She later came out in 2016. 'I could either try to convince people that I was not who I am, or embrace who I was and come out,' she said. 'So much pain comes from not accepting yourself for who you are.' She continued: I've seen so many people bending over backwards and tying themselves in knots. I've had friends die because they were trying so hard to be something that they weren't. Eventually you buckle under the weight of that.' She added, 'The time that it took to [come out] helped shape the person that I've become. I feel settled. I feel more at peace with myself.'
New York Times
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Poker Face' Returns With New Mysteries and Old Friends
Natasha Lyonne has been acting since childhood, but she is not a 'nepo baby.' (She wanted to be one, she joked, but 'they're telling me it's too late, and that's unfortunate.') What she does have in lieu of famous parents, however, is a universe of famous friends ready to heed her call. 'I don't have parents or kids,' she said. 'I'm just always trying to create some sort of an old-fashioned caravan on-the-road family band that is a real town-to-town pickup sport where we get to reunite.' That much is evident in the second season of the Peacock mystery series 'Poker Face,' debuting on Thursday. The show stars Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a reluctant crime solver who can tell when someone is lying. The mystery-of-the-week structure allows Lyonne, who is also an executive producer, to call on her closest pals to guest star as victims or suspects. The upshot is that viewers are treated to mini reunions from the stars of cult classics like 'Slums of Beverly Hills' (1998) and 'But I'm a Cheerleader' (2000). One episode features Lyonne's 'Slums' love interest, Kevin Corrigan, as a Teamster on a film set that turns into a crime scene. Another has her character's brother from 'Slums,' David Krumholtz, as a kind father to a boy accused of killing a pet gerbil. Later, her 'Cheerleader' co-star Melanie Lynskey plays an unsuspecting do-gooder roped into a scheme at a hotel bar. Clea DuVall, Lyonne's girlfriend from that same comedy, directs an episode that also stars Lynskey's husband, Jason Ritter; DuVall also played Charlie's sister in the first season. In real life, Lyonne and Lynskey planned DuVall's wedding reception. These are some of Lyonne's favorite people, she said. 'I ended up an old man and a workaholic, so the only place I see them is on the road from gig to gig,' she added. Rian Johnson, the 'Poker Face' creator, said the show's casting process is somewhat chaotic, with new crime stories each episode that require new actors to bring them to life. Often the ability to text friends is a convenient means to an end; the nostalgia factor is incidental. 'It's not so much a conceptual 'Let's do this reunion or that reunion,'' he said. 'It's just that people love Natasha, and people who are in her life stay in her life.' Because Charlie moves from town to town in 'Poker Face' and guest stars appear only briefly as the kooky people she encounters, Lyonne said, she and Johnson tried to slot actors into roles that aren't necessarily their usual milieus. (Lynskey, for one, was happy she got to play a semi-normal woman given her recent feral turn in 'Yellowjackets.') 'All these rock star giants can probably do practically anything if given a chance,' Lyonne said. 'They don't have to sustain it for seven seasons or even an hour and a half.' The show also features other friends Lyonne has amassed over her career. Her 'Orange Is the New Black' co-star Adrienne C. Moore appears in one installment; Becky Chin, an assistant director of 'Poker Face,' worked on 'Orange' and on Lyonne's Netflix series 'Russian Doll.' But for the actors who met Lyonne back in the '90s, there's a forged-in-fire quality to their partnerships. Lynskey said that during the making of the director Jamie Babbit's pink-saturated satire 'But I'm a Cheerleader,' in which Lyonne plays a girl sent to a gay conversion camp, she, Lyonne and DuVall were in a 'crazy place' emotionally. (DuVall in an interview described the three of them as ''90s scumbags who were bopping around.') Babbit wrangled them for a film that is now regarded as a queer touchstone. 'None of us were really content or happy,' Lynskey said. 'For us to be adults in our mid-40s who survived and are working and able to make choices about what we want to do and who we want to do it with, it feels very, very powerful to us to have come from this place of desperation for a long time.' These days, saying yes when Lyonne calls is a no-brainer, said Corrigan, who also starred with Lyonne and Lynskey in 'Detroit Rock City' (1999), a '70s period piece about a bunch of kids who want to attend a KISS concert. 'She left me a message after I had gotten the offer to be in 'Poker Face,' saying, 'Hi, Corrigan, so, I'll have the usual,'' he said. 'It was like, 'Yeah, I'll be there to serve it up.' Lyonne also directed and co-wrote Corrigan's episode, about a movie shoot at a funeral home gone wrong. He said it was like 'witnessing the arrival of all that potential' he first saw in 'Slums,' Tamara Jenkins's coming-of-age story about a Jewish family in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. 'To be clear, I was madly in love with Kevin Corrigan,' Lyonne said. 'I mean, it was 1998, we all were. We still are.' In 'Slums,' Krumholtz played the annoying older brother of Lyonne's character. The shoot was intense, and he still thinks of her as family. 'She is sort of the closest thing to my biological Hollywood sister,' Krumholtz said. His 'Poker Face' turn was also a homecoming in another way: It was directed by Adam Arkin, an executive producer of the series, who is the son of Alan Arkin, who played the father in 'Slums.' 'It wasn't lost on me that fans would watch this episode and recognize the reunion and then in a nostalgic way romanticize 'Slums of Beverly Hills,'' Krumholtz said. 'And it's a movie that should be romanticized.' Even for people on set who aren't technically part of the reunions, it can be heartwarming to watch them happen. 'The rotating cast of this show means it is a little bit like an episode of 'This Is Your Life,'' Johnson said. 'I definitely feel emotions when I see, like, Clea and Natasha working on set together.' Lyonne is just happy to be in a place where she can call on her buddies and give them a fun gig and credit in the process. 'I'm so grateful to be the guy who knocks,' she said. 'As a self-made teenager doing the family taxes at 12 years old, maybe it's capitalism that grinds into us this concept of competition instead of collaboration. We think it's each man for himself and, like, that's America, that's showbiz, kid. But it's actually not, is it?'
