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Time Magazine
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
2025 Emmy Nominations: 5 Egregious Snubs and 5 Fun Surprises
Another Emmy season is off to the races as of Tuesday morning, with what turned out to be a fairly predictable list of 2025 nominees that heavily favors returning series. The Television Academy loves The White Lotus, Severance, Abbott Elementary, Hacks, The Bear? Tell me something I don't know. But mixed in among the Pedro Pascals and Jean Smarts and the Martin Shorts we always knew were going to get nominated are some truly wonderful surprises—along with some truly infuriating, if you're the type to get worked up about such trivialities, exclusions. Below are five of each. 5 Egregious Exclusions The Pitt was one of this morning's big winners, as was widely predicted, scoring 13 nominations including drama series, lead actor (Noah Wyle), and supporting actress (Katherine LaNasa)—all richly deserved. Conspicuously absent from the list, however, was Taylor Dearden's breakout performance as Dr. Mel King, a sensitive and apparently neurodivergent young resident who cares for an autistic sister. As Sarah Kurchak wrote for TIME in an appreciation of the character and Dearden's portrayal of her: 'What makes Dr. King such a refreshing change from the old autistic-coded tropes, though, are the range of characteristics she embodies, how they're integrated into her character, and how she's incorporated into the show.' Lyonne earned a nomination for her lead performance in this delightful Columbo homage's first season, on top of three nods for previous roles, so it's not like the Academy has some vendetta against her. Which makes it all the more confusing why she didn't earn any recognition for Poker Face's delightful second season, even if the category is particularly stacked this year. As its only consistent cast member, Lyonne is basically the whole show. Few actors have the personality to pull that off. Nor is she just coasting on charisma. This season's recently concluded arc also required her to bear the emotional weight of the many murders she's solved, in a reckoning that allowed viewers to glimpse a darker, more vulnerable Charlie Cale. Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder are the heart of Hacks; no one's debating that, and Einbinder's nomination in particular (always as a supporting actress, in a bit of perhaps-justifiable category fraud) makes me hopeful she'll take home her first trophy for a performance that gets better every season (Smart already has three lead actress wins). But the show has also increasingly thrived on the odd-couple chemistry between co-creator Downs, who plays Hollywood's gentlest manager, and breakout star Stalter as his assistant turned partner. Especially since Hacks has been an Emmy darling for its entire run—and both Downs and Stalter had buzz for their superior work in Season 4—it's disappointing to see them excluded. Petticrew gave a breathtaking, multifaceted performance as real-life IRA militant Dolours Price, in a role that required her to do everything from hold up a bank in a nun costume to, in one harrowing episode, endure force feeding during a prison hunger strike. She absolutely deserved a nomination in a category where marquee names seemed to outweigh transcendent work (Cate Blanchett and Meghann Fahy were fine in mediocre shows; if Black Mirror weren't an anthology, Rashida Jones' role would've been classified as a guest appearance). But my frustration at her absence is also annoyance that FX's raw and timely adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's nonfiction book on the Troubles was overlooked in favor of stuff like Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story and The Penguin. Speaking of The Penguin, make this make sense: Colin Farrell earns a lead actor nod for growling under pounds of latex. Deirdre O'Connell gets a supporting actress mention for doing a broad imitation of Nancy Marchand's performance as Tony's nightmare mother on The Sopranos. (Both O'Connell and Farrell are great performers! But this is some of their least notable work.) The Penguin, simplistic as it is, earns more nominations (24) than any other show except Severance (27). Yet somehow there's no room for Rhenzy Feliz, who had to play opposite a protagonist whose face was buried in makeup and still managed—alongside duly deserving lead actress nominee Cristin Milioti—to give the series an emotional center? 5 Wonderful Surprises Aduba elevates everything she appears on, and in the case of Shondaland's flawed but fun White House whodunit, her detective heroine is as crucial to the show's appeal as Lyonne's is to Poker Face. In lesser hands, an eccentric-yet-brilliant birder like Cordelia Cupp would've felt cartoonish. But Aduba brought out the human vulnerability behind the confident veneer, giving us a complex protagonist we could really root for to solve an otherwise forgettable murder case. The creator as well as the star of this vicious, often wickedly funny Irish crime dramedy, Horgan deserves many accolades for delivering a second season that (mostly) worked on the heels of what felt like a perfectly contained limited series. In front of the camera, she's equally great as the eldest—and surrogate mother—of five raucous, haunted, profoundly trauma-bonded adult sisters. Horgan's Eva Garvey is funny and nurturing and grounded but also quite lonely and bitter, a character whose love and bile hold Bad Sisters together. The Emmys sure do love Severance. But in Season 1, only the big-name actors—Adam Scott, John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken—got nominations, leaving some of the show's best performances unrecognized. This time around, pundits rightly predicted that their breakout co-stars Britt Lower and Tramell Tillman would finally get some acknowledgment. What they didn't foresee was that they'd be joined by Zach Cherry, whose expanded dual role as innie and outie versions of Dylan yielded some of the second season's most wrenching moments. Praise Kier! I enjoyed Tina Fey's update of the '80s Alan Alda rom-com, but I would hesitate to call it her best work, so I can't really fault the Academy for largely ignoring it. Happily, they did choose the right performance to nominate in the endlessly versatile Domingo's supporting role as an accomplished architect whose platonic-soulmate relationship with Fey's character and rocky marriage to a flamboyant Italian man give him far more depth than the typical gay best friend. Look, do I wish Somebody Somewhere had been nominated in every single category it was eligible for? Do its dynamic star, Bridget Everett, and the magnetic presence that is Murray Hill deserve a nod just as much as Hiller? Should this show, canceled after three seasons, ideally continue for the rest of its characters' natural lives? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Still: Somebody Somewhere has never moved the Emmy needle in the past, so it's a thrill to see it get some recognition for its third and final season. And it's particularly lovely that the focus of that recognition is Hiller, who was so excellent in a role that doubled as the show's warm, steady, sneakily optimistic, heart.
Elle
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
All About Natasha Lyonne's Boyfriend, Bryn Mooser
Actress Natasha Lyonne famously dated comedian Fred Armisen for a number of years, but fewer people know about her current relationship with media executive Bryn Mooser. The Russian Doll actress has been romantically linked to Mooser since 2023, soon after she admitted she and Armisen had split. While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in October of that year, Lyonne confirmed the break up when she was asked about whether she still lived in Los Angeles. 'I'm not. I had been there living with Fred and during COVID,' she replied, before joking, 'I honestly think we broke up because I wanted a swimming pool.' More seriously, she added, 'We love each other just about as much as two people can love each other and we're still talking all the time. But Freddy doesn't like a swimming pool. It might seem like a mundane reason for a breakup, but during that pandemic, you've got to get your laps—I'm like Burt Lancaster in The that's the real scandal. I guess I finally am an actual bicoastal.' Here's everything we know about Bryn Mooser and his relationship with Lyonne so far. Bryn Mooser is known as a director and producer, but also a business mogul, especially in regards to media companies. The 45-year-old co-founded Ryot, which focuses on documentaries with virtual and augmented reality, according to his IMDb page. He sold the company to Verizon in 2016, then launched another film and TV studio in 2019, XTR, which also focuses on non-fiction content. He became the CEO of Documentary+ in 2020, per SCMP. Mooser's documentary Body Team 12 won him an Emmy in 2015 and an Oscar nomination for producing. In 2019, he was nominated at the Oscars again for the documentary Lifeboat. Mooser also launched A.I. animation company Asteria Film with Lyonne in 2022, which they both claim is ethically sourced A.I. The pair knew of one another at least as early as 2022, in order to found their company. But rumors that Lyonne and Mooser were dating popped up in 2023, according to the Daily Mail. That was the year they started making appearances at red carpet events, including Macaulay Culkin's Walk of Fame ceremony, followed by the 2024 Golden Globes, the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards, the SNL 50th Anniversary Special, the Chanel Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner, and Vanity Fair's Golden Globe party. At the ISAs, Lyonne told photographers, 'I think I will take a boyfriend picture, thank you so much,' inviting Moser to pose with her.
USA Today
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
How Natasha Lyonne is 'letting the sun in' with 'Poker Face' Season 2
How Natasha Lyonne is 'letting the sun in' with 'Poker Face' Season 2 Show Caption Hide Caption Need a show to binge? These are the must watch shows this summer USA TODAY's TV critic Kelly Lawler breaks down the best TV shows you don't to want to miss this summer Spoiler alert! The following story contains plot details of 'The Sleazy Georgian' episode of 'Poker Face' Season 2 (now streaming on Peacock). NEW YORK –– It's an overcast November morning on the set of 'Poker Face,' and Natasha Lyonne can't move her arms. The flame-haired actress is hunched over on a Brooklyn soundstage, which has been turned into a seedy, cigarette-stained hotel. She's shooting a scene from the murder mystery series' second season, in which amateur detective Charlie Cale (Lyonne) whips out a stack of dough from a satchel and smoothly fans out the cash. But the slick feat is tripping up Lyonne, 46, who's hampered by her snug, rust-colored jacket. 'This is maybe the craziest jacket I've worn in my entire life,' Lyonne quips between takes. 'It's real starchy, real '70s. I feel a bit like an Oompa Loompa that's also Ray Liotta in 'Goodfellas' in this outfit.' 'Poker Face' star Natasha Lyonne has always had 'a filmmaker's brain' The Peacock comedy is a revolving door of guest stars, welcoming the likes of Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney and Kumail Nanjiani this season. The latest episode (new installments stream weekly on Thursday) follows Charlie as she outwits a group of con artists led by the smarmy, double-crossing Guy (John Cho), who recognizes Charlie's uncanny ability for sniffing out lies and attempts to recruit her. Melanie Lynskey pops in as Regina, an excitement-starved woman who gets swept up by Guy's self-righteous Robin Hood act. Mimi Cave ('Holland') directed this particular "howdunit," although Lyonne did so for two other installments this season. The five-time Emmy nominee has directed several TV episodes since her career-revitalizing run in Netflix's 'Orange is the New Black,' and her keen instincts are on full display as she helps choreograph the money bag sequence. 'These guys don't fan in quite the way I would like,' Lyonne bemoans. She offers feedback on how best to frame a closeup of her hands, and asks the crew members on set how Charlie should react to seeing so much currency. ('Salivating? Wonder and delight, even?') 'Poker Face': Natasha Lyonne on the existential Season 2, Cynthia Erivo's many roles 'She has a filmmaker's brain,' says 'Poker Face' creator Rian Johnson. 'Her performance onscreen feels so off the cuff and breezy, where it seems like she's just riffing. But that's the product of a lot of concentrated work, which is why I love working with Natasha. She really sweats the details.' Lyonne considers herself 'a pretty for-real director at this point. Having now done it a bunch, I definitely understand or see things in terms of the shot or the edit.' She wears multiple hats on 'Poker Face' as an actress, director, writer and producer – an experience she likens to being a musician. 'I'm always listening to what the piece needs,' Lyonne says. 'I think the character I identify the most with at the moment is Jughead from the 'Archie' comics. He was a one-man band, but also a friend of the gang. He just kind of hung out and had instruments around.' The actress is game for 'Poker Face' Season 3 – or whatever comes next No longer on the run from casino mobsters, Charlie has instead turned to discovering her purpose in Season 2. She hits the open road in her beat-up Plymouth Barracuda, finding community with everyone from school custodians to minor league baseball players. Unlike Lyonne's lone wolf Nadia in Netflix's 2019-22 series 'Russian Doll,' Charlie has always been more of a people person, akin to Jeff Bridges' The Dude in 'The Big Lebowski.' 'Charlie has rubbed off on me in a major way,' Lyonne says. 'She's an optimist; she's on the case of whatever comes next. I think that's the beauty of what Rian was able to build with Charlie: Now we're letting the sun in.' A former child actress and fixture of 1990s independent film, Lyonne faced offscreen setbacks in the early 2000s as she struggled with substance abuse and resulting health challenges. 'Orange," in which she co-starred as hard-edged but lovable Nicky, put her back on Hollywood's radar in 2013, and she's since fostered a close-knit circle of collaborators including Johnson, Amy Poehler ('Russian Doll') and Brit Marling (the upcoming 'Uncanny Valley'). 'I think the reason people rediscovered me so late in the game is when I moved behind the scenes and started participating at inception to build a world and a character,' Lyonne says. 'For me, the joy of 'Poker Face' really is my time spent with Rian. That's where the magic of it lives.' In conversation, the raspy-voiced Manhattanite is prone to digressions, riffing on Charlie Chaplin, Elaine Stritch and the gentrification of her native New York. 'I see the youth today and I'm like, 'Wow, they really do shop online, huh?'' she laments. Then again, 'I'm too busy investigating cases on TV to really investigate the fashion aesthetics of Brooklyn.' Lyonne hopes that she and Johnson will make a 'Poker Face' Season 3, although if the pandemic and Hollywood strikes taught her anything, it's that you can't plan too far ahead. 'I've been doing this for 40 years, so I've never tried to play puppet master. What does Einstein say? 'God does not play dice?'' Lyonne says. 'I never really stress; it's always a third thing that occurs. I could be back on set with Rian tomorrow, or we could decide to make a movie spinoff of it. We'll all discover together what comes next.'
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch: Natasha Lyonne & Hannah Einbinder joke about scissoring & talk realistic queer sex scenes
Gay fave Natasha Lyonne and bisexual Hacks actress Hannah Einbinder just made the Hollywood Reporter's latest actor's roundtable delightfully queer with a hilarious scissoring joke, and just in time for Pride Month, too! Lyonne and Einbinder joined fellow stars Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along), Jessica Williams (Shrinking), Kristen Bell (The Good Place), and Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex) to talk about their careers and personal lives when the conversation veered toward LGBTQ+ representation in media. When asked what the actors have pushed for 'because it was something you needed to see at some point in your life,' Einbinder chimed in about her own experience being a bi actor after calling Lyonne her 'freaking queer icon.' Einbinder, who plays Ava Daniels on Hacks, credited the show with giving 'vivid life and a reality' to the bisexual character. 'We know that when people write to their own experience, something is just far more lived-in,' Einbinder said. 'And as a queer actor myself playing a queer character, I can add my, you know, zest. So, this season, there's a polyamory arc that is not the butt of a joke.' See on Instagram She said that there were queer shows and movie that paved the way for Hacks, but she's proud of the realistic representation the show provides. 'It warms my heart when I get messages from people who feel like this is an in-depth and non-fetishized representation of bisexuality,' Einbinder revealed. Then, Lyonne asked, 'Do you feel like this kind of a queer component is something that you've slowly laid in track for, or was it always embedded?' 'Oh, it's always been there. A lot of our writers room are writing to their own experiences. Everyone who's telling a story has an incredibly talented comedy writer to represent that lived experience,' Einbinder answered. The 30-year-old actress explained because of her own lived experience as a queer person she's able to point out places in the script that seem realistic. 'And it's this great symbiosis where, because I live a queer existence, I'm able to lend various [ideas], like, 'Well, I don't know if they would be, like, coming at the same time in the shower. Perhaps, like, one person is topping.'' Not one to let a good joke pass her by, while Einbinder said 'one person is topping,' the But I'm a Cheerleader star made the universal hand gesture for scissoring by making peace signs with both hands and then sliding them together. Trust Lyonne to always make the perfect sapphic joke!
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Natasha Lyonne: The Maverick Behind the Madness
On June 5, the IndieWire Honors Spring 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for some of the most impressive and engaging work of this TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire's editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the creators, artisans, and performers behind television well worth toasting. We're showcasing their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles event. A conversation with Natasha Lyonne is to experience a gravel-voiced one-woman film school with a carousel of cultural references that range from 'The Long Goodbye' to Lou Reed to quantum physics. More from IndieWire 'Stick' Review: Owen Wilson's Golf Comedy Takes Too Many Shortcuts Trying to Be 'Ted Lasso' Julianne Nicholson Was 'Paradise' Creator Dan Fogelman's Only Choice for His 'Complicated' Villain But what makes Lyonne singular (and why she's being recognized with the Maverick Award at this season's IndieWire Honors) is more than her encyclopedic mind or her distinct creative stamp. It's her ability to turn lived experience into genre-busting, soul-searching, radically original storytelling. In a TV landscape dominated by serialization, Lyonne and co-creator Rian Johnson took a left turn with Peacock's 'Poker Face,' a classic case-of-the-week mystery format with a twist. The heroine is Charlie Cale, a human lie detector with a beat-up car and an even more battered moral compass, and she's received plenty of 'Colombo' comparisons. 'It's quite intentional that I walk around like a rumpled detective,' Lyonne told IndieWire, 'but I'd say I've seen him in more Cassavetes films than 'Columbo' episodes, if I'm being honest. Which I might as well be, given the theme of the show.' As a result, 'Poker Face' doesn't feel like a riff or homage. She and Johnson developed a character who feels both timeless and unmistakably hers. 'It's not really about assessing the landscape,' Lyonne said. 'It's about inner curiosity. That's more likely to resonate than paperwork.' Lyonne's commitment to crafting characters with depth and agency began with co-creating Netflix's 'Russian Doll.' The mind-bending, Emmy-nominated series riffed on time loops and existential dread while feeling deeply personal. 'At the risk of sounding pedantic, I do think it's important to mention that — as it so often seems with women — someone assumes a character was created for them,' she said. 'Let's be really clear: That never occurred. This character exists because, like any good old-fashioned entrepreneur, I saw a void.' Lyonne was never going to fit in the 'beautiful, but she doesn't know it' roles. She's gorgeous but, with her wild red hair and irrepressible intellect, she doesn't look or sound like anyone who's unaware of exactly who she is. To find the work, Lyonne had to create it. 'In modern times, there were no women running around like Philip Marlowe on our screens. Surely, that was a hole I could fill,' she said with a laugh. 'I knew nobody was casting me as a 'Roller Girl' type, you know what I mean? That's Heather Graham's part, and Meryl Streep had her section. Well, I found mine in the basements of YMCAs and Murray Hill in Manhattan, where I would watch a lot of noir films alone in the middle of the day after I dropped out of Tisch.' 'Mae West made her choices,' she added. 'I made mine.' Lyonne builds her shows from the inside out. She's a writer, director, and producer with her own company, Animal Pictures, which she co-founded to support boundary-pushing creators. She's now prepping her first feature, 'Uncanny Valley,' which she's co-writing and directing with Brit Marling ('The OA'). Lyonne and Marling became fast friends after they were invited to a series of what Lyonne describes as 'backdoor Hollywood AI meetings.' 'I adore Brit Marling,' she said. 'She's a fucking genius. Because of our sci-fi leanings, we'd each developed a deep interest in this space. And in these meetings, it became clear that a lot of what was already happening was AI. Brit and I looked at each other and realized: this is real. It's fascinating. We're both interested in this, and we're both kind of punks, raising our eyebrows at how it's all going down. So we got this idea: attack it sideways and head-on. I think it's going to be a very cool movie.' In fact, she cracked, 'It's not announced yet, but Joe Pesci is the star of 'Uncanny Valley.' He plays my daughter. Thanks for this conversation, and thanks to IndieWire for this Maverick Award. As a maverick, it's really important that everyone knows Joe Pesci plays my daughter in 'Uncanny Valley.' It's been said, so now it's fact. Throw it on Wikipedia.' That kind of humor, bone-dry and self-aware, is part of what makes Lyonne's voice so necessary. But underneath it all is a deep understanding of what it means to survive, create, and evolve in an industry that rarely makes space for women like her. Her advice to others, particularly women taking creative control, is simple and hard-earned: Hang tight. Stick to your guns. Don't worry about being palatable, or overthink the wins and losses. 'It's all grist for the mill,' she said. 'Self-respect is the answer. And blood on the page.' That's why Natasha Lyonne is this year's Maverick. And why Joe Pesci better clear his schedule. 'There is no reality,' she said. 'It's what you make it. Where you're at dictates how you receive the world.' 'Poker Face' Season 2 is now streaming on Peacock. Best of IndieWire The Best Thrillers Streaming on Netflix in June, from 'Vertigo' and 'Rear Window' to 'Emily the Criminal' All 12 Wes Anderson Movies, Ranked, from 'Bottle Rocket' to 'The Phoenician Scheme' Nightmare Film Shoots: The 38 Most Grueling Films Ever Made, from 'Deliverance' to 'The Wages of Fear'
