"Poker Face" Season 2 has finally hit Peacock, and while we’ve thus far only been treated to the first three episodes, they feature some A+ guest stars. Right off the bat, we have Cynthia Erivo playing a whopping five different characters, and that story is followed by Giancarlo Esposito and Katie Holmes sharing the stage. This is Holmes’ first live-action TV show appearance since 2017, and oh boy, it's a bonkers one. According to the showrunner, this was the intention, as he wanted to show a side of Katie Holmes we’ve “never seen from her before.”
The episode stars Katie Holmes as the wife of a funeral home owner/director who is fed up with her sheltered, conservative life of applying makeup to the deceased. Taken by the glitz and glamour of filmmaking as a movie is filmed on the mortuary's property, she starts to catch up on the social life she’s been deprived of with a childlike enthusiasm – and the odd contrast makes for a performance unlike anything we’ve ever seen from Holmes. I recently caught up with Season 2 showrunner Tony Tost to talk all things "Poker Face", and when the subject of Katie Holmes came up, he told us that this was exactly the intention.
The episode stars Katie Holmes as the wife of a funeral home owner/director who is fed up with her sheltered, conservative life of applying makeup to the deceased. Taken by the glitz and glamour of filmmaking as a movie is filmed on the mortuary's property, she starts to catch up on the social life she’s been deprived of with a childlike enthusiasm – and the odd contrast makes for a performance unlike anything we’ve ever seen from Holmes. I recently caught up with Season 2 showrunner Tony Tost to talk all things "Poker Face", and when the subject of Katie Holmes came up, he told us that this was exactly the intention.
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00:00i was wondering if you learned anything about her you didn't know before her coming in
00:03i think i think we all got excited about the ideas like yeah we haven't seen katie holmes
00:08in this type of role and i really think katie and you know natasha directed that episode i think
00:16natasha very much um encouraged katie to just to go for it to try things like it was very much like
00:25we're not we didn't cast you to you know replicate some previous performance you've done
00:32like what we we want because we think you could bring something really interesting and and do
00:36something maybe you haven't done before and that was i think very much the informing attitude so i'm
00:40really excited to hear that you had that response because i felt the same way on says just like oh
00:44i haven't seen this from her before and it's it's interesting and it's and it's unexpected it's
00:49grounded but it's it's in the best way an oddness to to her character or performance or an
00:54unexpectedness that you don't necessarily she she wouldn't necessarily come first in in mind for
00:59that type of performance yeah it almost reminded me of like a jennifer coolidge and parker posey
01:03and white lotus type thing where it's yeah yeah no no totally i mean yeah the yeah that that um
01:09the parker posey is a in particular an interesting yeah that kind of energy that kind of like she could
01:16do anything at any time it's in the character but like yeah that um unpredictability that she brought