During the early a part of Tony Tost‘s writing career, he was a poet and an academic, however, he found a way to TV writing thanks to his pal, True Detective co-creator Nic Pizzolatto. He tells us about his journey and offers up writing advice to aspiring writers on today’s Crew Call.
The Poker Face showrunner will get a written by credit score for episode 5 in season 2, “Hometown Hero”. Poker Face creator Rian Johnson needed to set an episode of the Natasha Lyonne slacker clairvoyant collection on the planet of minor league baseball.
“Hometown Hero” follows a used-to-be-a-contender 100mph pitcher Russ Waddell (Simon Rex) whose dangerous dropping streak practically places his minor league crew out of enterprise. He’s given discover by the sofa. He then bands together with his crew members to wager on their dropping streak to make an unlimited sum of cash. A brand new firecracker pitcher enters the scene. There’s black mail and homicide, and it’s a must to watch the episode on Peacock to search out out what occurs. In the combination Lyonne’s Charlie Cale. Tost and Johnson took inspiration for the episode from the John Huston directed 1972 boxing film Fat City about two boxers who involves blows as their careers take totally different instructions.
Tost takes us into the writing means of Poker Face, what Johnson appears for, the Columbo inspiration of all of it, and the trick in the case of writing for the deadpan and blunt Lyonne:
“So much of that, that gate, that cadence, that way of looking, the line delivery, that’s all Natasha. That’s what she brings. We try not to overindex it in the script not overwrite it. We do our underwritten version of it. Natasha comes in and tweaks the dialogue…try not to overdirect her on the page; let her go and stay out of the way of it.”
Tost’s function directorial debut, Americana, starring Sydney Sweeney and Paul Walter Hauser, hits theaters by way of Lionsgate on Aug. 22. The film which world premiered at SXSW 2023, follows the lives of native outsiders and outcasts who violently intertwine when a uncommon Lakota Ghost shirt falls onto the black market in a small South Dakota city.
Here’s our dialog with Tost: