Columbo <\/em>inspiration of all of it, and the trick in the case of writing for the deadpan and blunt Lyonne:<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cSo much of that, that gate, that cadence, that way of looking, the line delivery, that\u2019s all Natasha. That\u2019s 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\u2026try not to overdirect her on the page; let her go and stay out of the way of it.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tTost\u2019s function directorial debut, Americana, <\/em>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.<\/p>\n\n\tHere\u2019s our dialog with Tost:<\/p>\n