Natasha Lyonne achieved her highest acclaim with Russian Doll, a TV series based on her own near-death experiences. Here, she opens up about that low point in her life, how she maintains her female friendships, and “spiritual mathematics”“I HAVEN’T DONE one of these BUST interviews in almost 20 years!” says Natasha Lyonne, star and co-creator of Netflix’s Russian Doll, as she settles in for our chat in a Los Feliz studio following her BUST cover shoot.
Tenacity, hard-won sobriety, and undeniable talent prevailed when Lyonne, defying the predictions of every snarky Hollywood gossip columnist, solidified a full-fledged comeback with her portrayal of inmate Nicky Nichols in Netflix’s Orange is the New Black in 2013.
Lyonne says making Russian Doll’s first season, particularly moments like “being in the darkness of the editing room with the footage of my best friend in the role of my mother, talking to a young me,” was also painful at times. “It was all very, y’know, meta, the whole thing. It’s like brain-breaking, soul-harrowing work.”
In the last year, Lyonne has also directed episodes of Russian Doll, OITNB, and Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, the Comedy Central series created by another former BUST cover star, and she plans to direct her own feature in the near future. When deciding which projects to undertake, Lyonne keeps one thing in mind, “I like to be in communication with us, directly—those of us who’ve felt like outsiders.
Reporting from the other side, Lyonne thinks society has recently made great progress on this front. “I’m so proud of all of us and what we’ve been able to accomplish as a team,” says Lyonne. “What women have done over these last maybe three years of reclaiming our space and sort of saying that it’s OK that we’re all shapes and sizes. It’s OK that we have all kinds of different personalities—you can be shy, talk a lot, or do whatever you want to do. There’s been this palpable, tangible shift.
Lyonne credits young people for the shift she’s noticing in popular culture and society. “I really adore young people,” she says. “I like to think of myself as an ancient millennial but I love when there are 25-year-olds in my life, because they’re so cool. They have all these ideas and the younger generation is declaring all these things unacceptable—and they’re correct.
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