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14 details you may have missed in 'Russian Doll' season 2

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="13473956" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russian-doll" source="Orion">Russian Doll</keyword>" star <keyword id="13680316" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="charlie-barnett" source="Orion">Charlie Barnett</keyword> said that his "favorite moment" on set was when they had a rave.</li><li>Barnett told Insider that the wacky scene gave him "an excuse to be whatever I wanted to be."</li></ul>The new season of "Russian Doll" expands from its intimate New York setting to vast locations that range from East Germany in the 1960s to a psychedelic rave in Bulgaria.The Netflix hit series is focused on time travel, rather than time loops, in its second season as both Nadia (<keyword id="13658697" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="natasha-lyonne" source="Orion">Natasha Lyonne</keyword>) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) delve into their family histories four years after they helped each other escape death.After accidentally stumbling into 1982, and into the body of her mother Lenora (Chloë Sevigny), Nadia discovers her family's long-lost fortune and does all she can to try and change the past and her present.Meanwhile, Alan, who is in 1962 East Berlin in the body of her grandmother Agnes (Carolyn Michelle Smith), just wants to enjoy the ride.Among the soul-searching scenes, there are moments that are purely bizarre and inexplainable such as the aforementioned rave scene, which occurs in episode four.After taking DMT, a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug, Nadia is thrust into a montage where she experiences multiple deaths and transforms into her younger self, only to return to the present day again. She also makes out with Alan in a strobe-light illuminated bunker set to a remix of "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode.Barnett told Insider that this was one of his favorite scenes because he could use "Nadia's crazy drug-filled world" as an "excuse" to do anything. The "Russian Doll" star also shared why he was "surprised" to return for season two and his initial annoyance with his character.<h2>Charlie Barnett told Insider that he was pissed at Alan for risking his grandmother's life in season 2</h2><div type="image" title="Russian Doll" height="1800" width="2400" msid="91009594" hostid="261"></div>When it comes to shows like "Russian Doll," there are moments that can be confusing, such as the rules of time travel. How did you react when you got the script for season 2 and saw where the characters were going next?After last season, I will admit, upfront I didn't know if I had a place. I didn't know if Alan's storyline was gone. I wasn't sure what Natasha and [co-creators] Leslye [Headland] and <a href="https://www.insider.com/amy-poehler-lucille-ball-directing-lucy-and-desi-2022-3">Amy [Poehler]</a> were thinking in the next season. So I kind of went into it thinking that I wasn't invited. So coming into the second season, I was just surprised to be a part of it initially.And the time jumping, Natasha and Leslye and Amy have a great way of taking those tropes and flipping them. They always add some sort of surprising element so that it's not what you've always imagined. And that's what really, really excited me. I didn't see all of them at first. I will admit, reading through that script they're hidden. They're kind of like Easter eggs. You can watch it a million times, you know, and there's something new that will pop out. My partner was like explaining something at the end of last season that I was like, "Holy shit." I did not even see that until four years later and I'm the one in it. And he's like, "I thought that's what you were doing," but that's the beauty of art.<div type="image" title="Russian Doll" height="1800" width="2400" msid="91009595" hostid="261"></div>"Russian Doll" season two is filled with more bizarre moments than the first. For example, at the beginning of episode six, Nadia literally gives birth to herself while in her mother's body. How did you react to those stranger moments?I'll tell you my favorite one: This is pretty shameful but my favorite one is Nadia's tripping scene when they're in Budapest and she falls through the bed. We filmed that in a World War II bunker 90 feet underground and we had a rave down there. It was fucking awesome. It was also one of those days that we didn't have to do any serious scenes so I was like, "Oh, I'm gonna get crazy in this."It's also not really attached to Alan. Everybody keeps thinking, "Did y'all have an orgy at one point in this show?" And it's like well, yes. I guess. But side note, it's not [the real] world. It's Nadia's crazy drug-filled world...so I had a little bit of an excuse to be whatever I wanted to be in that place.When your character travels back in time to 1962, Alan is put in the body of his grandmother, Agnes, who is a Ghanaian woman studying in East Berlin on a scholarship. During the season, we see Alan fall for his grandmother's lover Lenny (Sandor Funtek), a German man who wants to escape to West Berlin to be with his family. What was the preparation for that role like? Did you do a lot of research?Of course. I started really from a group that came from Congo [to East Berlin]. It was nine men and one woman and I was always fascinated by that story. She had a couple of writings, but there's not a lot known about her.East Berlin started to reach out to many other countries in order to establish a communist kind of relationship with other nations. They reached out to nations in Africa and tried to work on science and mathematics scholarships in order to get students from African nations over to East Berlin.I was interested to see what challenges an individual woman of color in this country, [who was] surrounded by other men [had] because lord knows...In reading this script for the second season, I got really pissed at Alan in the beginning because I was like, "You are full-on taking advantage of this Black woman's life and risking it as well. And on top of it, it is your grandmother. You're not taking the care and consideration. If a white man is kissing you in the hallway, what is the risk that's around there? Not necessarily for him more for you." In East Berlin, I just found myself being like, he is running rampant and he needs to take a step back. Ultimately, it's an interesting storyline but I was frustrated with that one.<h2>Charlie Barnett said he pushed for more uncomfortable scenes between Agnes and the police to make it more realistic</h2><div type="image" title="Russian Doll" height="2394" width="3191" msid="91009596" hostid="261"></div>Whenever it comes to time traveling with people of color, it can be nerve-wracking.It's dangerous. You feel like, "Oh shit, where are we gonna go? And what's gonna happen?" Natasha and I talked about all these things. There was a lot of me pushing. I remember one of the moments when the police come and I was like, "Natasha, this needs to be more honest. These policemen are not just gonna be like, "Hello woman. You're so pretty and sweet.'"They would not be saying that shit. If they did, it would have an air of "What the fuck are you asking for?" just in reciprocation for me. I, as a person of color in this day and age, am still afraid of those kinds of moments. So how would it be avoided then?You were talking about your relationship with Natasha earlier. She is the star of the show, co-creator, and took over the lead showrunner role from Headland in season 2, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/in-russian-doll-natasha-lyonne-barrels-into-the-past">The New Yorker reported.</a> What is it like working with her? Do you have like a favorite interaction with her?It's hard to pick one story because this show is fucking crazy. We block shoot most of it. So it's always like, "Am I doing the right thing? I don't know where I am. I'm calling home to cry and be like, I'm a failure. What the fuck am I doing?" And then I'm learning that part of that energy and that emotion should feed into Allen. I had a lot of fun doing that rave scene with Natasha. She kissed me at one point. We had a sex scene in our first season, but it felt so intimate at that moment in the basement [in season two].She's in such a different place as a leader at this point during her second season, so much more comfortable and aware. I believe so much in her abilities and I want to see her go so fucking far. So it's always an honor to work with her as challenging as it can be.This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length. The second season of "Russian Doll," also starring Greta Lee and Annie Murphy, is available on Netflix.

'Russian Doll' star Charlie Barnett says a rave scene gave him an 'excuse' to have an 'intimate' kiss with Natasha Lyonne

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Louis CK recently announced a new comedy special and today <a href="https://louisck.net/purchase/live-at-the-comedy-store">it's available for you to purchase for only $5. </a>
The announcement was made on his site a few weeks ago and those who pre-ordered the special, entitled "Louis CK Live At The Comedy Store" were emailed the download link today.
Anyone who is subscribed to his email list got the go-ahead to download and watch.
The email to customers says:
Well, I made another standup special. It's called "Louis CK Live at the Comedy Store". You can buy it right now on my website, <a href="http://louisck.net/" target="_blank">louisck.net</a>, for 5 dollars, all over the world. Here's the link. I hope this is well timed for some of you who are stranded by the storm in the North East of America.
That's the basic news of this email so go ahead and go watch the show. Youre getting another email from me now which is crazily long. So I sent it separate. If you don't enjoy long winded, unedited coffee-addled, had to shit the whole time while my kids yelled at me to take them sledding-written material, then skip the next email. thanks. Louis CK
He also sent another long email to those who purchased the show. Here's the full text. It's really long.
Hello. So below are my messy thoughts about my new special "Louis CK live at the Comedy Store" available here <a href="https://louisck.net/purchase/live-at-the-comedy-store" target="_blank">https://louisck.net/purchase/live-at-the-comedy-store</a> for 5 dollars, all over the world... So this is my sixth hour-long standup special. The truth is, I really love making these. I skipped doing one last year and I missed it. This one is different from the recent others. For one thing, it was shot in a nightclub instead of a theater. I love doing the theater shows. When I was a kid, my favorite thing in the world was Richard Pryor's concert films. The idea of being a comedian and doing a "concert" was a real goal for me. Performing in a theater expands your material and opens you up as a performer. The pressure of playing to thousands of people, I found, always makes you better. And every concert hall I've played has made me feel like I'm getting a whiff of that city or town's history. The whole thing can be very exhilarating. But Nightclubs, comedy clubs, is where comedy is born and where comedy, standup comedy, truly lives. Going back to Abraham Lincoln, who was probably America's first comedian, Americans have enjoyed gathering at night in small packed (and once smokey) rooms, drinking themselves a bit numb and listening to each other say wicked, crazy, silly, wrongful, delightful, upside-down, careless, offensive, disgusting, whimsical things. Sometimes in long-winded, red faced hyperbole, sometimes in carefully crafted circular, intentionally false and misleading argument. Sometimes in well-chiseled perfectly timed trickery of verbiage. Pun-poetry. One line, one off, half thoughts. Half truths. Non-truths. Broad and hilariously wrongful generalizations, exaggerated prejudices and criticism of nothing and everything while a couple over here shares a pitcher of sangria, this table of guys order round after round of beers. These women over here are having vodka and cranberry. This guy drinks club soda and sits alone. He actually came for the comedy. It's a club. It's a bar. It's late at night. No one here is being responsible. These are the things we do when we are DONE working and being citizens. We go to a comedy club and pay a bit of money to laugh harder than we ever do anywhere else. That is the standup comedy that I've been doing for almost thirty years. I have been working theater (and now arena) stages for the last nine of those thirty years but the amount of hours I've spent on a club stage outnumber the theater stage hours by more than I can figure. I've been on comedy club stages probably more than I've stood on any other kind of spot in my entire life. I started in the Boston comedy scene, on ground that had been laid by great comedians like Steve Sweeney, Steven Wright, Barry Crimmins, Ron Lynch, Kevin Meany, Don Gavin, back in 1985 when I was 18 years old. I skipped college (still regret it), worked shitty jobs (will never regret that) and spent every single night at any comedy club in Boston I could finagle my way into. I would watch every single comedian and I would BEG to get on stage. In 1989 I moved to New York. I discovered a bursting comedy club scene, where you could literally do 8 shows on a saturday night. (I remember Ray Romano held the record at 9 shows). It was a glorious time for standup comedy clubs. Great comics everywhere. Colin Quinn. Mike Sweeney. Joy Behar. John Stewart. Charlie Barnett. Ray Romano. Dave Chapelle. Chris Rock. Brett Butler. Brian Regan. All working out every night in clubs all over the city. There was the Improv on 44th street. On 1st Avenue, Catch a Rising Star and around the corner on 2nd ave, the Comic Strip (still there). Carolines was on the Seaport then. And in the Village we had the Comedy Cellar (still there), the Boston Comedy Club and the Village Gate. I spent my early twenties bouncing from one stage to the other, from 8pm till about 4am, when Dave Attell, Kevin Brennan, Nick DiPaolo and I would head to a diner and eat breakfast. The money was terrible. About ten dollars per show on the weeknights, fifty a show on the weekends. So every other week you had to leave town and work in another city. You'd go live in Atlanta, Columbus, Phoenix, Tampa, for a week. Most clubs would put you up in a condo behind the club and you'd work the whole week. Tuesday thru Sunday, two shows Friday, three shows Saturday. You could make about 700 a week as an opening act. A good headliner might make 2500 or 3,000 but that was rare. I worked in comedy clubs all over the country and I think I actually remember every single club. My favorite clubs were the smelly little beer soaked places with dim lighting and low ceilings. Go Bananas in Cincinnati. The Brokerage in Long Island (still there) Penguins in Cedar Rapids. The Comedy Underground in Seattle. Then there were chain comedy clubs that were always too antiseptic and suburban. Some of them were literally inside of a mall next to a sunglass hut. The Improvs, the Funny Bones. There were some comedy clubs around the country that were legendary. That lasted out the death of comedy in the 90s. The independent and truly great rooms where you can still smell the cigarette smoke exhaled by Bill Hicks. The Acme in Minneapolis. The Punchline in Atlanta. The Punchline (not related) in San Francisco. Cobbs in San Fran. The Laff Stop in Houston. Zanies in Chicago. Charlie Goodnights in Raleigh. The Comedy Works in Denver. These were the Meccas. When you could get a week at Acme, you know you could continue having the will to do this shit for another few months. A week at the Punchline in San Fran could get you through the next week at Harvey's in Portland. There were club owners that were part of Comedy History. Who knew how to shape comedy. Mark Babbit, Lewis Lee, Manny Dworman, Lucien Hold, Silver Friedman, Bud Friedman, Ron Osborne, others. I spent all of my mid to late 20s and thirties working out in places like these. Later when I moved to Los Angeles, I discovered a scene out there that was creative and fun and also steeped in show business history. You could see Norm Macdonald. Charles Fleicher. Robert Schimmel. In LA they have coffee houses and very cool rooms like Largo, where you can bring your notebook on stage and try just about anything. People like Andy Kindler, Kathy Griffin, Patton Oswalt, Blaine Capatch, Craig Anton, Laura Kightlinger did outrageous stuff in those rooms. I would sometimes go on stage at places like Mbar or Largo and come out with twenty minutes of new material, cheered on by the young, open and adaptive crowds of the "alternative" scene. But I never believed those jokes until I took them to the Improv, where the more average and basic character of the audience would cut the new material down to about three jokes. And then there was the Comedy Store. I would take the last three remaining jokes to the store on Sunset. Maybe ONE of those would get a chuckle. And that joke, I knew, was the true treasure of the night. I have always found the Comedy Store to be the most intimidating club of my life. It is what I thought comedy clubs to be when I listened to Lenny Bruce records as a kid. The black vinyl couches and chairs, the red formica stage. Andrew Dice Clay on stage playing to fifteen people in open defiance of their hatred and funny as hell. The Comedy Store is really show biz. As in Milton Berle with his bow tie undone around his neck show business. Mop your brow and say "tough crowd" show business. A guy being beaten up in the parking lot show business. The Comedy Store is where Pryor cut his teeth. Letterman fought to get spots there. George Carlin. Eddie Murphy. Marc Maron told me stories about living in the apartment behind the Store and how Sam Kinison pissed on his bed one night. This is the Comedy Store. The wonderful dark side of comedy. The Comedy Store is the only club in the country that NEVER passed me when I auditioned. I auditioned at many clubs where I didn't pass but I always went back and finally did pass. The Comedy Store NEVER passed me. I just wasn't right for them. I didn't start working there until I became well known enough to circumvent the audition process. Until I became one of those guys who can just walk into a nightclub and go on stage. So why did I shoot my new special in this place? I don't know. Maybe because, after thirty years of doing comedy, the most exciting feeling for me is going on stage, not entirely sure it's going to go well. To this day, when I work at the Store, I feel there's a one in three chance I might bomb. Like bomb hard. To a guy my age who has been doing it this long, that is exciting. So over the last tour I did this year, I started doing shows at the Comedy Store "Main room" to feel it out. The staff of the club is excellent and they really know how to run a traditional room. I loved working with them. Pauly Shore and his family were very gracious when we approached them about shooting my special there. I really feel truly privileged to have shot this special on that stage. Okay I didn't mean to write such a long thing about comedy clubs. The point is I prepared the material for this special on club stages. I went to the Cellar here in New York, and their new club, The Village Underground, about ten times a week with the occasional trip uptown to Gotham Comedy Club and "The Stand" on third avenue. I went out to LA to put that spin on it, working Largo, the Improv and finally the Comedy Store, hammering this stuff together in front of late night comedy club audiences. So it only seemed right to shoot it that way. That's all. I hope you enjoy the special. Please see the movie "Boyhood". It's a great piece of filmmaking and even literature. And take your kids to see "Into The Woods" It teaches the greatest lesson you could teach a kid: If you are paying attention, life is very confusing. Thanks. Louis CK ps. I guess I didn't have to cancel the show at MSG tonight. I don't blame the mayor. That storm was a monster. We got lucky. When you consider the action taken by the government of entire north east, they got it right. To expect accuracy from each individual mayor is just too much. For us in New York and us in my house and us at MSG it was overblown. But if you expand that "us" to everyone in the path is the storm, they were spot on. My family in Boston is part of us for me. So that's how I look at it.
<a href="https://louisck.net/purchase/live-at-the-comedy-store">You can purchase the show here.</a>

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