It’s not my strong suit,” Sevigny said of the double act she performs this season, the details of which we won’t spoil here. All of the decade-hopping meant that Sevigny wasn’t always playing Nora, who was loosely inspired by Lyonne’s own late, estranged mother, Ivette Buchinger. Nadia doesn’t hitch a ride in a DeLorean, but hops on a magical subway that takes her back to the East Village in 1982, the year she was born, to stop her pregnant mom from making the biggest mistake of her-and Nadia’s-life. While the rules of time-travel in Russian Doll’s first season were reminiscent of Groundhog’s Day, the show’s second season has more in common with Back to the Future. “Often, it was like, ‘Who’s in charge here? Is this working?’” She laughs. “ duck out and I’d have to run in,” Sevigny said. “But almost immediately I was like, ‘This is not working.’ So then we had to choreograph the bit with someone off screen saying, ‘Now, move your hands this way!’ because a lot of it was really, like, rudimentary effects.” Two identical bathrooms were built so Sevigny and Lyonne could pull off the complicated comedy act using the “Texas Switch,” a filmmaking technique in which an actor is seamlessly swapped out of a scene for another performer as the camera keeps rolling. “At first we were trying to wing it,” Sevigny explained of the complicated Duck Soup-esque mirror routine she and Lyonne pull off in the season 2 premiere. The moment, played for pure comedy, forced Sevigny to channel her inner Marx Brother.
Yet, in the season 2 premiere, Nadia finds herself once again lost in time, staring at a bathroom mirror only to find her late mom, Lenora “Nora” Vulvokov (played by Sevigny), staring back at her. The fiery-haired New Yorker is no longer trapped in an endless existential death spiral, which forced her to relive her 36th birthday party over and over again. The new season, which takes place four years after the events of the first, begins with sweet birthday baby Nadia preparing for her big 4-0. In the second season of Russian Doll, Natasha Lyonne-the show’s creator, writer, director, and star-dives deeper into her character Nadia Vulvokov’s mommy issues.
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