natasha lyonne

VALENTINO FALL/WINTER 2026 INTERFERENZE COLLECTION

interview and photography

by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

The American actress, director, and producer has built a vibrant artistic community rooted in friendship, humor, and collaboration. She embraces technological change with rebellious imagination, believing peace starts through collective creativity.

Natasha Lyonne talks the way she lives: funny, profane, and brilliantly associative. She moves effortlessly from quantum physics to George Harrison, Russian Doll, cigarettes, Schrödinger’s cat, and Ariadne, her new independent studio. Beneath the humor lies a serious conviction: creativity can only survive through friendship, community, and radical freedom. Rather than simply creating a production company, she imagines Ariadne as a collective — an evolving network of artists, musicians, filmmakers, and thinkers committed to protecting human imagination in an age of AI, surveillance, and technological control.

So, when Natasha speaks of John Lennon and Yoko Ono “trying to build Nutopia,” she is speaking metaphorically but accurately. They…