Traffic at the Laughlin Bridge was limited to one lane for eight hours on Sept. Its rooftop sign was replaced in postproduction - kind of the way the Palazzo became the Palmetto on HBO Max’s Emmy-winning “Hacks” or how downtown’s Plaza became Biff’s Pleasure Paradise in “Back to the Future Part II.”Īfter shooting the rest of the 10-episode series, the cast and crew reconvened in Laughlin, Johnson confirmed in a Twitter post, to film around town. While the interiors of the casino were filmed on sets built in upstate New York, Don Laughlin’s Riverside Resort stood in for the casino’s exteriors. Charlie eventually was found out and blackballed, though, which led to her living in a rusty trailer in the desert and slinging drinks at the Frost Casino. It served her well, for a time, in poker rooms across the country.
But the town serves as the inspiration, as well as the site of exterior filming, for the home of cocktail waitress Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne).Ĭharlie has a gift: She can tell when someone is lying. “Poker Face” even goes out of its way to camouflage its setting.
Laughlin looms large over “Poker Face,” the high-profile new drama from writer-director Rian Johnson (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”). The Riverside hotel-casino in Laughlin on Saturday, Aug.
