Natasha Lyonne is slouching on a low-slung office couch, talking about how we’re all going to die.
From the street, the building we’re in looks like a triangular blue-gray hunk of nothing special. But inside, the historic Mack Sennett Studios in L.A.’s Silver Lake neighborhood—which was built in 1916 for the pre-talkie era—has a glamorous, eclectic feel, full of creatives-at-work paraphernalia and black-and-white photographs of silent film stars. This is the home of Animal Pictures, Lyonne’s production company.
