Rosie O'Donnell hopes U.S. politics improve enough for her to guest star on Poker Face

“I was supposed to do, right before I left, an episode of Poker Face,” O’Donnell tells Variety in a new interview. “I’m hoping that I’ll be able to do that, although I don’t know — with the current political climate, when would it be safe to come back with my child? I’m not going to push it before this administration is completely finished, and hopefully held accountable for their crimes.”

Much of the rest of the interview unpacks O’Donnell’s decision to leave for Ireland, a decision she says she has “[n]ever, for one moment” regretted. “People have been so welcoming, so accepting, and they have a different view of celebrity in the culture here. They are not prioritized over other people,” O’Donnell reflects. “People are much more friendly and intimate with each other in a real way. Every time I go into the pharmacy, I fall in love, because the pharmacist talks to you.” As nice as Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson might be, that does sound pretty hard to beat.