Rose Byrne, Alia Shawkat and Rachel Sennott lead the stars attending day three of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. On Saturday, high-profile celebrities flocked events held by ...
This could be her chance to get cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic timing works well at the beginning of Atropia; the actress is clearly having fun playing an aspiring star ...
Brought in for his lived knowledge of what the troops will face over there, Fayruz looks at Abu and immediately senses him as a threat to her theatric domination—it’s a real “Sam & Diane” hate-to-love ...
I often find it fascinating when Hollywood teams up with the US military to promote propaganda or even to inform us about historical secrets that have long been buried. For her feature directorial ...
Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat, witnessing U.S. troops rolling through her hometown in pursuit of a suspect right as ...
Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her big break in Hollywood while working in the simulation, despite her conflicting feelings about the war in Iraq.
Reality blurs with performance and even love is just another scripted role in the big Sundance winner of 2025, 'Atropia.' ...
Logline: When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. Welcome to ...
Enter: Fayruz (Alia Shawkat), an Iraq-ish striver who came to California in the hopes of becoming a famous Hollywood actress. Instead, she wound up in “The Box,” playing an Atropian DVD seller ...
In our lively interview with Turner, costar Alia Shawkat, and director Hailey Gates at the IndieWire Studio at Sundance, presented by Dropbox, Shawkat reveals her mom once thought she couldn't act.