THE PERFORMER | Yvonne Strahovski THE SHOW | Stateless (on Netflix) THE EPISODE | “The Circumstances in Which They Come” (July 8, 2020) THE PERFORMANCE | Stateless is problematic in how it uses a well-off white woman as an “entry point” to its harrowing tale of an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. That […]
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Yvonne Strahovski Escapes a Cult, Winds Up in Australian Detention Center, in Netflix’s Stateless Trailer
RELATED STORIES Yvonne Strahovski escapes one kind of hell only to land in another, in Netflix’s trailer for the Australian limited series Stateless. Inspired by a true story and premiering Stateside on Netflix on Wednesday, July 8, the six-part series promises “a powerful and timely tale” of four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration […]
The Handmaid’s Tale’s Yvonne Strahovski on Serena’s Crushing Regret, That Secret Phone and Why Canada Might Not Be an Option
RELATED STORIES Warning: This post contains spoilers from Season 3, Episode 5 of The Handmaid’s Tale. It seems that Serena Joy Waterford’s stint as a member of The Handmaid’s Tale‘s resistance has come to an abrupt halt. Was she caught aiding June? Did she lose yet another appendage to Gilead’s draconian punitive system? Nope: In […]
Leslie Bricusse and Yvonne Romain: Golden couple’s Hollywood greats
MARK KEHOE Leslie and Evie Bricusse got married 59 years ago After a morning in the company of the acclaimed songwriter, lyricist and writer, alongside his wife Evie, you feel like you’ve journeyed through the past half-century of showbusiness as they recall the characters they’ve met during 59 years of marriage. “We must sound like […]
Yvonne Strahovski Talks Playing 'One of the Bad Guys' in Handmaid's Tale
Chuck all of your perceptions about heroine-for-hire Yvonne Strahovski out the window before tuning into The Handmaid’s Tale. In Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dark, dystopian tale (premiering Wednesday), the actress co-stars as Commander Waterford’s (Joseph Fiennes) uncomfortably complicit wife Serena, a character Strahovski concedes is essentially “one of the bad guys.” And given the series’ eerily prescient theme of female […]
‘The Predator’ Asks Yvonne Strahovski to Get to the Chopper
When Shane Black revealed the cast of The Predator in a photo on Monday, one thing became abundantly clear: there was only one woman in that line-up of well-dressed and generally handsome gentlemen. But now, we know that Olivia Munn won’t be the only woman on the alien hunter’s to-kill list. She’s getting some company in […]