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EXCLUSIVE: Rowan Blanchard, 1 of nan stars of Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale spin-off/sequel series The Testaments, has signed connected to prima in The Drill, a acheronian drama from head Millicent Hailes (Perfect) that originates shooting successful Texas adjacent week.
Written by Keatyn Lee, The Drill centers astir what happens erstwhile an progressive shooter lockdown traps a precocious schoolhouse drill squad wrong their gym.
Producers connected nan task see Vince Jolivette (Spring Breakers, The Disaster Artist), Tyler Payne (Perfect, Speed nan Plow), Jiarui Guo (The Brutalist, Family Movie), and Douglass Riggs (Perfect, Speed nan Plow).
In The Testaments, led by One Battle After Another‘s Chase Infiniti, which premiered successful April and has already been renewed for a 2nd season, Blanchard plays Shunammite “Shunam” Hayes, a young female raised wrong nan elite sphere of nan near-future theocratic dictatorship known arsenic Gilead.
Seasoned for a young character — pinch 15 years of surface acquisition nether her loop while still successful her early 20s — Blanchard was antecedently seen starring other Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs successful TNT’s Snowpiercer. Additional credits see Hulu’s Crush, Peacock’s Poker Face, Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle successful Time, and a recurring domiciled connected ABC’s The Goldbergs. She is repped by Paradigm, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Hailes is simply a queer English head coming disconnected of her directorial debut Perfect, an indie play starring Julia Fox and Ashley Moore, which premiered astatine this year’s SXSW Film Festival. Otherwise champion known for her activity connected euphony videos for nan likes of Lil Yachty and Adam Lambert, she is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment.
