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The Handmaid’s Tale season four is coming in 2021 and a new cast member was just revealed!

Zawe Ashton, best known for her work in the Netflix projects Velvet Buzzsaw and Wanderlust and her work in Broadway’s Betrayal, is joining the cast for season four.

Series creator Bruce Miller told THR that Zawe “is going to play Moira’s girlfriend and an aid worker in Toronto.”

Bruce also talked about Mckenna Grace‘s role in the upcoming season. He said she “plays a young ‘wife,’ in the Gilead tradition. She’s so spectacular in the show. I’ve just been watching the first few episodes because I’m finally doing some editing, and she’s just wonderful. Watching her and [Elisabeth Moss] together, it’s great. June comes in contact with a lot of different people in the season, a lot more than usual, I would say.”

Also, Bruce said that Reed Birney is joining the show as “someone [from the world of] Gilead, who’s unexpectedly not Reed Birney-ish, but it’s been great to be able to build, and over episodes to build characters.”

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The Forty-Year-Old Version is coming!

The forthcoming film, which was directed, written by and co-starring Radha Blank, and produced by Lena Waithe, is set to be released on October 9 on Netflix.

Here’s a plot summary: “Radha, a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. But when she foils what seems like her last shot at success, she’s left with no choice but to reinvent herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime. The Forty-Year-Old Version follows Radha as she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater on a quest to find her true voice.”

The film won the Directing Prize at The 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

The movie also stars Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis, Haskiri Velazquez, Antonio Ortiz, TJ Atoms, Jacob Ming Trent, Stacey Sargeant, William Oliver Watkins, Meghan O’Neill, André Ward, Welker White and Reed Birney.

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Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge are starring on Broadway together in the new play 1984, based on the best-selling book, and the first photos from the show have been released!

The play follows the iconic characters Winston (Sturridge), Julia (Wilde) and O’Brien (Reed Birney) as they negotiate a world that believes, as the novel boldly exclaims: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

Tickets for the play are currently on sale through October 8.

Over the weekend, Olivia took to Twitter to praise the audience at her show. “Tonight’s #revisedtruth audience was on �”�. You are a ballsy bunch and I love you very much. Thank you for coming on the ride,” she wrote.

Olivia Wilde is set to make her Broadway debut in the upcoming stage adaptation of the classic dystopian novel 1984.

The 33-year-old actress will star alongside Tom Sturridge and Reed Birney in the play, which will have a strictly limited engagement with performances beginning on May 18 at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

The story of “1984,” which was written in 1948 by George Orwell, follows a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government suppresses all critical thought.

Olivia will play Julia while Tom is taking on the role of O’Brien and Reed will portray Winston Smith, according to Broadway.com.

“Deeply honored, and beyond excited to help tell this terrifyingly relevant story on Broadway this summer. Come check it out! #1984play,” Olivia tweeted after the news was announced.